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LOT 136:
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(HOLOCAUST).
The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland. Note Addressed to the Governments of the United Nations on December 10th, 1942, and other documents.
Title in red with eagle, symbol of Poland. MINT CONDITION.
pp. 16. Original printed wrappers. 4to.
London, Hutchinson, for the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, (1943).
THE FIRST OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE WESTERN GENERAL PUBLIC OF THE NAZI'S SYSTEMATIC EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS.
During World War II, Poland maintained a Government-in-Exile in London. This pamphlet, a Government Paper issued by Poland’s exiled Ministry of Foreign Affairs in London, constitutes the first official announcement of the existence of The Final Solution and thus, the Holocaust. In an appeal to the worlds’ conscience, it details the systematic extermination of the Jewish population of Poland, with particular emphasis on the mass deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to the extermination camp at Treblinka.
The facts presented were gathered, at great personal risk, by JAN KARSKI (Kozielewski), a Polish Government emissary in occupied Poland from 1940 to 1942, “who was smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto and into a concentration camp in the Lublin area. The horrors he witnessed marked him deeply and propelled him to become not only the messenger of the Polish underground, but to concentrate on giving voice to the suffering of the dying Jews. In November 1942, Karski reached London, delivered the report to the Polish government-in-exile, and set out to meet Winston Churchill, other politicians, journalists, and public figures. Upon completing his mission, Karski went on to the United States, where he met with President Roosevelt and other dignitaries, and tried in vain to stir up public opinion against the massacre of the Jews.” (Yad Vashem).
Cited by Lucy Dawidowicz in her work, The Holocaust and the Historians (1983) p. 167, Karski's report could not be more explicit in its description of the horrors nor in its plea for help: "The new methods of mass slaughter applied during the last few months confirm the fact that the German authorities aim with systematic deliberation at the total extermination of the Jewish population of Poland and of the many thousands of Jews whom the German authorities have departed to Poland from Western and Central European countries and from the German Reich itself. The Polish Government consider it their duty to bring to the knowledge of the Governments of all civilized countries the following fully authenticated information received from Poland during recent weeks, which indicates all too plainly the new methods of extermination adopted by the German authorities."
The pamphlet contains the text of Raczynski’s Note, a letter written by Edward Raczynski, the President of the Republic and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland in Exile, delivered on December 10, 1942 to the 26 government signatories of the Declaration by United Nations. Raczynski’s Note introduced the reality of the Holocaust to the world and sounded the global alarm bells about the Nazi massacre of European Jewry.
FOR MORE ABOUT KARSKI AND THE SINGULAR IMPORTANCE OF THIS PUBLICATION, SEE:
https://righteous.yadvashem.org/? searchType=righteous_only&language=en&item Id=4043972&ind=NaN.
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Karski.
