Joseph Kermish, Holocaust survivor. Yiddish “The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising”, illust., 1st ed., 1948, Argentina
“Der Ojfsztand in Warszewer Geto”
(The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April 19 - May 16, 1943), in Yiddish, 1st ed., illustr.,
Transl. by Shlomo Lastik
Buenos Aires: Tsentral-farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine, 1948. First Yiddish edition, 160 pp., illustrated by real b/w photos.
Hard cover, 20.5 x 14 cm..
Condition: Rear cover detached; tracks of heavy damping and mold to covers,
Spine damaged, browning and soiling paper to endpapers;
Some tracks of mold internally.
This is the first Yiddish translation of this important and comprehensive work on the famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by acclaimed Polish-Israeli historian and Holocaust survivor Joseph Kermish (1907-2005). Interleaved throughout with an unmber of glossy plates of b/w photographic reproduction of relevant images relating to the history of the uprising. Extensive bibliographic and glossary sections, as well as text about the Polish-Jewish studies series, at the rear