Photobook
Creator(s)
- Gerszon Taffet (Author)
- Wydawn. Centralnej Zydowskiej Komisji Historycznej przy C.K. Zydo?w polskich (Publisher)
Archival History
The book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Ed Gaerber.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ed Gaerber
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Book published soon after the war featuring photographs of atrocities against Polish Jews in German occupied Poland acquired by Edgar Gaerber. Ed, age 10, and his parents Dr. Bernard and Fanka Gaerber fled Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine] during the invasion by Germany in September 1939. The Soviet Union invaded from the east and the invaders divided the country; L'vov was in Soviet territory. In June 1941, Germany retook the region. The German occupation was brutal. Thousands of Jews were murdered in pogroms by local Ukrainians. In late 1941, Ed and his family had to relocate to the ghetto. In March 1942, the Germans began mass deportations to Belzec killing center. Ed's family got false identification papers and went into hiding, moving around to different towns. In July 1944, L'vov was liberated by the Soviet Army. In 1945, Ed and his parents moved to Łódź, Poland. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7. The family emigrated to Canada in 1949.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Book; 18 unnumbered pages, 104 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves : chiefly illustrations ; ; 25 x 34 cm. Title also in Russian; added t.p. in French, Hebrew and Yiddish; captions in all six languages. The introductions and captions to the pictures are in Polish, Russian, English, French, Yiddish, and Hebrew, and were written by Gershon Taffet. "Explanatory notes to the photographs" in Polish and English: [15] leaves at end. Other titles: Extermination of Polish Jews, album of pictures Hurban Yehude Polin : kovets tsilumim חורבן יהודי פולין : קובץ צילומים Hurbm fun Poylishn Yidntum : foṭografisher albom חורבן פון פוילישן יידנטום : פאטאגראפישער אלבאם Extermination des Juifes en Pologne : album de photographies Unichtozhenie evreev v Polʹshe : alʹbom snimkov Уничтожение евреев в Польше : альбо снимков Extermination of Polish Jews
Subjects
- Jews--Persecution--Poland--History.
- Poland--History--German occupation, 1939-1945--Pictorial works.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Pictorial works.
Genre
- Books and Published Materials
- Object