[ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE HOLOCAUST] - HAAS

[ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE HOLOCAUST] - HAAS, LEO - 12 PUVODNICH LITOGRAFII Z NEMECKYCH KONCENTRACNICH TABORU [A DOZEN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS FROM GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS] Prague, 1947. First edition, oblong folio, large folded sheet of text, 12 fine (and at times quite horrific) numbered lithographic illustrations (complete), text and plates loose as issued in the original publisher's grey wrapper, some light spotting to plates. Haas (1901-1983), a graduate from the art academies of Karlsruhe and Berlin, was arrested in 1939 and sent to the Nisko Labour camp. In September 1942 he was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto and assigned to the Technical Department, where artists were forced to illustrate propaganda material for the Germans. Along with other artists, he secretly painted life in the ghetto. In 1944 he was transported to Auschwitz, and a month later to Sachsenhausen. Following the end of the war, Haas recovered some 400 of his art-works, which he had secretly hidden. For the rest of his life, Haas was committed to the documentation of the horrific events he had witnessed. This important work is rare, especially in such good condition