The Mass Extermination of Jews in German-Occupied Poland

Authors

Object ID

2012.1.98

Object Name

Pamphlet

Date

12-10-1942

Files

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Description

Cream-colored pamphlet titled, "The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland" with red text. Interior includes information written in English.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

A document addressed by the exiled Polish government to the governments of the United Nations in 1942. The pamphlet is concerned with the mass extermination of Jews in German-occupied Poland, and the Nazis’ “fresh horrifying methods” of extermination. The Polish government in exile was first to reveal in November 1942, through its courier Jan Karski, the atrocities committed by the Nazis and the existence of concentration camps.

Dimensions

8 1/2 x 5 1/2''

Keywords

Extermination, Occupied Poland, Poland, United Nations, Jan Karski

Subcollection

Concentration, Polenaktion

Recommended Citation

"The Mass Extermination of Jews in German-Occupied Poland" (1942). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.98.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/771