Upeniek, Aleksandr

V mire ukhodiashchikh dnei [In the world of passing days]

Wiesbaden: Izd-vo I. Mezhina, 1946. Mazianis, R. (illustrator). Original pictorial wrappers. Item #293

Small octavo (15 x 11 cm). 127 pages. Text in Russian. With the "Authorized by UNRRA Team Wiesbaden" note on the printer's imprint page. The cover is lightly worn, with some foxing throughout the book. Still a very good copy. OCLC shows eight institutional holdings as of December 2022.

A poetry collection, including some of the youthful works of the poet, published by Russian Displaced Persons (DPs) in Germany in the aftermath of World War II.

Displaced persons (DP) camps in Europe after World War II were established in Germany, Austria, and Italy, primarily for refugees from Eastern Europe and former prisoners of Nazi German concentration camps. Two years after the end of World War II in Europe, about 850,000 people lived in DP camps, including Armenians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Yugoslavs, Jews, Greeks, Russians, Ukrainians, Hungarians, and Czechoslovaks. The Allies classified the refugees as "displaced persons" (DPs) and made the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) responsible for their care.

Over fifty Russian émigré publishing houses were founded in the DP camps. Such publications are essential historical materials describing the post-war events from the point of view of the representatives of the "second wave" of the Russian emigration.

Price: $350.00