Jan Laskowski. Zbrodnie Hitlerowskie Na Ziemiach Polski W Latach 1939-1945 [“Nazi Crimes in Polish Territories During the Years 1939-1945.”]

(HOLOCAUST).

Wydawnictw Kartograficznych

Warsaw, Poland

1962

Massive and bright 4-color map (scale 1:600,000) primarily in Polish with legend in English and other languages, featuring German-Nazi extermination and concentration camps and sites of mass executions. Specified are sites of executions of Polish and Soviet POW’s, labor camps for Jews and record of destruction of Jewish communities and villages; all within the boundaries of the General-Gouvernement.

WorldCat lists only two copies worldwide (NLI, BL), none in the US.

Map of hundreds of Nazi camps and execution sites in Poland during 1939-1945. Each camp or site is marked by a specific symbol, which is explained in Polish, French, English, German and Russian at the bottom left of the cartogram. Particularly striking is the contrast between the bright pastel pink and light blue colors which dominate the map and the skull and cross bones indicating the grizzly reality the map seeks to portray. The map, was compiled by the initiative of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites in Poland and based on the work by Stefan Guiard, Janusz Gumkowski and Kazimierz Leszczynski, authors of “War Crimes in Poland: Genocide 1939- 1945.” Based on the fact that the map was published in 1962 and is written in five languages, it would appear that it was utilized for the second round of Auschwitz Trials held in Germany from 1963-65 which prosecuted twenty-two Nazi Germans. Towards the bottom of the map, Jan Laskowski, the editor, records (in Polish): “ Attention, due to legibility, the map marks points that represent only some 10% of the crimes (which took place in Poland.)” Provenance: Avrom Sutzkever - Prof. Ruth Roskies-Wisse - The consignor.