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Tsurik fun Gehenem : 22 tseykhenungen fun Berl Fridler

Object | Accession Number: 2004.28.2

A copy of “Tsurik fun Gehenem: 22 tseykhenungen fun Berl Friedler” [Back from Hell : 22 collected sketches by Berl Friedler,] published in 1947. The bound book contains a series of 21 color-printed, chronological sketches drawn and published by Holocaust survivor Berl Fridler. The sketches are preceded by a Yiddish-language forward written by Paul Trepman.

SubTitle
miṭ a for-ṿorṭ un ṭeḳsṭ fun Pol Ṭrepman.
Alternate Title
Back from Hell : 22 collected sketches by Berl Friedler
Date
publication/distribution:  1947
Geography
publication: DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen; Belsen (Bergen, Celle, Germany)
Language
Yiddish
English
Classification
Books and Published Materials
Category
Books and pamphlets
Object Type
Books (lcsh)
Genre/Form
Books.
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gunther Schwarberg

About This Object

Physical Description
Book; 2 leaves; 21 plates; ill.; 22 cm
The book is printed in black ink on tan paper and fastened by two staples at the spine. It consists of a Yiddish-language forward, followed by a series of black-and-white printed sketches with some colored elements and details. The images chronologically depict exclusion, ghetto, and concentration camp scenes. The pages are discolored throughout, and the edges are brittle with some small losses throughout.
Dimensions
overall: Height: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm) | Width: 11.875 inches (30.163 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)
Materials
overall : paper, ink
Markings
front cover, printed, black ink : Hebrew characters / 1947

back cover, printed, black ink : BACK FROM HELL / Collected Sketches by Berl Friedler / BERGEN-BELSEN 1947 / GERMANY

back cover, lower right corner, in border, printed, black ink : I wish to express here my grateful / thanks to The Central Committee / of Liberated Jews in the British / Zone of Germany and the Ame- / rican Joint Distribution Committee / in the British Zone, for their / assistance in publishing these / sketches. B.F.
Contributor
Author: Berl Friedler
Publisher: Berl Friedler
Author: Paul Trepman

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Günther Schwarberg.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use

 
Record last modified: 2022-02-28 14:31:06
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