Majdanek (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. In Yiddish. 264, (6) pages. Pages are yellowed. 228 x 160 mm. Edition of 1000 copies. A few leaves detached. Spine damaged. Schiper was a great Jewish Polish historian, orientalist, Zionist, and in the 1920s a member of the Polish parliament. He was one of the most prominent Jews in Polish intelligencia between the wars. He studied at the universities of Krakow and Vienna . He completed his law degree in philosophy, and in 1907 earned a doctorate of law for his work on the economic situation of Polish Jews in the Middle Ages. In the 1930s he was regarded as one the greatest Polish-Jewish historians. In his studies of the Jews in the Middle Ages, he used the latest economic and sociological research methods. The great work of his life was to be "The History of the Jewish Economic Life," which would be the completion and continuation of Zvi Graetz 's enterprise, but the Holocaust interrupted his plans. In his research and books on Jewish culture, Schiffer sought to highlight the roots of the demand for cultural autonomy for Polish Jews. On the eve of World War II , Schiper intended to immigrate to Eretz Israel, which the British closed off to European Jews seeking to escape the rising antisemitism in Europe, but he never made it and was murdered in blood soaked Europe together with millions of other Jews. He was first transported with the other Jews to the Warsaw ghetto, where he worked at the Judenrat Archives, and continued to write his research. During the deportation and rebellion, Schiper sought to escape, but was captured and sent to Majdanek, where he was apparently murdered in the great massacre of the Lublin camps in November 1943. According to another version, he perished in the ghetto during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. He is mentioned many times in Emmanuel Ringelblum's notebooks.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. In Yiddish. 221 pages. Pages are yellowed and brittle. 228 x 160 mm. Edition of 1500 copies. First 2 leaves detached and chipped. A penciled line appears occasionally in the margin of some paragraphs Schiper was a great Jewish Polish historian, orientalist, Zionist, and in the 1920s a member of the Polish parliament. He was one of the most prominent Jews in Polish intelligencia between the wars. He studied at the universities of Krakow and Vienna . He completed his law degree in philosophy, and in 1907 earned a doctorate of law for his work on the economic situation of Polish Jews in the Middle Ages. In the 1930s he was regarded as one the greatest Polish-Jewish historians. In his studies of the Jews in the Middle Ages, he used the latest economic and sociological research methods. The great work of his life was to be "The History of the Jewish Economic Life," which would be the completion and continuation of Zvi Graetz 's enterprise, but the Holocaust interrupted his plans. In his research and books on Jewish culture, Schiffer sought to highlight the roots of the demand for cultural autonomy for Polish Jews. On the eve of World War II , Schiper intended to immigrate to Eretz Israel, which the British closed off to European Jews seeking to escape the rising antisemitism in Europe, but he never made it and was murdered in blood soaked Europe together with millions of other Jews. He was first transported with the other Jews to the Warsaw ghetto, where he worked at the Judenrat Archives, and continued to write his research. During the deportation and rebellion, Schiper sought to escape, but was captured and sent to Majdanek, where he was apparently murdered in the great massacre of the Lublin camps in November 1943. According to another version, he perished in the ghetto during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. He is mentioned many times in Emmanuel Ringelblum's notebooks.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. In Yiddish. 221 pages. Pages are yellowed and brittle. 228 x 160 mm. Edition of 1500 copies. First two leaves detached. Schiper was a great Jewish Polish historian, orientalist, Zionist, and in the 1920s a member of the Polish parliament. He was one of the most prominent Jews in Polish intelligencia between the wars. He studied at the universities of Krakow and Vienna . He completed his law degree in philosophy, and in 1907 earned a doctorate of law for his work on the economic situation of Polish Jews in the Middle Ages. In the 1930s he was regarded as one the greatest Polish-Jewish historians. In his studies of the Jews in the Middle Ages, he used the latest economic and sociological research methods. The great work of his life was to be "The History of the Jewish Economic Life," which would be the completion and continuation of Zvi Graetz 's enterprise, but the Holocaust interrupted his plans. In his research and books on Jewish culture, Schiffer sought to highlight the roots of the demand for cultural autonomy for Polish Jews. On the eve of World War II , Schiper intended to immigrate to Eretz Israel, which the British closed off to European Jews seeking to escape the rising antisemitism in Europe, but he never made it and was murdered in blood soaked Europe together with millions of other Jews. He was first transported with the other Jews to the Warsaw ghetto, where he worked at the Judenrat Archives, and continued to write his research. During the deportation and rebellion, Schiper sought to escape, but was captured and sent to Majdanek, where he was apparently murdered in the great massacre of the Lublin camps in November 1943. According to another version, he perished in the ghetto during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. He is mentioned many times in Emmanuel Ringelblum's notebooks.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. In Yiddish. 264, (6) pages. Pages are yellowed. 228 x 160 mm. Edition of 1500 copies. A few leaves detached. Wrappers bound in. semi detached in boards. Schiper was a great Jewish Polish historian, orientalist, Zionist, and in the 1920s a member of the Polish parliament. He was one of the most prominent Jews in Polish intelligencia between the wars. He studied at the universities of Krakow and Vienna . He completed his law degree in philosophy, and in 1907 earned a doctorate of law for his work on the economic situation of Polish Jews in the Middle Ages. In the 1930s he was regarded as one the greatest Polish-Jewish historians. In his studies of the Jews in the Middle Ages, he used the latest economic and sociological research methods. The great work of his life was to be "The History of the Jewish Economic Life," which would be the completion and continuation of Zvi Graetz 's enterprise, but the Holocaust interrupted his plans. In his research and books on Jewish culture, Schiffer sought to highlight the roots of the demand for cultural autonomy for Polish Jews. On the eve of World War II , Schiper intended to immigrate to Eretz Israel, which the British closed off to European Jews seeking to escape the rising antisemitism in Europe, but he never made it and was murdered in blood soaked Europe together with millions of other Jews. He was first transported with the other Jews to the Warsaw ghetto, where he worked at the Judenrat Archives, and continued to write his research. During the deportation and rebellion, Schiper sought to escape, but was captured and sent to Majdanek, where he was apparently murdered in the great massacre of the Lublin camps in November 1943. According to another version, he perished in the ghetto during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. He is mentioned many times in Emmanuel Ringelblum's notebooks.

46 SS., 1 Bl. Mit 10 ganzseitigen Illustrationen von G. Markarch Ill. Obrosch. Die Umschlagzeichnung stammt von Bruno Furch. - Papierbedingt gebräunt, sonst gut erhalten.

Softcover. Condition: g to von-. First edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 6"). 93pp. + 13 leaves of double sided photographic plates (interleaved, and unpaginated). Illustrated tan, red and black wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. Photographic b/w frontispiece. Spóldzielnia Wydawnicza "Czytelnik." Possibly an earlier publication on lower quality paper compare to a slightly smaller publication by the "Library of the Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR" (Biblioteczka Zwiazku Patriotów Polskich w ZSRR), with the same text in different layout. That publication issued on higher quality paper and with twenty-eight photogravures, three more than in this publication, with twelve photographs appearing in both publications though in lesser quality here. Court Proceedings of the Polish-Soviet Special Criminal Court established in Lublin in August 1944, in order to investigate the crimes committed by the Germans in the Majdanek extermination camp. Despite the importance of this document, it must be mentioned that the Commission made erroneous assumptions regarding the duration of the camp and the number of people killed at Majdanek. The Publishing cooperative "Czytelnik" was established behind Soviet front lines in 1944. It became the first post-World War II. publisher in Poland. The total numbers of the victims is still controversial: In this report, 1.5 million victims of different nationalities were counted, however, according to the latest researches, there were 79,000 victims, 59,000 of whom were Jews (See: Kranz, T.: "Bookkeeping of Death and Prisoner Mortality at Majdanek." pp. 81-110. In: Silberklang, D. (Ed.): Yad Vashem Studies. Vol. 35:1. Jerusalem, 2007]. Illustrated with 25 pages of b/w photographic reproductions (including a frontispiece), on 13 double-sided interleaved plates, altogether thirty-two photographs depicting members of the Commission, Nazi guards (now prisoners) who used to run the camp, and survivors alike testifying before the Commission. Also includes views of the actual concentration camp, piles of suitcases, Zyklon B poison gas pellets, gas chambers, ovens, and survivors amid corpses. Wrappers with some chipping, rubbing, creasing and/or closed tears to extremities. Small stain on the back cover, and side edge of book block. Verso of frontispiece with a vertical crease. Some pages throughout with some light age toning or small water spots. Overall text and images clear and vibrant. Wrappers in good, interior in very good- condition overall. *One of two editions of this work published in Moscow and Krakow in 1945. It is not certain which was released first. Each has different wrappers, size, pagination and publishers.

Brief (1 S. 4° mit gold-rot gedrucktem Briefkopf DEUTSCHE STAATSBIBLIOTHEK) mit Ort, Datum, eigenhändiger Unterschrift in Tinte signiert Berlin, Unter den Linden 8, 26.I.1964 - an Genosse ANDRE GREVENRATH ( Colaborador, Komitee der Antifaschistischen Widerstandskämpfer der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, ehemaliger Häftling im KZ Sachsenhausen) mit Glückwünschen zum 50. Geburtstag.