"They Are Sending Them To Die In The Sahara!", Anti-Fascism Deportation Broadside, 1941

Anti-Facism

Broadside

[World-War II] [Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee] They Are Sending Them To Die In The Sahara!. Barsky, Edward K. New York: Emergency Committee to Stop Deportations to the Sahara Desert, 1941. Measuring 10.25" x 8". Single page brown flyer with black borders and bold black text. A scarce World War II flyer written by head of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, Edward K. Barsky, urging Americans to contact the Vichy French Embassy and the U.S. Secretary of State to intervene in the forced deportation of European anti-fascists to the Sahara Desert. The Pro German Pétain authoritarian government participated in Jewish expulsions and turned France into a quasi-police state, arresting and deporting dissenting activists. The flyer boasts outrage, as "The Pertain Government plans to deport to the Sahara Desert over 100,000 [anti-fascist] refugees; they are being condemned to forced labor in the construction of the Trans-Saharan Railroad; thousands have been deported already...". Even so, he surfaces the expansive nature of those who are being deported, noting that "These 100,000 include interned soldiers of Republican Spain, men of the international brigades, Germans, Czechs, Poles, Yugoslavs, Greeks, Hungarians, Italians, Austrians, and even Frenchmen". In a stark call to action, Barsky encourages the reader to "Write or wire ambassador Gaston Henri-Haye, French Embassy, Washington, D.C. Insist that the deportations to certain death in the Sahara be stopped immediately". Interesting and early example of a warning to the U.S. public of the Fascist induced refugee crisis and of Jewish people in concentration camps. In very good condition. No copies in OCLC Worldcat as per this writing.

Item #18998

Price: $550.00