Ha’Album Ha’Shachor - The Black Album.

AUCTION 79 | Thursday, November 15th, 2018 at 1:00 PM

The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Ha’Album Ha’Shachor - The Black Album.

Complete set of ten postcards depicting Nazi crimes. 16-page introduction in Hebrew and English and with synopsis in French. Each photographic postcard bears descriptive caption. Each card 4 x 5.5 inches, perforated (few detached). Bound into original printed wrappers, lightly stained. Oblong 16mo.

Tel Aviv: Anti-Nazi League, April, 1940

Est: $1,500 - $2,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,500

<<Likely the earliest visual documentation of Nazi crimes against Jews in Europe.>> This scarce booklet was published by the Anti-Nazi League of Palestine in order to publicize the extent of German atrocities in Europe, specifically in Poland. “Hitlerism means return to the savagery of the Middle Ages… The Black Album contains the first series of pictures disclosing Nazi atrocities in Poland. The Black Album gives a vivid description of the Nazi regime and its cruel systems. Everybody is hereby enabled to unmask Hitlerism by sending the postcards of the Album to his friends and acquaintances all over the world.”