Budapest: Faust, 1946. In contemporary half cloth. 299 p. Inscribed. Interviews include Antal István, Endre László, Imrédy Béla, Szálasi Ferenc. More
Praha (Prague): KSC [Komunistická Strana Ceskoslovenska] (M. Schulz), [1946]. With 86 black and white photographs. Typographical layout by Zdenek Rossmann. First edition. Text in Czech. In publisher’s photographic wrappers. (8), (52), (4) p. An early post-Holocaust publication, a photo-book showing the horror of the Austrian concentration camp, Mauthausen-Gusen... More
Moskwa: Wydawnictwo Literatury w Jezykach Obcych, 1944. First Polish edition. With 13 photographic illustrations. In publisher’s, illustrated wrappers. 22, (2) p. and 4 plates. First Polish edition of Simonov’s report on the Red Army’s discovery of the Nazi death camp at Majdanek. With 11 reproductions of the famous images, taken..... More
Krakow. 52 p. with photos. This is probably the first post-war album devoted to the Nazi Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Published three years after the conflict came to an end. In Polish, English, French, Russian. More
![Item #1401 [Cover title:] Igy elnek a nok a Harmadik Birodalomban. [This is How Women Live in the...](/pictures/thumb/1401.jpg?v=1524844929)
[Budapest]: [Published privately by István Solte, printed at Viktória nyomda], [1934]. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers, printed in red and black. Publisher’s advertisement on the verso of the front and rear covers, printed in red. 31, (1) p. Very early anti-fascist propaganda publication, with a photo-montage on the cover..... More
Moszkva (Moscow): Idegennyelvű Irodalmi Kiadó, 1944. With 13 photographic illustrations. First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s, illustrated wrappers. 22, (2) p. and 4 plates. First Hungarian edition of Simonov’s report on the Red Army’s discovery of the Nazi death camp at Majdanek. With 11 reproductions of the famous images, taken after..... More
![Item #26 [Smierc Miasta.]Śmierć Miasta. Pamietniki -- 1939–1945. Opracował Jerzy Waldorff....](/pictures/thumb/26.jpg?v=1557482755)
Warszawa (Warsaw): Spóldzelnia Wydawnicza, 1946. First edition. In original illustrated cover, designed by Maria Hiszpańska(-Neumann). 204, (4) p. Władysław “Władek” Szpilman (1911–2000) was a Polish-Jewish pianist, composer and memoirist. He became world-famous by Roman Polanski’s Oscar-winner film, “The Pianist” (2002) which is based on this memoir “Śmierć Miasta”, wherein Szpilman..... More
![Item #346 Cicha Noc. Piosenka Walc. [Silent Night. Waltz Song.]. Władysław –...](/pictures/thumb/346.jpg?v=1557483590)
Krakowie [Krakow]: Czytelnika, 1951. First edition. Cover illustrated. 4 p. Władysław “Władek” Szpilman (1911–2000) was a Polish-Jewish pianist, composer and memoirist. He is renowned by Roman Polanski’s film “The Pianist” which is based on his memoirs, recounting how he survived the Holocaust. Szpilman studied as a pianist in Warsaw..... More
![Item #1283 Kwiaty Oswiecimia. [Flowers of Auschwitz.]. Zinowij Tolkaczew](/pictures/thumb/1283.jpg?v=1503933951)
Krakow: Drukarnie Narodowa, 1945. With 25 reproductions of Tolkatchev’s drawings. First edition. In publisher’s illustrated wrappers. 13, (3) p., a 12 illustrated plates. First edition of this collection of Tolkatchev’s illustrated reportage on Auschwitz and its liberation. One of the earliest illustrated books about the Holocaust. Zinowij Tolkaczew (Zinovii..... More
Budapest: 1939. First edition. In original paper. 576 p + 1 loose folded insert. The work is a comprehensive historical study of the laws relating to Jews in Hungary from the time of their emancipation in 1867 and the "Numerous Clauses" in 1920, through the passage of the anti-Jewish laws..... More
![Item #2239 M[agyar]. Kir[ályi]. Belügyminiszter. 577.600/1944. II. B. M. szám. Mentesítő...](/pictures/thumb/2239.jpeg?v=1626093851)
Budapest: Magyar Királyi Belügyminisztérium (Magyar Királyi Állami Nyomda), November 29, 1944. Unbound as published, stiched. Signed by the secretary of the Minister of the Interior. With the stamp of the Royal Ministry of Interior of Hungary. 14 p. The official list of 600 Hungarian Jews exempted from the “race laws”..... More
Budapest: Hechaluc [Groszmann Sándor]. 1945]. Cover design and the linocut illustrations by Shraga Weil. Only edition. In original illustrated hard paper. With the original white dust cover. 216 p. One of the earliest book about the Hungarian Holocaust. Published by Hechaluc (Hehalutz), the Zionist resistant movement, whose legendary headquarters was..... More
![Item #2438 [A Certification of the Swedish Royal Legation.] A Svéd Királyi Követség igazolja,...](/pictures/thumb/2438.jpg?v=1637156523)
Budapest: Dated on November 17, 1944. 1 page, typed document bearing Wallenberg's stamped signature, the stamp of the Königlich Schwedische Gesandtschaft in Budapest, and a signature of probably the Swedish Ambassador, Carl Ivan Danielsson in green ink. An exceptionally rare Hungarian Holocaust document with Raoul Wallenberg's stamped signature. Typed..... More
Budapest: (Hasomér Hacair). (1946). In an original folder. 10 plate with text plate. Ten plates with printed illustrations by Shraga Weil, documenting the holocaust period and life in the camps. Shraga Weil (Ferenc Ferdinánd; 1918–2009) was a Hungarian born Israeli painter. He studied at the Academy of Art in Prague..... More
Budapest: Vida Miklós, [ca. 1949]. First edition.Loose, as issued. Title and table of contents in Hungarian and English. In publisher’s green paper portfolio. 32 plates. 32 lithographs by István Zádor, depicting the work of the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Hungary, after WWII. István Zádor (1882–1963) was a...... More
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. One of the earliest published eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz concentration camp. The striking cover image of crossing barbed-wire fences, with the handwritten text..... More