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Tevan Kiadas [Published date: 2009]. Hardcover portfolio, [16 laid-in plates in cream folder] ; 35 cm ; Foreword by Bela Zsoltand and Epilogue by Maria Kozak Szegedi in English and Hungarian. Facsimile edition of the original 1947 publication. Black-and-white charcoal drawings by Tibor Jankay.
In very good condition with some bumping to edges and corners of covers and light overall scuffing and soiling to covers as well. Light bumping to edges of some of the plates as well. Facsimile edition published on the 110th anniversary of Tibor Jankay's birth, reproducing the rare 1947 edition originally printed by Tevan Kiadas, Bekescsaba. This commemorative volume includes Jankay's powerful graphic sketches documenting his experiences during World War II and the Holocaust, portraying the deportation, suffering, and resilience of Hungarian Jews. The 2009 edition adds an English foreword by Bela Zsolt and an epilogue by Maria Kozak Szegedi (not present in the original edition). Contents include: Labour camp workers; Labour camp workers from Debrecen executed; At the cross inspection; The Cservenka deportation; Labour-camp workers; Heading to the extermination chambers; The courtyard in the ghetto; The big march; The ghetto garden; In the ghetto; Living direction signpost; Those arrived to Auschwitz; Executioners in Auschwitz; Auschwitz gas chamber victims; Upswept victims in the gas chamber; And here we are!. [From the 2009 edition foreword and epilogue:] The artist's experiences are recounted through these haunting sketches, originally published in 1947 but reprinted here to preserve memory and serve as a powerful testament to collective responsibility. Jankay emigrated to the United States in 1948, where he continued his artistic career until his death in 1994.