Majdanek, by Zinowij Tolkaczew. Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1945. Polish, Russian, English and French.

Limited edition portfolio (600 numbered copies), comprising 28 reproductions of paintings by the Jewish artist Zinowij Tolkaczew – official Red Army painter, who accompanied the units who liberated the Majdanek Nazi concentration camp.

Zinowij Tolkaczew (1903-1977), native of Shchedrin (Belarus), student of Alexander Osmerkin and Pyotr Konchalovsky; a professor in the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture in Kyiv. Tolkaczew was among the first in Kyiv to join the Komsomol (the Communist youth organization), and was a member of the Communist party. In 1941, nearing the age of 40, he was drafted to the Red Army as a painter, and accompanied the fighting units that liberated Majdanek and Auschwitz. The works he created following this experience, are among the most unique depictions of the holocaust and Nazi death camps; they were exhibited across Europe, and published in three albums, copies of which were sent to the leaders of the Allied Forces, to ministers and to Military commanders.

[9] pp, 28 plates, [1] p. 36 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and some creases. Original cloth portfolio (slightly worn), with striped inner lining – designed to resemble concentration camp prisoner's uniform, and embossed front.