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The Accursed Buchenwald - A detailed testimony of a former prisoner in the Buchenwald camp, Chaumont (France), 1946 - First edition / Testimony of Women in the Death Camps - First edition - BUCHENWALD la Maudite - “The Accursed Buchenwald” on the horrors of the Buchenwald camp by the camp prisoner Fernand Wiszner. Chaumont (France), 1946 - First edition. French. On the front endpaper, an inscription by the author’s brother: “In memory of my brother who disappeared; who would have been very happy to present you with this little book. July 7, 1974, Relly”. Bound with Femmes N.N. Ravensbruck Mathausen Bergen Belsen Ravensbrück, Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen, by Jeanne Faure and Lucette Gorrand - testimony of the women prisoners about their fate in the death camps. France, March 15, 1946 - First edition. Both publications are extremely rare. Fernand Wiszner, a French journalist who was captured by the Gestapo on charges of collaboration with the enemy, was taken to Compiègne, where he remained for several weeks in early 1943. From there he was taken to Buchenwald, where he was held as a prisoner almost until the end of the war. In his book, he describes in detail the Buchenwald camp and the daily life within it: the severe torture he endured upon arrival at the camp, the serious illnesses that afflicted him as a prisoner and the way he barely managed to survive them, the hunger, the forced labor, and the endless roll calls conducted in the bitter cold. He describes the horrifying event that recurred each time a prisoner was led to execution - an orchestra composed of prisoners accompanied him, and it also accompanied prisoners going out to forced labor. He also describes the executions at the gallows in the camp, the marking of prisoners, the harsh punishments imposed by the Nazis for minor “offenses” such as stealing bread, and more. In Buchenwald, he endured severe torture for a long time and only narrowly managed to survive. Referring to one of the times when he was on the verge of death, he writes: “I did not want to die in this accursed land; I did not want to leave through the crematorium chimney, but through the front gate; I wanted to see my homeland again... From the very first days we arrived, our comrades died. All those who were in poor health were condemned to death...”. In Buchenwald, Fernand worked in a group of 100 men to which a commander was assigned who had the right to beat the workers freely. The group was tasked with moving large stones from the quarry to a nearby structure using only their hands, without any tools. Many of the prisoners in the group lost their fingers during the work and were maimed in other parts of their bodies as well, and many died during the labor. In one of the chapters, he documents the abuse by the Nazis of a large group of Jews who arrived at the camp from Hungary, as well as the forced labor of Jewish children and their execution. He further describes a horrifying execution in the quarry itself of several prisoners who were punished for not meeting quotas. In a special chapter dealing with the fate of the Jews in the camp, he describes the mass killings and the removal of the bodies of the dead to a mass grave at a pace the prisoners themselves could not keep up with daily. He also describes the events in the camp in the final weeks before the end of the war. With the American invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944: “Within less than 10 minutes the entire camp was outside, ” he writes. However, he and his comrades remained to work and were not evacuated. He and other prisoners constantly sought opportunities to escape, and toward the end of the war he indeed managed to escape, was captured after several days, and transferred to Ravensbrück, where he remained until the end of the war, when the camp was liberated.   Rare. Only two records in the WorldCat global library catalog. In the second part appears the publication Femmes N.N. Ravensbruck Mathausen Bergen Belsen Ravensbrück, Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen, by the former prisoners Jeanne Faure and Lucette Gorrand. France, March 15, 1946 - First edition. The testimony of the prisoners about their harsh fate in the death camps until their liberation. The meaning of the abbreviation N. N. is Nacht und Nebel (“Night and Fog”). This was a secret order of the camp command from December 1941, according to which the prisoner was designated for execution in the near future. This publication reveals in detail the terrible atrocities committed by the Nazis against women in several camps, as experienced by the authors themselves: “In a tent near our block, the SS supervised women who had been abandoned for eight days without food in terrible cold. The unfortunate women were beaten... There was what we called a slave market: the SS selected the most beautiful and strongest women from the ranks for work in factories. In Block 32, ours, there were what the Germans called ‘guinea pigs’, that is,