Description
Original booklet ( FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINT ) in the Dutch language with cardboard cover with white letters on a black background with SS logo, top right: 'MOHR' (illustrater). Photos of concentration-camps in april 1945 liberated by the British army in 32 pages. Photographs in black/white. The booklet has a spiral. With a drawn map of Germany and the Netherlands and a description of each concentration-camp.
War-paper is yellowed with some brown stains; no damage.
On the first page is an explanation in old Dutch of the reason for the war of the whole world against Germany by looking at the pictures in the book: "Deze beelden, stuk voor stuk, verklaren den strijd op leven en dood van een geheele wereld tegen een levensbeschouwing die aan het 'leven' geen, aan de 'vernietiging' elke plaats wilde inruimen."
Willem van de Poll (Amsterdam, 13 April 1895 – Amsterdam, 10 December 1970) was a Dutch press photographer in Europe, the Middle East, Indonesia and the Dutch Antilles. After the war he became the house photographer of the Royal Dutch Family; The House of Orange.
Photo's of Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwalde, Langenstein, Mauthausen, Dachau and Schwabmünchen.
Some pictures we do not show here in this description because of the shocking impact of the terror. This document is a clear piece of evidence of the cruelty of the Nazi's.
Picture no. 7 shows Elie Wiesel (1928-2016): the 7th man from the left in de second row up. Elie Wiesel Introduced the conception-word 'Holocaust'. His most famous book is 'La Nuit'-'The Night'. Founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Nobelprice for Peace 1986.
Picture no. 11 shows captured Josef Kramer commandant of Bergen-Belsen, known in Dutch as 'de Beul van Belsen' or 'Beast of Belsen'
Also available:
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TheDiary of Anne Frank. [First Edition, Second Print]. The Diary of Anne Frank. [First Edition, Second Print] + dustjacket.
The Diary of Anne Frank. [First Edition, Third Print].
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