Reca Stone (2 results)

Pamphlet. Condition: Good. 34 pp, card covers. Covers browned, small rust mark, age marked, vertical fold mark throughout (slightly split at edges). Crease and fold marks to pages, pages and covers bumped at bottom edge. Still solid and uncommon. Inscribed on first page by the author to Lily French.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Stone, Reca. "Revolt in the Ghetto." Published by the United Emergency Committee for European Jewry. Sydney, 1944. 6x4 inches, 32pp, three photos. Good shape.  Unfortunately in copying/scanning the pamphlet for free distribution the covers came off, though they are present.  Provenance: Library of Congress Pamphlet Collections, processed by the library 19 April 1945. Two small rubber stamps on cover and a surolus rubber stamp on the rear cover.  $250.00 "The former Jewish quarter in Warsaw is no longer in existence --Jurgen Stroop, liquidator of the Warsaw Ghetto. "There will be a dawn."--Dorothy Thompson, 1943 Dorothy Thompson got that one wrong--or so at least got the "dawn" wrong when it comes to the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943.  There wouldn't be a dawn, there, mainly because there would be hardly any Jews, or Warsaw.  [This battle took place about three years after the Nazis established it as a means of control for the city s 400,000 or so Jews. In the intermediary years hundreds of thousands of Jews had been deported (that is, sent to the concentration camps to be exterminated or worked to death), so that by the time of the Uprising only 60,000 people remained in the Ghetto.  And by this time there was no doubt in anyone s mind who lived there (and perhaps too in Warsaw as a whole) what the euphemism of deportation actually meant.  The battle started off well for the home defence (the ZOB) but, ultimately, with little access to resource and with nowhere to actually retreat or regroup in the few acres that remained of the original Ghetto, whoever was left in the Ghetto were either killed or captured by 16 May.  The German commander, SS Brigadefuhrer Jurgen Stroop reported on that day that the former Jewish quarter in Warsaw is no longer in existence .] This small pamphlet was written by Reca Stone in 1944 on the Jewish counter-attack against the Nazis in the ghetto of Warsaw. It is one of not-many that documented not only the resistance in Warsaw, but also of the wholesale liquidation going on in that city and in the concentration camps, in general.