An early postcard album exposing Nazi atrocities in Poland

An early postcard album exposing Nazi atrocities in Poland, published in Tel Aviv.

This rare and striking postcard album was designed to alert the world to Nazi atrocities in Poland. Published in Tel Aviv, it opens with an introduction in English, followed by a detailed description of the ten postcards in French. Reading from right to left, the album begins with a Hebrew introduction, emphasizing its multilingual reach.

The postcards themselves bear captions in English, and as the introduction explains, the album's purpose was to warn the world about Nazism. Hitler’s crimes in Poland were largely ignored, escaping the attention of European newspapers. The Palestine Anti-Nazi League, therefore, undertook this project to "break the indifference and the petrification of universal public opinion towards the events in Poland and in other countries under Nazi yoke."

Each postcard features a perforated edge with the inscription: "Send this card to your friends all over the world and take part in disclosing the Nazi barbarism." The cards—a mix of photographs, drawings, and photomontages—graphically depict scenes such as Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Nazi executions, and the persecution of Jews, including forced labour, kidnappings, and hunts.

This album stands as a remarkable historical document, likely one of the earliest publications dedicated to exposing the horrors of Nazism to an international audience.