Undzer Churban in Bild [Our Destruction in Pictures], collected and edited by Rafael Olevski, Paul Trepman, and David Rosental. Published under the auspices of the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the British Zone. Bergen-Belsen: Undzer Shtimeh ["Our Voice"], December 1946. Yiddish, English, and German.
Rare and important photographic documentation of subjects and events from the rise of the Third Reich until the liberation of the death camps. Includes 115 black-and-white photographs, including photographs of the ghettoes, of the acts of persecution, and of the selection process at the extermination camps. The title pages, introduction, and captions are printed in Yiddish, Hebrew, English, and German.
The significance of this book and the sources for the pictures it contains are presented in the publisher’s introduction: "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 S.S. soldiers, speak for themselves on the bestiality which will forever bring shame on human kind".
imprisoned SS murderers – do bear witness to their beastly [acts of] murder…".
38 ff., 37.5X30 cm. Missing: (Illustrated) front and back covers. Good condition. Tears to edges of some leaves, in particular to (Yiddish) title page. Minor stains and few creases.