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Wystawa Dzieł Zydowskich Artystów Plastyków Męczenników Niemieckiej Okupacji 1939–1945 [“Exhibition of Works of Jewish Artists, Martyrs of the German Occupation 1939-1945.”]

Auction 88 · Lot 129

Wystawa Dzieł Zydowskich Artystów Plastyków Męczenników Niemieckiej Okupacji 1939–1945 [“Exhibition of Works of Jewish Artists, Martyrs of the German Occupation 1939-1945.”]

Estimate
$300–$500
Hammer price
Not recorded

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author

(HOLOCAUST).

Place

Warsaw

Publication

1948

Description

Eight pages of illustrations. Text in Yiddish and Polish. Introduction by Jozef Sandel.

summary

Catalogue of an exhibition prepared by the Jewish Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts (a precursor to the ŻIH/The Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw). It was organized to accompany the commemoration of the 5th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The exhibition was held at 5, Tlomackie, the street where Warsaw’s Great Synagogue stood before it was blown up by the Nazis under the direction of Jurgen Stroop. See Elvira Grozinger & Magdalena Ruta, Under the Red Banner: Yiddish Culture in the Communist Countries in the Post-War Era (2008).
pp. 8, (8), 8. Brittle. Original printed wrappers. 8vo.
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