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WORLD WAR II - HOLOCAUST
The German Extermination Camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Two Eye-witness Accounts, Washington D.C., War Refugee Board, November, 1944

27 November 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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WORLD WAR II - HOLOCAUST

The German Extermination Camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Two Eye-witness Accounts, maps and diagrams of the camps, publisher's stapled printed wrappers, printed "Reprinted in Eire by the Office of War Information of the United States of America at 15 Merrion Square, Dublin" on lower cover, old fold creases, small 4to, Washington D.C., War Refugee Board, November, 1944

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"The first report is based upon the experiences of two young Slovakian Jews who escaped in April, 1944, after spending two years in the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau in southwestern Poland", including descriptions of the gas chambers. The second report, entitled "Transport (the Polish Major's Report)" was written by an escapee from Auschwitz. Published by the War Refugee Board, which "is engaged in a desperate effort to save as many as possible of Hitler's intended victims... [and] is making the reports public in the firm conviction that they should be read and understood by all Americans" (Preface).

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