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Fuks, Marian : Z DZIEJÓW WIELKIEJ KATASTROFY NARODU ZYDOWSKIEJ

Poznan; Wydawn Sorus, 1999

Hardbound. 8vo. 341, [68] pages. 25 cm. First edition. In Polish. Title roughly translates as: “The History of the Great Catastrophe of the Jewish Nation. ” Written by Marian Fuks, Jewish-Polish historian, researcher at the Jewish Historical Institute; this detailed volume analyzes the origins of Nazism and its genocidal ideology and describes the outbreak and course of World War II. It discusses the beginning of the persecution of the Jews (the development of anti-Semitic agitation in the press since 1935, proclaimed toleration of racist ideas) and their apogee in the ghettos and extermination in death camps, as well as the situation and fight of the Jews in the ghettos, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1944 and partisans in the allied armies in the Polish Army. With appendices on the Jewish underground press 1940-1943; Jews in the Allied armies fighting on the fronts of World War II; Estimated losses of the Jews in the Holocaust, and abundant (approximately 150 illustrations) , often shocking documentary material: photographs of people, examples of newspaper articles, a list of politicians and celebrities, announcements, images from the ghettos and death camps. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Poland. Jews - Poland - History - 20th century. Poland - Ethnic relations. Backstrip previously torn, repaired with tape. Otherwise fine. Very good + condition. (HOLO2-99-20)

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