New Widnokręgi. Issues 3-24 (excluding 20) from 1944 [photomontages by Mieczyslaw Berman].

Moscow 1944. 29x42 cm. Numbers of about 16 pages each. Good condition (tears, single small losses and perforations).

Communist periodical published from 1941 to 1946, from 1942 as a biweekly political and social magazine with an extensive literary section, intended for Poles residing in the USSR .Here the 1944 yearbook, issues 3 through 24 (excluding 20). Contents include poetry and short stories (eg. Jerzy Putrament, Lucjan Szenwald, Adam Ważyk, Elżbieta Szemplińska, Włodzimierz Słobodnik, Mieczysław Jastrun), the Katyń affair (here presented as a German crime), the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a memoir about Janusz Korczak, from the history of partisans in the Lublin region, Monte Cassino, the formation of the Polish Committee of National Liberation, the Warsaw Uprising, accounts of concentration camps (Majdanek, Treblinka) and other historical, political, social and artistic articles (among the authors are.Maria Dabrowska, Wanda Wasilewska, Tadeusz Peiper, Jerzy Borejsza, Zhanna Kormanowa, Janina Broniewska, Wiktor Grosz, Ilya Erenburg, among others). Photomontages for several articles were made by Mieczyslaw Berman.