Our Destruction in Pictures

Book Description

Our Destruction in Pictures Printed in Bergen-Belsen by the Central Committee in the British Zone of the Liberated Jews(HOLOCAUST/PHOTOGRAPHY) Our Destruction in Pictures. Collected and Edited by R. Olevski, D. Rosental, P. Trepman, under the Auspices of the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the British War Zone. “Our Voice”, Bergen-Belsen: December 1946. 37 pp. Folio. Text in Yiddish, Hebrew, English, German. Illustrated with 115 photographs. Repair and restoration to original printed illustrated wrappers. Very Good condition.This rare, disturbingly poignant gathering of holocaust images might best be described in the words of the editors: “The incentive to produce this collection gave us our deepest desire to show the world the crimes of Germany, to give expression to the throttled cry of pain of the Jews, to the sighs of our fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, during the frozen nights of winter and the overpowering heat of the summer which was spent in sealed railway trucks, the desire to bring back to our memories of the Jewish settlements which were drowned in torrents of Jewish blood.” The text in four languages: Yiddish, Hebrew, English, and German is nearly superfluous next to the graphic nature of these images taken predominately in the ghettos of Beldzin and Lodz and the camp at Bergen-Belsen. “We are not yet free of the burden of the past…When words are too weak and too poor to convey the destruction and extermination of Jewish life, may these pictures, found by accident on arrested SS soldiers, speak for themselves of the bestiality which will forever bring shame on human kind.”

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