Oboz W Majdanku
Moscow: Wydawnictwo Literatury W Jezykach Obcych (Foreign Language Literature Publishers), 1944. First edition. Softcover. 16mo. 5.5x4.5". 47pp. (1). Stapled tan wrappers with brown and dark blue lettering on the covers. Brown ruling on the front cover. This work, the "Camp at Majdanek", is the Polish-language publication of the report on the Majdanek Concentration Camp done by Soviet novelist and journalist Boris Gorbatov. Gorbatov's reporting on the camp and the atrocities committed there and in the area of Lublin, were first published in Russian in the Soviet newspaper "Pravda" on August 11th and 12th of 1944, shortly after the liberation of the camp by Soviet forces in July. These writings constitute some of the earliest writing on the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. The writing describes the camp and the ongoings there in vivid detail, including interviews with local residents of Lublin. After Gorbatov's report are two shorter pieces on the the camp, one by by Polish-Soviet Commission on Majdanek, and the other a statement by Hilmar Moser a German lieutenant general. Illustrated throughout with 8 b/w photographic reproductions of photographs of the camp, including images of the crematorium, human remains and shoes of the victims, as well as reproductions of Moser's written statement. This publication is one of a number of similar works on the same subject by the same publisher in 1944. Text in Polish. Wrappers with a few light smudges, and light rubbing to extremities. Protected by modern mylar. Wrappers in very good-, interior in near fine condition. vg- to near fine. Item #43450
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