[With Fold-out Map of the Kovno Ghetto] Kaplan, Israel, editor

FUN LETSTN CHURBN [FUN LETZTN KHURBAN / KHURBN / CHURBAN]: TSAYTSHRIFT FAR GESHIKHTE FUN YIDISHN LEBN BETN NATSI-REZSHIM. FROM THE LAST EXTERMINATION: JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE DURING THE NAZI REGIME. Nr. 9. September, 1948 פון לעצטן חורבן

Munich: Central Historical Commission, 1948. Item #42920

Small 8vo; First Edition. Paper Wrappers, 98 pages. Includes 7 photos with captions in English & Yiddish, and 4 maps (1 folds out). One of 8000 issued. In Yiddish with English Cover, table of contents, & photo captions.
Important journal lasting 10 issues which written & published by Jewish DPs themselves to document crimes and survival in the Holocaust. The publisher's decision to include the English table of contents, probably in part to insure the journal's use in future war crimes trials, makes these first hand accounts especially user-friendly today, almost 60 years later.
Robinson & Friedman #1247: "The Historical Commission [was] established in 1945 under the auspices of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U. S. Zone. [It] Ceased operations early in 1949. Details of the activities of the Munich center can be found in No. 1247 [Fun Letsten Churbn]..."
Hagit Lavsky notes in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Gutman, ed., 1990, p. 383) that, "Commemoration and documentation projects [by Jewish DPs] included the work of the Tsentraler Historisher Komisiye (Central Historical Commission), established in December 1945 by the Central Committee in Munich, to assist in bringing Nazi criminals to trial. A network of regional committees was set up under the commission's auspices whose task it was to take evidence and collect documentary material, including material on DPs. In August 1946, the commission published the first issue of the monthly FUN LETZTEN HURBAN." Published under DP-Publications License US-E-3 OMGB, Information Control Division.
Articles include:
-The destruction of the schools and teachers of Kaunas, I. Kaplan; 
-Vocational schools in the Ghetto of KaunasReligious life in the Ghetto of Kaunas,  Rabbi Elhanan Person-Rebekah Gutmann; 
- The orchestra of Ghetto Kaunas  T. Gurewitz;
-The rising in the Ghetto of Tutchin, Mendl Man ;   
-Liquidation of the camp Kloga dr. L. Burzanski; 
- Miadel and surroundings (Eye-Witness Report);     
-Meals in the Ghetto of Lodz,  S. Glube;   
-My Experiences during the War (from the Series of Children's Reports), Ehia Menkis,  Ela Grilihes; 
- Brigades (song), Rahel Silkia; 
-Nazi Documents;
-Photographs of the Nazi Period; 
-Bibliographical List of Articles on Jewish Life under the Nazis Published inthe Press of the Shaarith Hapleita;
- Report on Activities of the Central Historical Commission; 
-Chronicle; 
-Printed editions received in our files;  Corrections and remarks; 
-Supplement - Map of the Ghetto of Kaunas.

For more, see Beer, Frank, et al: "Von der letzten Zerstörung Die Zeitschrift 'Fun letstn churbn' der Jüdischen Historischen Kommission in München 1946-1948. (Berlin Metropol-Verlag 2020).
OCLC: 20485863
Very Good Condition. (HOLO2-122-51D).

Price: $200.00