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Granada, London, 1980. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Glossary. And acknowledgements photographic paperback binding with red, gold and white coloured titles to the front panel and red and white coloured titles to the back strip. Quoting the rear panel blurb " ... (this book is) The true, documented chronicle is the intimate, day-to-day record of a beautiful women who survived the nightmare of Auschwitz and Birkenau." Rubbing of the book edges and panels with tanning of the text block edges along with faint foxing. Foxing to the first few and last few pages of the book and the top right hand corner of the text has been dogeared from page 213 through to and a book. Size: 12 mo (standard paperback). 221, [3] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare; Holocaust; WW II; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 058312139X. ISBN/EAN: 9780583121392. Inventory No: 0291005. . 9780583121392

Flamingo, Pymble, New South Wales, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. XIV, 282 pages, author's note and acknowledgements. Photographic front cover with pale peach and pale purple titles to the front panel and backstrip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the free front and paper. The recounting of the author's life through a series of letters to his granddaughter, Esther. In it he goes back to his life as a boy in Hungary -- being told by his mother to make his own way in the world because of inability to feed him at age 8, the struggle for survival until being caught and put into the concentration camp Mauthausen, and then the struggle for survival in that environment. A little creasing to the book corners. Rubbing to the book panels and browning to the text block edges and internal text. Second Impression. Size: Standard Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category:… Leer más

Picador, London, 1995. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good. Photographic frontispiece – showing the author at about age 10. Photographic paperback binding with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. The author " ... was a tiny child in the roundups in Poland began. His father was killed in front of him, he was separated from his family and found himself completely alone in a series of death camps. Only an adult hood to be find a way to recover his memories. He recounts these fragments with a child's unadorned speech and unsparing vision." -- from the rear panel blurb. Minor creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Reading creases to the backstrip. The front panel has started to curl and there is age toning of both the textblock edges and pages. Original owner's name to the top edge of the half title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 155, [1]… Leer más

New English Library, London, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. 94pp. Grey coloured endpapers. Black coloured boards with your writing on the spine. Shelf wear evident to the bottom edges of the book. Some marks to the first few pages of the book. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a young person's head with some flowers underneath, with black background and red and white writing in front panel and spine. The dustwrapper is rubbed and somewhat faded, and there is very minor rubbing to the corners. The author, her four sisters, mother and brother together with other Hungarian Jews were deported in cattle trucks Auschwitz. This is the authors' haunting testament. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Military History -- World War II; Holocaust; Judaica; ISBN: 0450047296. ISBN/EAN:… Leer más

Gefen, Jerusalem. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic & Illustrations. Preface by the president of the Czech Republic and in appreciation. The text is illustrated with black-and-white contemporary drawings by various children and adults; and black-and-white photographs. Photographic paperback binding with orange coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear panel. This is not a traditional "autobiography" of the Holocaust by the author, but a series of memories and fragments of growing up, her family, and of the various concentration camps that she was interred in – Terezin, Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen during the Holocaust. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with the front panel starting to curl. Very light age toning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 110, [4] pages,. Please refer to… Leer más

Holocaust Library, New York, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. The text is illustrated with Occasional black-and-white photograph. The Last Walk of Janusz Korczak, A Prose Poem by Aaron Zeitlin begins on page 7 and preface to the diary begins on page 67 by Igor Newerly. Illustrated paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. In 1942 Janusz Korczak was an educator for 200 orphans in Warsaw. He would not abandon them, even though he was offered an exemption, when they were herded on to the boxcars for the concentration of Treblinka, where, he at the head of his children marched into the gas chambers. This is a reproduction of his diaries while he and his children were still in the ghetto. A little creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Reading creases and fading of the back strip stop light age toning of the text block edges. Previous owners name to the top edge of the half title page and rubber stamp to… Leer más

Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, New South Wales, 2014. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. Maps, introduction and prologue by author, 2 appendices, acknowledgements, notes and bibliography. At the beginning of the text there are 2 maps of the region spoken about in the text. The text is illustrated with 2 inserts, of 8 pages each, of black-and-white photography. Photographic paperback binding with gold and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France." – from rear panel blurb. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with creasing of the corners. Age toning of the text book edges and pages. The book has become a little crinkled. Full Number Line. Size: Trade Paperback. [8], IX - XXVIII, [2], 3 - 323, [1] pages,. Please refer to… Leer más

Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, New South Wales, 2014. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. Maps, introduction and prologue by author, 2 appendices, acknowledgements, notes and bibliography. At the beginning of the text there are 2 maps of the region spoken about in the text. The text is illustrated with 2 inserts, of 8 pages each, of black-and-white photography. Photographic paperback binding with gold and white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France." – from rear panel blurb. A little creasing of the lower book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Age toning of the text block edges and pages with a few marks to the text block edges. Pages 10 through to 41 have become a little crinkled; with the hinge cracking between… Leer más

Stirling, New York, 2011. Reprint. Hardcover (1/4 Boards 3/4 Boards). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Publisher's note, dramatis personaae, treatment of military ranks, list of abbreviations, list of maps and diagrams, preface and introduction by authors, acknowledgements, notes, bibliography and other sources, index and picture credits. Illustrated end pages, being reproductions of documents. The text is illustrated with black-and-white and coloured photography, diagrams and maps. 1/4 grey coloured back strip with dark red coloured titles. 3/4 Black coloured boards. Photographic dustwrapper with grey, silver, black and white coloured titles to the front panel with white and black coloured titles to the back strip. Title says it all. A little rubbing of the back strip edges and of the book corners. Previous owner's name to the top edge of the half title page. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels with the top edge being slightly ruffled. There… Leer más

Hybrid Publishers, Melbourne, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Foreword by the editors, acknowledgements and glossary. Between pages 66 and 67 there are 12 pages of colour reproductions of artwork, and throughout the book small black-and-white photographs of contributors. Colour illustrated paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip "In this, their second anthology, the Melbourne Child Survivors of the Holocaust have attempted an ambitious task: in essays, poetry, anecdotes and artwork, to reflect on the influence their experiences of the Holocaust have had on their lives." – from the rear panel blurb. Minor rubbing of the book panels and a little creasing to the lower book corners. Size: Trade Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Judaica; Holocaust; WW II; ISBN: 1876462396. ISBN/EAN: 9781876462390.… Leer más

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, Boston, 1993. Reprint. Softcover (Photographic). Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. Introduction and acknowledgements by author, for further reading and index. The text is illustrated with historical black-and-white photographs. Photographic paperback binding with ochre and lavender coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Written for children, this is the story of (via personal narratives) of Jewish children who were hidden from the Nazis by individuals, families, convents and institutions during World War II. Minor creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Previous owners name to the top edge of the free front end page. Size: Square Octavo. [10] 118 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Holocaust; Children; Judaica; WW II; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0395861381. ISBN/EAN: 9780395861387. Inventory… Leer más

Ecco / HarperCollins, New York, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Boards). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Inscribed by Author. introduction by Anthony Lewis, Note to the Reader, afterword by Alan Dershowitz, acknowledgements, notes and index the text is illustrated with eight pages of black-and-white photographs / illustrations between pages 138 and 139. 1/4 black coloured cloth covered backstrip with gilt coloured titles. 3/4 pale purple coloured boards with self embossed publisher's titles to the lower edge of the front panel. Plain text dustwrapper with black and white coloured background, and gilt and white coloured background to the backstrip. White, black and gilt coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. When Deborah Lipstardt, an American academic, wrote her book "Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory" and named the British author David Irving as one of the "... most dangerous… Leer más

Bantam Books, New York, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. acknowledgements, introduction by editors, glossary of terms and index. Illustrated card cover with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "This new collection of readings is designed to serve as an introduction to the extraordinary event in human history known as the Holocaust: the Nazis' brutal extermination of more than 6 million Jews and other "undesirables" during World War II. It is a painful, shocking, and heart rendering story. But it is a story that must be told." -- from the rear panel blurb. Creasing to the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Sunning on to all surfaces of the book, particularly backstrip. Browning and some staining to the textblock edges with browning of the pages. Pages 85 through 288 had become somewhat dog eared, to the top right-hand corner of the page. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). [24], 3-295, [3] pages,. Please refer to… Leer más

HQ / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, London, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. At the rear of the book there is the author's family tree and acknowledgements. Black and white photographs decorate the pages. Photographic / illustrated paperback binding with gilt and white coloured titles to the front panel and gilt and dark blue coloured titles to the back strip. The author is the daughter of Holocaust survivors, and, lived her life with sudden silences and the past to terrible speak of by her parents. In her early 40s she found out that her father had an earlier marriage with one daughter who had perished in the Holocaust, and, she set out to find out as much as she could about her family, her ancestors and what they endured and how they survived. Some creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. Size: Trade Paperback. 231, [3] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture… Leer más

Penguin, New York, 2001. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. XX, 330 pages, last three pages blank, With a scribble mark on the last page, the book is otherwise clean, includes chapter notes, and eight pages of black-and-white photography, Take two children, the product of conversion to Catholicism from Judaism, bring them up devoutly, now treat them on the basis of their Jewish heritage. One of the twins becomes more devout in Catholicism, the other returns to his father's Jewish faith. Now compare the two people. The book is written by the son of the "Jewish" brother. (Well obviously the other brother having become a Catholic priest, couldn't be the father could he?) The fascinating conflict between two identical brothers echo is the schism between their separate religions. The author lovingly tries to understand and bring to life the struggles and soul-searching of the generation before him. The softcover binding has a… Leer más

Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Clean copy, no damage to the dustjacket, no damage to the book, no annotations. Eight pages of photographs and reproductions of documents. Simon Wiesenthal is the most, or was, the most famous of all Nazi hunters. After surviving the Holocaust as many of his compatriots didn't, he dedicated his life to finding those who perpetrated the most hideous of crimes on innocent people. "This is the story of Wiesenthal's lifelong struggle for justice." Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XII, 372 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Holocaust; ISBN: 0802112781. ISBN/EAN: 9780802112781. Inventory… Leer más

Nicholson & Watson, London, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Preface and introduction by author and to appendices. Green coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured titles to the back strip. Quoting from the preface " ... This book has been written in one of the darkest years of Jewish history. The German war of extermination has culminated in organised mass murder. Millions have perished, and nobody knows how many will survive. It is the duty of the world not only to act now and to save what still can be saved, but to end the tragedy of the Jewish people and to solve the Jewish problem." Softening of the back strip edges with bumping on rubbing of the book corners. Fading of the back strip and a little to either side of the back strip. Very noticeable foxing of the book panels. Light browning of the text block edges with very faint foxing of the text block edges. Previous owners name to the top edge of the front paste-down.… Leer más

Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. acknowledgements and bibliography. Throughout the text there are black and white photographs. Photographic card cover, with flaps, with black, gold and white coloured titles to the front panel and gold, purple and white coloured titles to the backstrip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear flap. "In Zhager, a small town on the Lithuanian-Latvian border, well over 3000 Jewish men, women and children were massacred on 2 October 1941, by members of the Lithuanian Militia. They lie in a mass grave in Naryshkin Park, the heart of the shtetl, where lovers once walked." -- from the front fold over panel. The authors' father and family were from that shtetl, and she set out to find out what happened to her father and his family in the Holocaust. Creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Age toning of the text block edges… Leer más

Methuen, London, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. Author's note appendices, bibliography and index. Between pages 134 and 135 there are eight pages of black-and-white photography. Photographic paperback binding with black, yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the back strip. Eyewitness accounts of the life of Klaus Barbie, also known as the Butcher of Lyon. As the head of the Gestapo in the French town of Lyon during World War II, Barbie gained a reputation of ruthlessness and relentless for his pursuit of Resistance fighters and Jews. He became one of the most infamous Nazi war criminals, but, due to information he gave the US Counterintelligence Corps, he was able to flee to South America at the end of the war. It was only when an unsympathetic government in Bolivia in 1983 cracked down on its population of criminals that Barbie was expelled and sent to France. This book was published just prior to… Leer más

Hybrid Publishers, Ormond, Victoria, 2012. First Edition. Softcover (Photographic). Very Good Condition. Inscribed by Author. Acknowledgements and bibliography. Colour photographic paperback binding with white and gold coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Colour photograph of author to the top left hand corner of the rear panel. The biography of the author's family and friends through the visit dudes of the 20th century, including the Holocaust and refugees and asylum seekers. Minor creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. Size: Trade Paperback. [4], V - VI, 344, [4] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Holocaust; Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 1921665653. ISBN/EAN: 9781921665653. Inventory No: 0288017. . 9781921665653