Rachel Szalit Marcus, perished in Holocaust, 21 litho in book: Dostoyevsky “The Crocodile”, 1921, in German

Dostojewski, Das Krokodil, Ein äusserst sonderbarer Vorfall oder Was in der Passage passierte.

"The Crocodile" by Dostoyevsky, with 21 lithographs by the artist Rachel Szalit-Marcus

Potsdam: Kiepenheuer, 1921, 55 pp., hard cover, 24.5 x 18.8 cm.

Condition: cover worn, rubbed, damped, missing paper to front cover.

Damping and mold to endpapers, first and last pages; signature of ex-owner on title page; 

Notes in pen on some to right side of drawings; cople of stains to first pages

Weight: 200 gr.

Rachel Szalit-Marcus was born in Lodz in 1894 and studied in Munich, where she married the actor Julius Szalit, who later committed suicide. Szalit moved to Berlin, where she was part of leftist avant-garde circles. After the Nazi rise to power she escaped to France, but was captured in 1942 and sent to Auschwitz, where she was murdered.