Lot 410
"A German Death Factory in Lublin" – Account of the Majdanek Extermination Camp, with Photographs – Moscow, 1945 – First Edition
Niemiecka fabryka śmierci w Lublinie [A German Death Factory in Lublin], by Eugeniusz Krieger. Moscow: Wydawnictwo Literatury w Językach Obcych, 1944, Polish. First Edition.
An early account of the Majdanek concentration and extermination camp (near Lublin), by the Russian war correspondent Evgeny Krieger (1906-1983), who accompanied the Red Army units who liberated the camp. Illustrated with 8 reproductions of photographs – the crematorium, the barracks, a mound of victims' shoes, a written confession by the Nazi officer Hilmar Moser, and more.
First edition, printed in Polish and circulated during the battles for the liberation of Poland (the original Russian work was published as an article in the Russian newspaper "Izvestia").
38, [2] pp., approx. 14 cm. Good condition. Stains to cover. Some stains to pages. Minor creases. Upper corners bent. Perforation to upper margin of about half the pages (no damage to text or photographs). Perforations and tears to spine. Cover loose.
