Warsaw Ghetto Uprising map + report—Yiddish Scientific Institute—New York 1944
£420
SKU: P-6-111153
'The Battles in the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943'
Published in New York in early 1944 and "read at the 18th annual conference [of the publishers] of January 9th 1944", this map and accompanying report document the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and were intended above all to publicise the reality of the unfolding Holocaust at a moment when credible reports of mass extermination had reached the Allies but were still met with disbelief and incomprehension. Issued before the liberation of the camps, the work functions as contemporaneous testimony rather than retrospective history. Drawing on Jewish and Polish underground reports, eyewitness accounts, and resistance publications, the text reconstructs the armed uprising of April–May 1943 and the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto. It traces how Nazi policy—starvation, terror, and deportation—advanced toward systematic annihilation, and how the moment of realisation among the Jewish population that deportation from the Ghetto meant death transformed despair into armed resistance. On 19 April 1943, poorly equipped Jewish fighters confronted overwhelming German force, including tanks, artillery, and the deliberate burning of the ghetto. Despite the inevitability of defeat, resistance endured for weeks, disrupting German operations and inflicting losses. The uprising’s significance lay not in its military outcome but in moral defiance. It shattered myths of Jewish passivity, restored dignity to a condemned population, and became a lasting symbol of resistance. Published in New York, a centre of Jewish émigré life and uncensored wartime publishing, the work sought to force recognition of genocide in real time, at a point when political and public knowledge lagged far behind events.
Size 23 x 30 cm | 9.0 x 12.0 inches
Date Published: 1944
Type: Antique two-colour map, with accompanying 28 page booklet report of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Author: The Yiddish Scientific Institute—Yivo
Publication: The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto
Condition: Good |
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