THE ROAD TO LUBLIN: A SURVIVOR’S STORY
New York: American Jewish Committee, 1940. Item #43325
1st separate edition. Original paper wrappers. 8vo, pages 119-133 [14 pages total]. “Reprinted from Contemporary Jewish Record March-April, 1940.” Includes photo of “Armbands which Nazis are compelling the Jews to wear.” Moldawer’s story originally appeared in The Forward (N.Y.C.), Jan. 2-5, 1940 in Yiddish.
Moldawer, a Polish Jew who had resided in Germany, had been caught by the outbreak of the war in Hamburg on his way to the United States. Together with other Jews holding U.S. visas and steamship tickets on the Hamburg-America Line-which had suspended operations-he was deported to Lublin via Prague. Moldawer used his U.S. visa and left Poland in December 1939, and was able to issue this report, which became important at the time for understanding what was happening to the Jews in Poland, and is often cited in later analysis.
“During the Holocaust, 99% of the Jews from Lublin District in the General Governorate of German-occupied Poland were murdered, along with thousands of Jews who had been deported to Lublin from elsewhere. There were three extermination camps in Lublin District, Sobibor, Belzec, and Majdanek.
The ghettoization of the Jews for the purpose of persecution, terror, and exploitation in the Nazi German controlled towns began immediately after the invasion of Poland….The number of major urban ghettos established in the General-Government in 1939–40 including those of Kraków and Warsaw, reached one hundred before the end of the year. In the Lublin area, the situation initially differed. Instead of their urban concentration, some 10,000 Polish Jews had been expelled from Lublin in early March 1940 to the rural towns where ghettos were not set up, based solely on Globocnik's opposition to the Jewish people living near his staff headquarters. The remaining 40,000 Jews of Lublin were forced into the Lublin Ghetto in May 1940” (Wikipedia).
SUBJECT(S): Nazi concentration camps. World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews. Concentration Camps Camps de concentration nazis. Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Juifs. Majdanek (Concentration camp). OCLC: 39753405. Touch of edgewear to rear wrapper, Very Good Condition Overall. (B) (HOLO2-162-15-AX-BB).
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