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VUGHT, POORT VAN DE HEL: OORLOGSHERINNERINGEN VAN 'N JOOD

Hilversum: "aldus",, 1945

1st edition. Original illustrated 4-color paper wrappers, 8vo, 77 pages ; 24 cm. In the original Dutch. With the dramatic cover showing a cartooned SS officer consuming thousands of Jewish civilians, bright red blood dripping from the title, and a bright yellow Jewish star ID surrounding the final word “Jood. ” Title translates as: “Vught, Gate of Hell: War memoirs of a Jew. ” Vught, also known as Hertogenbosch, “was a Nazi concentration camp located in Vught near the city of 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. Herzogenbusch was the only concentration camp run directly by the SS in western Europe outside of Germany. The camp was first used in 1943 and held 31, 000 prisoners. 749 prisoners died in the camp, and the others were transferred to other camps shortly before the camp was liberated by the Allied Forces in 1944” (Wikipedia, 2015) . SUBJECT(S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews. Persecutions. Concentratiekampen. Joden. Tweede Wereldoorlog. OCLC lists 16 copies worldwide, but only 4 in the US (Yale, US Holocaust Museum, Harvard, Ohio State) . Heavy foxing to cover, as often seen on Dutch covers of this vintage, otherwise Very Good Condition. (Holo2-126-19) xxx

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