With A Camera in the Ghetto de Grossman, Mendel; Arieh Ben-Menahem - 1970

Israel: Ghetto Fighters' House & Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1970. Hardcover. First edition, third printing, 1980. Very Good hardcover with a moderate bump to two tips, two small tears at the heel, and light wear at the crown in a Very Good dust jacket with light rubbing at the extremities and a couple of small abrasions. A nice copy. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Photographs by Mendel Grossman; text excerpted from The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto; biographical essay by Arieh Ben-Menahem. 112 pages; approx. 70 b&w images; 8 x 10.25 inches. Lodz was the first ghetto the Nazis established after the invasion of Poland and within 6 months it was sealed and segregated from the surrounding so well that the Polish underground was never able to penetrate it. Between 1940 and 1944, 43,000 people died of hunger and disease. Grossman was an artist and respected photographer before the war, and when sentenced to the ghetto, he obsessively and secretly documented life in the Lodz ghetto and the slow death of his family members. He died in the final days of the war, during a forced march out of the concentration camp he had been sent to.