The Life We Live, the Death We Die, a booklet of caricatures by John Olday. [London]: Freedom Press, [the second half of the 1940s]. English.
Twenty one caricatures blatantly depicting Europe during World War II: street fights, the bombing of cities, wounded veterans, beggars and more. Bound in an original cardboard cover, printed in red and black.
John Olday (1905-1977; born Arthur William Oldag) was a German-English caricaturist, journalist and playwright of the anarchist circle.
In his youth, he took part in a row of coup attempts and uprisings in Germany (including the Kiel Mutiny, the November Revolution and the Spartacist Uprising) and after the Nazi rise to power, escaped to England. In 1943, he defected from the British Army and turned to underground anarchistic activity – distributing anti-war posters, poems and caricatures (including the booklet before us). After the war he was sentenced to a year of imprisonment due to his defection.
[21] leaves, approx. 24X35 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains (mostly on the first leaves). A fold line in the center of the booklet. Tears and open tears along the edges and fold line in some of the leaves. The cover is worn and damaged. There is a large tear to the front cover, along almost the entire fold line.

Emigration eventuelle Juive en Angola [Potential Emigration of Jews to Angola], by Jacques N. Politis. [France, ca. 1938]. French.
The plan for Jewish settlement in Angola was one of a series of plans to settle Jews in remote places in the world, which were suggested as "alternate homelands for the Jewish People" throughout the 1930s (among these homelands were the Virgin islands, Belgian Kongo, Costa Rika and British Guyana). The plan was supported by USA President Franklin D. Roosevelt, yet was accepted with indifference by the British government and was therefore abandoned.
This booklet documents a private attempt to promote the plan, done by a member of the French branch of the Rothschild family, the lawyer Jacques N. Politis. The booklet contains four short chapters summarizing the proposal (the agreements reached during negotiations with the government of Portugal, the steps that should be taken to enable the emigration, the advantages of settlement in Angola and conclusions) as well as a color map of Angola (cut from another book and mounted to one of the leaves), on which the areas suitable for settlement are marked by hand. Printed on bottom of the front cover is the name of the person to whom this copy of the booklet was given – Madam Halphen.
[2], 9 pp + [1] map, 27.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes.
Not in OCLC.

"Memorial for those martyred in Poland during the months Tamuz to Kislev 1942-1943" (Hebrew), a leaflet. Publisher and year not indicated. [Palestine, 1943?].
A version of the "El Maleh Rachamim" (God Full of Mercy) prayer in memory of Holocaust victims – "The thousands upon thousands souls of Israel … that were killed … in the countries occupied by the Nazis … Poland, Austria, Bulgaria, Belgoium, Bukovina, Servia, Galicia, Germany, Denmark, Holland, Yugoslavia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Czechoslovakia, France, Occupied Russia, and the other countries occupied by the enemy" (Hebrew). The prayer was presumably written during Operation Reinhard, subsequent to hundreds of thousands of Jews being sent from the Warsaw Ghetto to the extermination camps ("The Grossaktion").
The printed text was vowelized hand (in pen).
Approx. 13X16 cm. Good condition. Fold lines. Creases and minor blemishes. A small tear to edge.

Two Nazi maps of Lodz (Litzmannstadt) from World War II and a map of the "Nazi crimes in Poland" from 1968. Germany and Poland, 1942-1968. German and other languages.
1. Plan von Litzmannstadt mit Strassenverzeichnis [Map of Litzmannstadt with Street index], by Erwin Thiem. Lodz: S. Spiegelt, 1942. German. Scale: 1: 20000.
A large map of Lodz. On verso is a comprehensive, alphabetically ordered, list of all street names throughout the city. The area of the Jewish Ghetto has been erased of street-names and replaced by a series of letters or numbers (small portion in white, in central upper area of map).
Approx. 70X94 cm. Good condition. Fold lines and creases. Minor stains. Small tears (mainly along the fold lines).
2. Deutsche Heereskarte – Litzmannstadt [Map of the German Army – Litzmannstadt]. [Berlin]: OKH / GenStdH (Chef des Kriegskarten- und Vermessungswesens) [The General Staff of the Ground Forces of the German Army, Mapping and Measurement Department], 1944. German. Scale: 1: 300000.
A third edition of the map of Lodz and its surroundings (published for the first time in 1941). Printed, presumably, for the general staff of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe). On top of the map it is indicated that it was intended for military use only.
56X50 cm. Good condition. Stains and minor blemishes to margins.
3. Nazi Crimes in Poland in the Years 1939-1945, a map edited by Jan Laskowski. Warsaw: Polskie Przedsiębiorstwo Wydawnictw Kartograficznych, 1968. Scale: 1: 1500000. Polish, Russian, French, English and German.
A map depicting the Nazi crimes in Poland. It shows the precise location of each camp, number of prisoners, extermination camps, concentration and labor camps, mass tombs of Polish and Russian prisoners of war, numbers of executed, and more. It was edited for the Council for Protection of Fight and Martyrdom Monuments and is based on documents of the Central Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland.
47X58 cm. Good condition. Fold lines and creases. Stains, tears and minor blemishes (mainly to margins and along the fold lines).