Sale 2406 Lot 61

(JUDAICA/WORLD WAR II) 
Album with 168 carefully composed photographs in occupied Poland by a Nazi photographer. 
Many of them depicting the town of Strzyzow, including 15 of the Jewish population. With views of Polish Jews wearing armbands; forced labor workers; Rabbis with yellow badges; a minyan of Jewish men in prayer; a Jewish policeman ("kapo") supervising slave workers; and children reading a Notice Board posted by Die Sturmer, the weekly tabloid-format Nazi newspaper published by Julius Streicher (a prominent Nazi propaganda official), with slogans "We the Jews are destroying the country" and "The Jews are our misfortune." With additional images of Polish types, street scenes, a mining camp, Cracow, the Russian/German city of Premysi, and Nazi officials. Silver prints, each 2x2 1/8 inches (5.1x5.4 cm.), mounted recto/verso, each print is numbered, and many pages with headings and captions (in German), in white pencil. Oblong 4to, multi-colored leathertte; ties; internally and externally excellent. 1941 


Estimate $1,200 - 1,800