2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Photo Book "The Scenes of Destruction" - Published by the Center Party for the Workers of Eretz Israel, 1947 - Horrifying photos depicting the Holocaust of European Jewry. An album with dozens of photos documenting the Nazis' abuse of Jews with the establishment of ghettos, the dire situation of Jews in the ghettos and ghetto children, executions, transports to death camps, the extermination process, corpses of victims in camps, and more. Should you buy this gruesome photo book ?Allow me to quote the author in the preface, in part (Translated by Google Translate), “Their suffering. The pain is excruciating. No consolation language, with each passing day, with each passing year, deepens sevenfold the abysses of the brokenness that we have broken: and over these abysses hangs the stench of terror: we no longer see the light of the faces of millions of brothers and sisters who were destroyed by the hands of the hangings: we no longer hear the silver laughter of our pure children And the righteous, who were devoured by the hands of the beast of man. We will not live our saints until we have conquered the enemy - we will raise a hand and a name to illuminate their holy death and to support their heroism with a people hungry for peace, it is difficult to suppress enmity and easy to forgive insults. This book is a helpless attempt to convey in the language of the eight-letter words the separate fragments of the terrible mask of destruction that has come upon our people. The heart is a blood vessel. And to forget the crimes committed by the wicked of the world, this evil of the devil will not be forgotten from history, the fullness of our suffering, we must remember Forever, what the Nazi massacres have done to us, until the end of all generations, we will carry in our hearts the burning pain of the destruction of the House of Israel, of the destruction of a third of Judaism by a Gentile Impure and abominable, we will not cover our blood with the dust of oblivion, we will expose it to the eyes of the sun, and it will terrify the multitude of nations and will destroy the rest of the world. Not only a stream of tears is this a sign of torment for us, for if guilt is also written, written in the blood and fire of slaughtered and burned brothers, guilt is written for three crimes. Humanity: On the closing of the exile of Solomon to Germany, the unclean, and they did not remember the covenant of brothers • On the sale of a poor and righteous people to the anchor of the agave with the Shalitid-Aeritzi from the wilderness • On the exile of the captives of Zion, the remnant of the fugitives of the Tophet, from the shores of the homeland • . . Write this document, O reader, and it will be for you as a guard, and your eyes will always see it. We will remember the saints of the nation in our hearts and magnify their name forever. We will avenge our adversaries by prolonging their lives. For in their name we will climb and climb, in their name we will live and fight. In their name we will ascend and be sanctified.” The sources of the photos in the album - some were found on captured SS soldiers, some were taken underground by Jews or resistance fighters. Preface by Avraham Levinson, printed on high-quality chrome paper.
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