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Zarembina, Natalia; Florence J. Harriman.Cover by Teresa Zarnower : OSWIECIM, CAMP OF DEATH (UNDERGROUND REPORT)

New York, N. Y. , "poland Fights," Polish Labor Group, 1944

1st English Languge Edition. Original illustrated publisher’s wrappers designed by Teresa Zarnower. 8vo. 48 pages. 21 cm. Published March 1944 (A second edition appeared 2 months later, in May 1944). Two facsimile illustrations. At head of title: Underground Poland speaks. One of the earliest published eyewitness accounts of life in Hitler's concentration camps, written by a Polish Underground Labor "historian," experienced in the underground struggle, who drew his material from actual contact with persons who survived and saw others suffer. Translated from Polish underground labor publication. Translation of: Obóz smierci, by Natalia Zarembina. (1895-1973) a Polish journalist and wife of Zygmunt Zaremba who founded the underground "Polska Partia Socjalistyczna - Wolnosc, Rownosc, Niepodleglosc" (Polish Socialist Party - Freedom, Equality, Independence), under Nazi occupation. It was his party which originally published. "Oboz Smierci".With facsimile of original title-page: Obóz smierci ... 1942. Publication sponsored by National C.I O. War Relief Committee. A horrifying first hand account of the occupation of Warsaw and the experience of concentration camps; the experience of the forced labor annex of Oswiecim is elaborated in detail. With map of concentration camps throughout Poland. An annex piece outlines the types of concentration camps: General Concentration Camps (“one of the oldest and most notorious is that at Oswiecim, which has recently been greatly expanded … A section of this camp has been converted into the so called 'camp of death'. ”) , forced labor camps (mainly filled with the deported Polish peasants) , concentration camps for clergy, concentration camps for women, concentration camps for Jews (“These camps have been established in conjunction with the Nazi campaign to liquidate the European Jews. Some of them are simply places of execution where Jews from Poland and the rest of Europe are asphyxiated, electrocuted, and machine-gunned. ”) , camps for 'improvement of the race' (teenagers – German and abducted Poles – who represent strict 'nordic' characteristics are kept in camps for forced copulation and reproduction) , camps for 'correction of youth' (little information … their inmates are Polish boys and girls) , Concentration camps for children so called 'educational institutes' (Polish children under 12 are seized in great numbers and subjected to the Nazi process of Germanization). The documentation is based on testimony from three escapees from Auschwitz. One was Eryk Lipinski (1908-1991) a Polish graphic artist arrested for producing false documents for the resistance (deported in August 1940); Henryk Swiatkowski (1896-1970)a Polish lawyer, (also deported in August 1940); and Edward Bugajski (1903-1956) the Polish Socialist fighter who defended Warsaw in 1939 and then later was part of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, (deported in May 1941). The book details life in Auschwitz through early 1942, prior to the start of the mass exterminations at the camp.The cover artist, Teresa Zarnower (aka Zarnowerowna, 1895-1950), was a Polish avant-garde artist and architect who studied at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts. She had exhibited in 1923 at the "New Art Exhibition" in Vilna, the first constructivist show in Poland, as well as at the "Der Sturm" gallery in Berlin . She was co-founder of the Warsaw avant-garde artist's group "Blok" and co-editor of its magazine "Blok." She fled for New York in 1937.Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945 - Poland. Germany; political history and theory; 20th century; Third Reich; home politics; law, judicature, trials, oppression, concentration camps. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) . Light wear at corners, about Very Good Condition. Important. (HOLO2-113-54A)

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