Extermination of Polish Jews - Album of Pictures in 6 languages

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Extermination of Polish Jews - Album of Pictures
Zaglada Zydostwa Polskiego - Album Zdjec
Unichtozhenie Evreev v Pol'she - Al'bom Snimkov
Extermination des Juifs en Pologne - Album de Photographies
Album 1
Lodz 1945
Central Jewish Historical Committee in Lodz, Poland
Centralna Zydowska Komisja Historyczna w Polsce, Lodz
First Edition
The book is in English, French, Polish, Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew.
RARE multilingual photographic album published in Poland shortly after the end of World War II, when relatively little was known on the magnitude of the genocide perpetrated upon the European Jews.  Considered to be one of the single most important documentary photo books on the Holocaust ever published, it became the defining collection of photographic images from the period.
The album contains a short introduction, 252 B&W photographs on 104 numbered pages with brief descriptions of the photos and in the back a more comprehensive set of notes about the photos, all printed in 6 languages: Polish, Russian, English, French, Yiddish and Hebrew.  These photographic reproductions document the debasement and destruction of European Jewry, with pictures of cities, ghettos and the camps.  The photos include shocking footage from the Jewish settlements at the onset of German occupation, the ghettos into which they were later crowded and of the atrocities committed in the forced labor camps and the extermination camps. Another section of the book is dedicated to the Jewish partisan movements. The photographs were mostly taken as mementos by German soldiers, and are still as shocking today as they were in 1945.
Original Softcover. Cover corners and edges worn, rubbed. A partial owner’s label is attached to inside front cover.  Front blank page has a crease.   Page block partially separated from cover.   Pages in excellent condition.  Approx. 13.5” x 9.5”, 104 numbered pages of photos + unpaginated introduction and unnumbered pages in rear containing the photo explanations.  From a Bel Air, CA private Library collection [estate] - temperature controlled/non-smoking.