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Auction 34 - The Arnie Druck Collections
"Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland" – London, 1943 – The First Official Announcement about the Systematic Murder of Jews by the Nazis
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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 broadcasted in December 1942, in which he calls upon the UN governments and the public to admit the tragedy occurring in Europe and to take action.
16 pp, 21.5 cm. Very good condition. Foxing marks surrounding staples.
From the collection of Arnie Druck.
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 broadcasted in December 1942, in which he calls upon the UN governments and the public to admit the tragedy occurring in Europe and to take action.
16 pp, 21.5 cm. Very good condition. Foxing marks surrounding staples.
From the collection of Arnie Druck.
Anti-Semitism, Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita
Anti-Semitism, Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita