88 174 (HOLOCAUST). KZ - Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern [“Photo Report from Five Concentration Camps.”] FIRST EDITION. German text. 44 black-and-white photographs. pp. (32). Original printed wrappers, light wear. Lg. 4to. n.p., American War Information Unit, (1945). $1500-2000 ❧ “This book… may represent the single most significant use of photography as a witness in the medium’s history” (Martin Parr, The Photobook: A History, Vol. I, p. 194). This important volume, the first of its kind, was distributed in Germany by the American War Information Unit at the conclusion of World War II in order to impress upon the civilian population the severity of the war crimes committed by the Nazis in the name of the German people. The concentration camps represented within are: Buchenwald, Belsen, Gardelegen, Nordhausen and Ohrdruf. The final images are of General Dwight Eisenhower witnessing the horrifying sights found in Ohrdruf. Lot 174 Lot 175 Lot 176 175 (HOLOCAUST). Maps of Destiny. Profusely illustrated with fine, crisp designs by WALTER HERZ. pp. 16. Original color illustrated wrappers. 16mo. London, Williams, Lea & Co., Ltd., 1946. $400-600 ❧ Focusing on the emigration of surviving European Jewry to Eretz Israel and the present economic conditions to be found there. 176 (HOLOCAUST). František Reichentál. Arbeit Macht Frei. Sixteen illustrated plates. Introduction in Slovak and English by Vojtech Winterstein. One of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the artist. Original pictorial wrappers, bound with ribbon, light wear. Folio. Bratislava, 1946. $400-600 ❧ This portfolio of drawings chronicles the barbarity of life as experienced in the Nazi-run concentration camps. A powerful work by the Jewish-Slovak artist František Reichentál (1895-1971).