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Author: (Judaism - Holocaust)
Title: Eisenstein, Maria
Place Published: L'Internata Numero 6: Donne fra i reticolati del campo di concentramento
Publisher:Roma [i.e. Rome]
Date Published: Donatello de Luigi
Description: 1944165, [3] pp. 20x12 cm (8x4¾"), original printed wrappers, photo-pictorial dust jacket. First Edition.The very rare first edition, printed in October 1944 as World War II and the massive tragedy of the holocaust was ongoing, of this first-hand account of internment in an Italian concentration camp. Maria Eisenstein [née Moldauer], born in Vienna in 1914 to Polish-Jewish immigrants, moved to Florence, Italy, in 1936 to study at the University. She was arrested in June 1940 on the basis of the racial laws and interned in the Lanciano camp, a special concentration camp for women in the province of Chieti, together with 74 other women, mostly foreign Jews. She was there for five months. Afterwards, she was given "free internment" in Guardiagrele, where she married the Romanian Jewish doctor Samuel Eisenstein. After the German invasion, she and her husband fled to the south of Italy which had been liberated by the Allies. In 1948 they immigrated to the USA. Moldauer's handwritten notes were discovered in December 1943 by an American army officer and published in October 1944 in Rome. OCLC locates five copies, at Universita de Torino; Univ. Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; the Library of Congress; Bar Ilan University; and the National Library of Israel. No mention is made as to whether any of the copies have the dust jacket, which must be exceedingly rare.

Volume spine leaning a bit, jacket with some wear at spine ends and edges, 2 tear to rear panel