Holocaust: Dance of Death Against the Jews.

AUCTION 87 | Thursday, January 16th, 2020 at 1:00pm

"K2" Online Sale: Hebrew & Judaic Printed Books

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Lot 156

(HOLOCAUST).

Holocaust: Dance of Death Against the Jews.

A hand-made volume. Pages are large facsimiles of what appears to be an original Manuscripts. Calligraphic text in English with much use of Hebrew and Yiddish. Illustrated throughout. Heavy wooden covers, front with raised wood carving of arm tattooed with the number 699002. Much of the text is written in a Gothic-style font. The composer of this volume is unidentified. ff. (62). Pages photographed from original version and pasted down on paper. Heavy wooden boards appear to be recycled from cabinet doors, connected to binding by hinges. Elephant folio.

n.p: n.d

Est: $400 - $600

PRICE REALIZED $300

<<Likely a unique volume.>> This highly unusual tome memorializes the Holocaust through various texts and accompanying hand-drawn artwork. The first 41 pages are dedicated to describing the horrors of each of the concentration camps. The camps are first listed in alphabetical order and multiple pages of text and illustrations are dedicated to each one; some texts are taken from survivors’ own words or previously published literature (e.g. Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s poem “Babi Yar”), others appear to be original. The rest of the volume is dedicated to a variety of related topics, also memorialized in text and illustrations, including the Warsaw Ghetto and events that followed the war.