Item #736 Oswiecim. Camp of Death. (Underground Report.) Foreword by Florence J. Harriman. [At head of title:] Underground Poland Speaks. Natalia Zarembina, foreword, cover design, Florence Jaffray Harriman, Teresa Zarnowerówna.
Oswiecim. Camp of Death. (Underground Report.) Foreword by Florence J. Harriman. [At head of title:] Underground Poland Speaks.
Oswiecim. Camp of Death. (Underground Report.) Foreword by Florence J. Harriman. [At head of title:] Underground Poland Speaks.
Oswiecim. Camp of Death. (Underground Report.) Foreword by Florence J. Harriman. [At head of title:] Underground Poland Speaks.
A Very Early Eyewitness Account of Auschwitz

Oswiecim. Camp of Death. (Underground Report.) Foreword by Florence J. Harriman. [At head of title:] Underground Poland Speaks.

New York: “Poland Fighters” Polish Labor Group, (1944). First English edition, second printing. With two facsimile illustrations. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, designed by Teresa Żarnowerówna. 48 p. In fine condition.

One of the earliest published eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz concentration camp. The striking cover image of crossing barbed-wire fences, with the handwritten text of the title is by Teresa Żarnowerówna.

Originally published clandestine in Poland in 1942 under the title “Obóz śmierci”.

With two full page illustrations, one is the facsimile of the original, Polish edition’s title-page the other is the map of the concentration camps throughout Poland.

Written by Natalia Zarembina (1895–1973) the Polish journalist who was the wife of Zygmunt Zaremba the Polish socialist activist, founder of the underground political party in the occupied Poland “Polska Partia Socjalistyczna - Wolność, Równość, Niepodległość” (Polish Socialist Party – Freedom, Equality, Independence), who published “Obóz śmierci”.

The book based on the testimonies of three escapees from Auschwitz: Eryk Lipiński (1908–1991) the Polish graphic artist, resistant, who was involved in production of false documents, deported in August 1940; Henryk Świątkowski (1896–1970) the Polish lawyer, who was also deported in August 1940; and Edward Bugajski (1903–1956) the Polish Socialist activist, who participated in the defense of Warsaw in 1939 and later the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz on May 29, 1941. The book reports about the life in Auschwitz until early 1942, that is the reason why the mass extermination of the Jews is not mentioned, and it is focusing mostly on the suffering of the imprisoned Polish people.

The designer of the cover, Teresa Żarnowerówna (1895–1950), was a Polish avant-garde artist, painter, sculptor, scenographer and architect. Żarnowerówna studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts, exhibited in 1923 in Wilno (Vilnius) at the “New Art Exhibition”, the first constructivist manifestation in Poland, and in Berlin in the gallery “Der Sturm”. Żarnowerówna together with Mieczysław Szczuka was the founder of the Warsaw avant-garde artist’s group “Blok” and co-editor of the associated art magazine “Blok”, and also “Dźwignia”. She left Poland in 1937 and settled down in New York.

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