L'Zecher Tishim VeShalosh MiAchoteinu BaPolin. Tel Aviv, Iyar 1943. Rare

L'Zecher Tishim VeShalosh MiAchoteinu BaPolin. Tel Aviv, Iyar 1943. Rare

L'Zecher Tishim VeShalosh MiAchoteinu BaPolin, "In Memory of 93 of Our Sisters in Poland," whose chose a martyrs' death over desecration. Published by HaVaad LaHagana Al Kavod Bat Yisrael (The Committee for the Daughter of Israel's Defense) by the Chief Rabbinate of Tel Aviv and the District. Tel Aviv, Iyyar 1943.

Specifications: [2], 31 [3] pages, includes jacket cover page, 17 cm.

Background: Early publication chronicling the story of 93 Jewish girls from Beit Yaakov in Poland who preferred to die rather than be raped by German soldiers during the Holocaust. The beginning of the booklet contains a printed letter sent by Chaya Feldman, one of the girls, from the Krakow ghetto, where she writes the story. Includes articles, speeches and poems about the matter. The jacket cover's back title page contains the prayer El Maleh Rachamim to "hundreds of thousands of Israel ..." with details of the countries in which Jews were killed [apparently during that period, spring of 1943, the estimated number of those killed was in the hundreds of thousands].

Condition: Very fine. Creases in jacket cover.