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Final Letters from Victims of the Holocaust
by Dafni, Reuven; & Yehudit Kleiman (selected by); Foreword by Chaim Herzog
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1557784957
- ISBN 13
- 9781557784957
- Seller
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Henderson, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
New York: Paragon House, 1991. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. Bright, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. The dust jacket is price clipped and very lightly rubbed. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. Tiny remainder mark on one edge. Pages are fresh and crisp. Transcribed here are the poignant messages dropped or hidden by Jews on deportation trains and their cards or letters from ghettos, prisons, and death camps. Knowing or suspecting their fate, some wrote to bid final farewell to loved ones and relatives. Others scribbled last thoughts or evidence of the crime on whatever scraps of paper they could scrounge. This selection is from the collection at the Yad Vashem Archives in Jerusalem. Illustrated with portraits of the writers and facsimiles of their actual letters and postcards. Most entries include a brief biographical account of the writer, and his or her ultimate fate. Bound in the original off-white boards, lettered in shiny silver on the spine. Complete with dust jacket.. First Printing of the First US Edition.. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Mary Ann Smith jacket art.. 8vo. 128pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005987
- Title
- Final Letters from Victims of the Holocaust
- Author
- Dafni, Reuven; & Yehudit Kleiman (selected by); Foreword by Chaim Herzog
- Illustrator
- Mary Ann Smith jacket art.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing of the First US Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 1557784957
- ISBN 13
- 9781557784957
- Publisher
- Paragon House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 8vo. 128pp
- Keywords
- World War 2. Third Reich. Death Camps.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Holocaust / Genocide / Shoah; Judaica / Jewish Studies;
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Henderson, Nevada
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