Holocaust. Piesn ujdzie cało (The song will survive) ed. M. M.Borwicz, illus.: 2 woodcuts, photos, drawings, 1st ed., 1947, in Polish
Piesn Ujdzie Calo; Antologia Wierszy o Zydach Pod Okupacja Niemiecka. Ed. Michal M. Borwicz
An Anthology of Poems about Jews Under German Occupation by some of the leading poets.
Warszawa: Centralna Zydowska Komisia Historyczna, 1947. First edition. 288pp., 10 b/w plates of artwork and b/w photographs -
illustrated by 2 woodcuts - by Jonasz Stern and Zygmunt Menkes , drawings, music sheet and photographs,
Original lithographed illustrated wrapper with red lettering on cover. 24 x 17 cm.
Condition: cover torn to edges, detached; spine and rear cover are missing, binding is loose, detached to blocks and pages; some tears, yellow / light brown papper;
last leaf with tears and missing places.
Weight: 455 gr.
Jonasz Stern (born August 4, 1904 in KaÅ‚usz, died August 2, 1988 in Zakopane) - Polish painter, graphic artist and teacher of Jewish origin, member of the communist party. He was born into a Jewish family. He was educated at the Industrial School in Lviv and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he lived from 1928. He combined his studies with paid work at the TÄ™cza factory and the printing house. In 1933, together with other artists, he founded the artistic association Grupa Krakowska. As a set designer, he collaborated with the Cricot Theatre. He was also a political activist. Parties to which he belonged: Communist Party of Western Ukraine, PPS-Left, KZMP, MOPR, KPP and PZPR. In 1936 he participated in the Congress of Cultural Workers in Lviv. For his left-wing beliefs, he was removed from the Union of Polish Artists and Designers, and in 1937 he was imprisoned in a camp in Bereza Kartuska. The outbreak of World War II found him in Lviv, where in 1941 the city was occupied by the Nazis and placed in a ghetto. From the ghetto he was sent to the death camp in Bełżec, but he managed to escape during the transport and return to Lviv. On June 1, 1943, he miraculously survived the liquidation of the ghetto, got out from under the bodies of the shot dead and escaped to Hungary to Budapest, where he was hiding in the Csillaghegy district thanks to the help of the gendarmerie commander named Endre Laszlo. He returned to Krakow in 1945. In the years 1954-1974 he worked as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts. He participated in the organization of of the Second Krakow Group and was its president for many years. He practiced easel painting, graphics, monotype and serigraphy. His works have been exhibited at in New York, Moscow, Venice, Copenhagen, London, Prague and Tokyo. Many Polish and foreign museums have his works in their collections. Jonasz Stern has been honored with many awards and decorations, e.g. Award of the Minister of Culture and Art of the 1st degree (1969), the Cyprian Kamil Norwid (1979), the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the Order of the Banner of Labor, 2nd class[1], the Order of the Banner of Labor 1st class (in 1979[2]), in 1961 he was awarded the City of Krakow Award. He lived at Jadwigi Street from Åobzów. Buried in the Alley of the Meritorious Rakowicki Cemetery in Kraków (quarter LXIX, lane C-1-5
Zygmunt (Sigmund) Menkes, Polish painter of Jewish origin, born in 1896 in Lvov, died in 1986 in Riverdale, New York. Member of the École de Paris group in the 1920s and 1930s. From the beginning of 1935 he lived and worked in the United States; he was a representative of the Expressionistic Colorism movement.
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Michal Borwicz (Maksymilian Boruchowicz) was born in Krakow in 1911, and died in Paris in 1987. A graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, he was a Jewish Polish author and historian, who studied the history of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust. Borwicz was an inmate in the Janowska camp in Lwow from 1942-1943. He was sentenced to death by hanging, however when the sentence was being carried out, the rope broke. He escaped from the camp and joined the partisans and commanded an Armia Krajowa (AK) unit in the Krakow area. After the war, he headed the Jewish Historical Commission in Krakow from 1945 to 1947. After emigrating to France in 1947, he directed the Centre d'etude de l`histoire des Juifs (Polonais) (Center for Research of the History of the Jews of Poland) in Paris until his death.