Képek az Elhurcoltakról. Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau (Pictures of the Abductees)

Quarto. Unpaginated [8 double-sided leaves]. B/w paper wrappers. This scarce Hungarian publication was issued shortly after the end of the Second World War and the Holocaust*, and visually documents Nazi atrocities in horrific detail. Published by the 'Committee to Help Those Abducted by the Fascists', the work is profusely photographically illustrated throughout with b/w reproductions after original photographs provided by the American War Correspondence Office, The Russian Auschwitz Film Bulletin, Austrian Stern-Verlag and the Hungarian Film Office. The disturbing images contained here were taken at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald and Dachau, as well as the Budapest ghetto, showing among other things the bodies of murdered men, women and children, and corpses in mass graves (i.e. double-page spread). The images here are powerful and nightmarish even in the context of other Holocaust publications. The verso of the seventh leaf contains the famous image showing Elie Weisel with fellow inmates in block 56 of Buchenwald. The introductory text was written by Hungarian journalist and politician Sandor Millok (1887-1959). At the time of this publication, Millok, who himself had been imprisoned by the Nazis at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp during the war, was serving as the Hungarian government's Commissioner for Repatriation. The final page contains some statistics provided by the Commission for Repatriation, and publication credits. Text throughout in Hungarian. Wrappers with a vertical crease down the center, and some staining. Interior with the vertical crease throughout the book block and some sporadic light stains, mostly confined to the margins. Images still mostly clean. Wrappers in good, interior in very good- condition overall. Quite scarce. Protected in modern mylar. * There is no date of publication, but the introductory text is dated to Christmas of 1945, so it can be guessed that it was issued in early 1946.