SZALET, LEON (SIGNED); WILLIAMS, CATHARINE BLAND (TRANSLATOR) — Experiment "E" - a Report from an Extermination Laboratory

New York: Didier, Publishers, 1945. Second Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. "The story of the writer's experiences in the Nazi concentration camp of Sachsenhausen, the experimental laboratory where the Nazis perfected the techniques in extermination later applied to victims from all over Europe. It was also the training ground for the personnel, recruited from the dregs of Germany's prisons. Shows how human fortitude, ingenuity, mutual loyalty and the will to live can enable men to survive unbelievable degradation; or, if they must die, to die like men." - dust jacket. "The impact of your memoir is terrific... I think this book is an achievement equalling Zola's J'Accuse." - Manfred George, Editor. "We ought to have these stories preserved. The whole race suffers when such things happen." - Pearl Buck, Nobel laureate. "Leon Szalet (1892-1958) made a daring attempt to escape Germany in 1939 but was sent back by the British. On September 13th, 1939 he was arrested by the Gestapo in Berlin and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, along with another five-hundred Polish Jews who lived in Germany." - Wikipedia. iv, 284 p. Second printing of the 1945 first edition. Black and white reproduction of the Alien's Order, 1920 which caused Szalet's expulsion to Berlin from England. Inscribed in New York on July 31st, 1947 to I. Z. (?) Melup, presumably Irene Melup (1925-2016) of the Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice Branch of the United Nations. She joined the U.N. in 1946, shortly after its founding, and established a reputation as a defender of victims' rights the world over. (Sources: The International Society of Criminology, Online obituary). Tight and unmarked with average wear to original red cloth. Average wear to complete dust jacket now in archival protection. A special copy. Kehr & Langmaid 6239, Weiner Library (Cat. 7) 1819. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author. Good in Good dust jacket .