Collection of documents related to the Kenéz family – Dr. Lajos Kenéz, his wife, his daughter and her spouse, Dr. Andor Gergely. Oradea, 1920s-40s.
Collection includes: *Documents related to Dr. Lajos Kenéz, a Jewish doctor who worked in the Jewish hospital in Oradea (Romania), and was a prominent figure in the Jewish congregation of this city. The documents present the involvement of the Kenéz family in the congregation's life. Among the documents are receipts for donations to Hevra Kadisha, the synagogue, an orphanage and various Jewish organizations. * Documents and letters to and from Dr. Andor Gergely related to the suspension of his Doctor's License following the occupation of Oradea by the Hungarians in 1940. Amongst the documents are recommendations by various people to renew his license, emphasizing his loyalty to the Hungarian government. * Documents concerning the Jewish hospital in Oradea, and mainly official appeals by the hospital's doctors. *Additional printed items of the 1940s such as the first issue of the anti-Semitic paper Harc edited by Bosnyák Zoltán (May 1944) and a poster to the Hungarian soldiers following the dismissal of General Miklos Horthy by the Nazis in 1944 and the appointment of Ferenc Szálasi as the Hungarian prime minister. Lot of approx. 190 items. Sizes and conditions vary.

The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland. London: Hutchinson, [1943]. English.
This pamphlet constitutes the first official report about the Holocaust. Jan Karski-Kozielski was a Polish Government emissary in Nazi-occupied Poland who bribed his way into a German concentration camp and witnessed first-hand the mass extermination of Jews. The report, written in 1942 and printed in 1943 on behalf of the exiled Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in London, contains the full text of a speech delivered to the United Nations in December 1942 that announces the reality of the Holocaust to the world, and additionally the joint UN declaration issued one week later. Printed in a small print run and never officially distributed in the period, with most copies destroyed.
The contents are divided into three parts:
1. Report about the state of the Jews in Poland, by Edward Raczyński, the Foreign Minister of the exiled Polish government: , "In the hope that the civilized world will draw the appropriate conclusion, the Polish Government desire to bring to the notice of the public, by means of the present White Paper, these renewed German efforts at mass extermination, with the employment of fresh horrifying methods."
2. Declaration of the United Nations dated December 17, 1942, according to which the attention of the governments of the Allied Forces "was drawn to numerous reports from Europe which [reported] that the German authorities do not only refrain from granting basic human rights to people of the Jewish race in all the territories under their barbaric rule, [but] currently manipulate the intentions that Hitler often repeated, to exterminate the Jewish People in Europe… [Governments] reconfirm their decision to ensure that those responsible for these crimes will not evade retaliation, and continue to take steps to [achieve] this goal."
3. Speech by the Polish Foreign Minister broadcast in December 1942, in which he calls upon the UN governments and the public to admit to the tragedy occurring in Europe and to take action.
16 pp printed in red and black, 21.5 cm. Stapled as issued in original self-wrappers. Near Fine condition. Minimal stains and rusting to the staples. Scarce.

1.Exterminacion de los Judios en Polonia / Extermination of Polish
Jews / Churban fun poylishn yidntum, introduction by I.L. Hamburg [Buenos Aires?], [2nd half of 1940s]. Spanish, English and Yiddish.
Book in album-format, including numerous photos of the holocaust period, depicting the extermination of Polish Jews. 19.5X29.5 cm. Fair condition. Stains and creases, restored binding.
2." El Male Rachamim Shochem BaMeromim". Cultura printing press, Buenos Aires, [mid 1940s]. Hebrew, Yiddish and Spanish. Booklet with "Hazkarat Neshamot "prayer in memory of the holocaust victims. Printed on the back cover are names of Ghettos and concentration-camps. [12] pp, 26 cm. Fair-poor condition. Stains, tears and creases.

Tsurik fun gehenom [Back from Hell], 22 tsaychnungen fun Berl Friedler, mit a forvort un text fun Paul Trepman Bergen-Belsen, 1947. Yiddish; Title page in English.
Impressive sketches by Berl Friedler documenting the horrors of the holocaust; some in color. [25] leaves, 22.5X30 cm. Good-fair condition. Cover detached and torn. Minor stains and tears.