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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oblong 12mo. (25 cm.) photo album unpaged [22 leaves with twenty-two captioned 5 x 3" photos affixed with photo corners, each with its own tissue guard]. Stiff rRed cloth covers decorated with white letters and with white and gilt decorations, the whole bound with a gold cord with red wooden ends. Front cover has a couple of dampstains and is slightly wavy from moisture damage, all photos in fine condition, all tissue guards present and in very good condition, binding cord intact, else near fine with no internal markings. Laid in are three postcards: one of Unho??-Wilsonovo Square showing the church, one showing the tower at the entrance to Charles Bridge, the third showing the castle at Prague at night. Contained within the walls of the "small fortress" Theresienstadt, and formerly a resort for the Czech nobility, Terezín became notorious as a Nazi concentration camp, housing over 150,000 Jews during World War II. Though intended as a temporary holding area before its inmates were sent to extermination camps such as Auschwitz, about 33,000 died while living there because of appalling conditions. Its mostly Czech inmates included noted scholars, artists, musicians, and 15,000 children, only 150 of whom survived. This rare album is a guide to the buildings of the camp with photos showing, among other things, the torture chamber, crematorium, solitary confinement cells for women, the gallows, and the cemetery. aPPROXIMATE DATE DETERMINED FROM A PENCIL INSCRIPTION ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER WHICH HAS 1948. A very rare find, especially in such good condition!