HaSepher HaChum: Al HaTeror HaHitlera'i BeGermaniyah ["The Brown Book: on the Hitlerite terror in Germany."]

AUCTION 42 | Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 165
(HOLOCAUST).

HaSepher HaChum: Al HaTeror HaHitlera'i BeGermaniyah ["The Brown Book: on the Hitlerite terror in Germany."]

Hebrew translation from German. Photographic illustrations pp. 56. Clean copy with the exception of a thumbprint on the title. Original pictorial wrappers. 4to

Tel-Aviv: Eretz 1933

Est: $300 - $500
PRICE REALIZED $250
One of the earliest exposés on the brutality of the newly installed Nazi regime. On front cover, a picture of a wounded Jew, the caption below reads: "Rabbi Yonah Frenkel, one of the victims of the Nazi regime." Preface by Lord Marley, Chairman of the World Committee to Aid Victims of Hitler's Regime. Discusses at great length the burning of the Reichstag staged by the Nazis, the boycott of Jewish stores and conditions in concentration camps