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(NAZI AND HOLOCAUST PHOTO ALBUM): A clothbound photo album, 14 leaves, oblong 4to. dated 1939 on...

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(NAZI AND HOLOCAUST PHOTO ALBUM): A clothbound photo album, 14 leaves, oblong 4to. dated 1939 on...
(NAZI AND HOLOCAUST PHOTO ALBUM): A clothbound photo album, 14 leaves, oblong 4to. dated 1939 on the inside front cover above the name of the original owner, Hans Gatermann. The album containins approximately 120 candid black and white photos, mostly 2" x 3" detailing his service during the Second World War. Of particular interest are his shots, taken in Zambrow, in the Bialystock District, of a roundup of the local Jewish population. Two of the photos show a middle aged Polish Jew speaking with a German officer at a doorway. Another shows two somewhat emaciated-looking Jewish men holding a conversation with others waiting around. A photo on the following page is more ominous and shows a group of Jewish men marcing down the street watched over by German soldiers and is labeled underneath: "200 Juden wurden abgansolt inn [?] Wagun zur [?]." Another shot shows Jewish and Polish women and children waiting in a group at a street corner accompanied by a German soldier. The Germans entered this area in June 1941, and they established a ghetto in Bialystok in August of that year. Most of the Jews of that region were sent there. The Jews of Bialystok were mostly deported to Treblinka in August of 1943. From the range of photographs it appears as if the owner of the album saw service first in Poland, into Russia, than later in France and Greece. There are several shots of occupied Paris, as well as images of an apparant visit home to see family. Several photos appear to have been taken later in the war in France and Belgium. Most are mounted to the pages, a few mounted with corners and several photographs are loose. Overall very good condition and worthy of further research. $600-800