Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege by Adelson, Alan and Lapides, Robert – Compilers and Editors - 1989

Viking -- Penguin Books, New York, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic and Maps. translators, acknowledgements, glossary, notes on the text, street map of the Lodz Ghetto and index by authors. The text is illustrated with both black-and-white photographs and there are eight pages of colour photographs and reproductions of illustrations. "Here are the private journals of people trapped in a besieged and doomed city – a 'collected consciousness' of written remnants from the longest-lasting concentration camp of Jews in Nazi Europe, illustrated with more than 200 photographs, many in full colour.Working under their autocratic leader, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, 200,000 Jews in Lodz, Poland, struggle to remain alive by producing goods for the Nazis. Life is deprived of nearly every pleasure, yet many elevated with their thoughts and words.A Time Capsule for ' readers of the future,' this book provides an unparalleled microcosm of how the Nazi Holocaust destroyed nearly all of the Jews of Europe." -- from rear panel blurb.   Full number line. Size: Square Quarto. [7], VIII - XXI, [5], 525, [5 – of which two are further titles from publishing house] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic and Maps. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Judaica; Sociology; Poland; WW II; Military & Warfare. ISBN: 0670829838. ISBN/EAN: 9780670829835. Inventory No: 0280775. . 9780670829835 THIS BOOK WEIGHS OVER 1KG WITHOUT PACKING AND EXTRA POST WILL BE REQUIRED FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA. PLEASE ENQUIRE FOR COSTS BEFORE YOU ORDER, THANK YOU.