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Lurie, Esther : JEWESSES IN SLAVERY. YEHUDIYOT BA-SHI`BUD

Palestine: Sifriat Poalim Workers' Book Guild, (1945)

First edition. Original illustrated wrappers, 12mo, 43, 10 pages. Text in English and Hebrew. 13 drawings made by a Jewish woman of her fellow inmates while in the concentration camp at Leibitsch which consisted of 1200 Jewish women who had been deported from the Kaunas Ghetto in East Prussia. “Lurie was liberated by the Red Army on 21 January 1945. In March 1945 she reached a camp in Italy, where she met Jewish soldiers from Palestine who were serving in the British army. One of them, the artist Menahem Shemi, organized an exhibition of drawings from the camps, which resulted in the publication of a booklet Jewesses in Slavery. This contained drawings by Lurie from Stutthof and Leibitz and was published by the Jewish Soldiers' Club of Rome in 1945. Lurie also created stage sets for the military song and dance group in the camp, which was founded by Eliahu Goldberg and Mordechai Zeira. Lurie reached Israel (Palestine) in July 1945 and was received with great excitement. Her stories were published in the press and her drawings were exhibited in exhibitions. In 1946 she was again awarded the Dizengoff Prize for a sketch Girl with Yellow Badge, which she had made in the Kovno ghetto” (World ORT and Beit Lohamei Haghetaot, 2001) . SUBJECT(S) : World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish. Women in art. OCLC Worldcat lists 18 copies worldwide. Ex-library copy with small pocket and stamps in Hebrew, wrappers slightly toned with a couple of tiny stains, otherwise Very Good Condition. (holo2-125-38A)

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