• The battle of the Warsaw ghetto, by Sh. Mendelsohn

Curatorial Notes:

• This early account of the Warsaw ghetto uprising provides details about the Holocaust, while it was still occurring, including references to gas chambers at Treblinka. This document’s existence disproves the notion that the world did not know the extent of Nazi crimes while they were happening. Its wide publication describing these crimes – this edition published in Shanghai a year after it was published in New York – illustrates the breadth of Jewish activism in response to Nazi oppression.

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9922385173506421

Author:

• Mendelsohn, Shloyme, 1896-1948

Format:

• Book

Language:

• English

Publisher:

• Shanghai, "Bund" Group of the Polish War Refugees, 1945.

Extent:

• 29 p., [1] leaf of plates. port. 19 cm.

Subject:

• Warsaw (Poland)—History—Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943
• Jews—Persecutions—Poland—Warsaw
• Poland—History—Occupation, 1939-1945

Description:

• Ex copy has inscription on front wrapper: "We are enjoined to labour: but it is not granted unto us to complete our labours." Talmud.

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

Exhibit Tags:

• Armed Resistance
• Jewish Activism