We Think of You. **The State of the Jews in Czechoslovakia in 1942**

(HOLOCAUST) RIPKA, Dr. Hubert. We Think of You. London, published by the Czechoslovka Maccabi; New York (1942) copied by the Czechoslovak Information Service. Mimeographed from the original typed sheets. 15 leaves. Stapled at upper left (once upon a time for binding), but now completely disbound. Dusting on the front and rear pages. FAIR to NEAR-GOOD condition. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their 12mm "LC" perforated stamp on front cover bottom, plus a rubber stamp for reception of the work in May 1942 on the back of the front page; also a surplus rubber stamp on the last page. [++] "The broadcast last September 18 [1941] by Hubert Ripka, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the Czech government-in-exile, in which he urged Czechs to maintain their solidarity with their Jewish fellow citizens, appears today in booklet form under the auspices of the Czechoslovakian Maccabi here. Entitled We Think of You, the booklet contains a summary of anti-Jewish legislation and persecution in Czechoslovakia under the Nazis. It appeals to Jews all over the world to support the Czech cause which is also the fight of Czechoslovak Jewry. -- "Czech Maccabis Issue Booklet Recounting Nazi Terror in Czechoslovakia"--Jewish Telegraph Agency, Dec 18, 1941 (online, their site). [+=]  Rupka left Czechoslovakia as a refugee for government in exile in Paris; when the French were defeated, he moved on to London, where he delivered this enormously sympathetic and supportive address and published its text. As stated in the work, the speech was made to the "humiliated and persecuted Jewish inhabitants in the temporarily enslaved Czechoslovakia". He said "Czechoslovak Jews, we think of you with sincere sympathy in these days. We know of your sufferings and we carefully assemble all the data about the way in which you are persecuted and the people who persecute you We know everything, even the details. We cannot help you for the present. But we tell the world about your sufferings and we assure you that they will not be forgotten. ".…