The Black Book of Polish Jewry, Apenszlak, 1943, E-53

Description: Please note we do not work weekends. All offers, questions, or concerns may not be answered untilMonday. Please understand this means you may need to resubmit your offer Sunday evening. Thank you forsupporting our libraries and have a great weekend. The Black Book of Polish Jewry is a 343-page report about the progress of the Holocaust in Poland published in 1943 during World War II by the American Federation for Polish Jews in cooperation with the Association of Jewish Refugees and Immigrants from Poland. It was compiled by Jacob Apenszlak with Jacob Kenner, Isaac Lewin and Moses Polakiewicz, and released by Roy Publishers of New York with an introduction by Ignacy Schwarzbart from the National Council of the Polish Republic. The book was sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, US Senator Robert Wagner, and other high-ranking community leaders. Historian Michael Fleming suggests it downplayed the true scale and manner of the Holocaust in an effort to elicit the empathy of its readership.The Black Book of Polish Jewry is a compendium of information collected and summarized from the plethora of already available sources including The Polish Fortnightly Review series published by the Polish Ministry of Information, the heavily-censored Gazeta Żydowska published in occupied Poland, as well as depositions of refugees who managed to escape from occupied Poland to Palestine via Wilno; articles by Swiss and Swedish correspondents, daily bulletins of the Polish Telegraphic Agency, the Jewish news agencies in Geneva, Hungary, Slovakia and Constantinople, and many others.The 343-page volume is divided into Part One, consisting of 17 chapters devoted to all stages of the mass extermination of Jews during the Final Solution; and Part Two, presenting an overview of the thousand-year-old Jewish community in Poland, in 12 chapters. Dust jacket is torn, name written on free end sheet. Webbing visible at hinge of title page. Pages and binding are tight. 343 pp. All proceeds benefit the Libraries of Pima County. Please review all photos. This listing has beendonated. Please note that the listing is for what you see in the listing. We photograph all of it so youknow what you are purchasing. The sale of the item(s) benefits Friends of the Pima Library (501c3non-profit).

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