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Les Triangles Rouges (The Red Triangles) [INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR OMER HABARU]

Habaru, Omer

Arlon: Editeur J. Fasbender, 1946. Second edition. Hardcover. Small Octavo. 296 [5]pp. Bound in red pebbled leather with gilt lettering on tooling on spine, retaining original illustrated tan wraps with red and black lettering. Speckled edges. Inscribed "Homage de l'auteur O. Harabu..." (Includes street address in Arlon) on front free endpaper.

Harabu documents the horrors he endured as a political prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps of Wichte, Oranienburg, Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück, and Buchenwald. Born in 1893 in Saint-Mard, Belgium, Habaru was arrested and sent to concentration camps where he recorded the daily events. Among other things, Habaru recounts the stories of other Belgium prisoners who were arrested and detained with him, including Jews and even young boys, providing descriptions of the terrible abuse suffered, the malnutrition and unbearable living conditions the Nazis employed to strip the prisoners of their humanity. Among the accounts he describes the fate of a Ravensbrück prisoner named "Lili" and how she survived the inferno despite all torture endured. The book describing his experience was published shortly after his release. The book was recognized and was awarded the Prix Interallié de la Résistance in 1956. An updated version was published in 1874 under the title "Les Triangles Rouges Racontent: Récits Concentrationaires." Fine condition. Item #55083

Price: $575.00