Crimes Hitlériens: Grand Palais Exposition.

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 135

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Crimes Hitlériens: Grand Palais Exposition.

<<First edition.>> French text. Photographic illustrations throughout, especially relating to the French Resistance. With photographs from the Struthof concentration camp, tallies of deportations of French Jews, tallies of the numbers of forced laborers from France, etc. pp. (32). Original pictorial wrappers. Sm. folio.

(Paris: 1945)

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,400

Catalogue of a huge exhibition sponsored by the newly liberated French government and held in Paris’s Grand-Palais, from June 10 until July 31, 1945. Includes chronology of the internment of Jews in the French camps of Pithiviers, Beuane-la-Rolande and Drancy, in the occupied zone; and at Gurs in Southwestern France under the rule of Vichy. It also provides a tally of deportations from Drancy to Germany.