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In the Shadow of the Swastika” — G. Shternzon-Shpak, In Shatn fun Hakenkreits Tel Aviv, 1944 — Yiddish - Here is a polished English version, faithful to the original while avoiding graphic detail and keeping it suitable for catalog use: A rare Yiddish volume published in Tel Aviv in 1944, in the midst of World War II. Its author, G. Shternzon-Shpak, presents literary and dramatic testimony on Jewish life under Nazi rule — “in the shadow of the swastika.” The work depicts the reality of ghettos, persecution, deportations, and oppression, alongside moments of Jewish resilience and efforts to preserve human dignity. Published by the Yidisher Literatn un Zhurnalistn-Klub in Eretz-Yisroel, the book is dedicated to the memory of the “martyrs sanctified by suffering” — the victims of the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto and other occupied regions. As an early wartime publication written and issued in pre-state Israel, it stands as an important historical document offering contemporary Jewish testimony before the full extent of the Holocaust was yet known.