The Extermination of Polish Jews - Album of Pictures. Foreword by historian Philip Friedman. Introduction by Gershon Taffet

AUCTION 38 | Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art

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The Extermination of Polish Jews - Album of Pictures. Foreword by historian Philip Friedman. Introduction by Gershon Taffet

More than 250 photographic illustrations. Captioned in Polish, Russian, English, French, Yiddish and Hebrew ff. (21), 104, (15). Original soft wrappers, front cover printed white on black, tattered. Large oblong 4to

Lodz: for The Central Jewish Historical Committee in Poland 1945

Est: $600 - $900

PRICE REALIZED $700

As pointed out in the Introduction, many of the photographs in the collection here were taken by the Nazis themselves: "It is characteristic for the mentality of these murderers, that they had a general liking for keeping 'charming' keepsakes of their criminal and cruel activities. The most popular form was to register their 'achievements' by taking amateur photographs."