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1. Antisemitic cartoon by Fips of a Jew selling nude women in a shop window acquired by a US soldier
1993.86.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.86.1
Date:
creation: 1924
found: approximately 1945 May
Artwork Title:
Sau Jud
Alternate Title:
Filthy Jew
…Antisemitic cartoon by Fips of a Jew selling nude women in a shop window acquired by a US soldier…
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2. Book illustration of an allegorical cartoon on the destruction of Dutch Jews
2013.514.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.514.8
Date:
publication/distribution: approximately 1945 May 05-1945 May 31
Artwork Title:
De Waanzin Breekt Los
Alternate Title:
The Madness Breaks Loose
…Book illustration of an allegorical cartoon on the destruction of Dutch Jews…
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3. Imagined scene of inmates playing violins as Jews are sorted by German guards at a concentration camp
2006.125.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.22
Date:
creation: 2000 October 10
depiction: 1942-1945
Series Title:
Imagining Auschwitz
Artwork Title:
Auschwitz Orchestra and Crematorium
…Imagined scene of inmates playing violins as Jews are sorted by German guards at a concentration camp…
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4. Etched print created by David Friedman of a man kneeling in despair a few seconds before execution
1998.80.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.80.2
Date:
creation: 1967
depiction: 1944 August-1945 January
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Jew Crying Out in Fear in a Concentration Camp
…Jew Crying Out in Fear in a Concentration Camp…
5. Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of freed prisoners homeward bound
1988.182.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.4 a-b
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1945 January
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
From Concentration Camps to Liberty
…Because They Were Jews!…
6. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of concentration camp inmates who preferred the electric wire rather than more tortures
1998.80.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.80.1
Date:
creation: 1964 January 23
depiction: 1944 August-1945 January
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Electrocution by Choice
…Because They Were Jews!…
7. Autobiographical drawing by David Friedmann of Jewish prisoners on their way to bury a shot comrade
1988.173.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.2
Date:
depiction: 1944 August-1945 January
creation: 1945
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Burying a Shot Comrade
…Because They Were Jews!…
8. Allegorical steel sculpture made to honor Raoul Wallenberg by an artist who was one of the 1000s saved by his efforts
2012.338.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.338.9
Date:
creation: 2010-2012
commemoration: 1944-1945
Series Title:
The War Series
Artwork Title:
Homage to Wallenberg
… elements and was closely allied with Germany. Antisemitic measures based upon the Nuremberg racial laws in Germany were passed in the 1930s. Jews lost their…
9. Painting on glass of Fagin with his toasting fork
2016.184.89 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.89
Date:
creation: approximately 1940-1945
Artwork Title:
Fagin from Oliver Twist
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
10. Drawing of woman scrubbing floor given to German Jewish inmate
2003.361.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.15
Date:
received: 1943 June-1945 May
Artwork Title:
Woman in blue dress scrubbing a floor, Theresienstadt
… Jews), which was established in September 1933 to oversee Jewish education, vocational training, welfare and economic assistance, and emigration and was…
11. Portrait of a Theresienstadt inmate drawn by another inmate
2003.361.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.16
Date:
creation: 1943 June-1945 May
received: 1943 June-1945 May
Artwork Title:
Portrait of Moritz Henschel, Theresienstadt 1943-1945
… Jews), which was established in September 1933 to oversee Jewish education, vocational training, welfare and economic assistance, and emigration and was…
12. Watercolor sketch of his postwar Parisian studio created by a Hungarian Jewish musician
2012.245.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.245.7
Date:
creation: 1945
Artwork Title:
My studio quai Jemmappes, Paris, 1945
… foreign born Jews. The camp was administered by French police until July 1943 when it was taken over by the German and an SS officer, Alois Brunner, was…
13. Cartoon of a chaotic train station created soon after the war by a former hidden child
2004.24.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.24.1
Date:
creation: 1945 May
depiction: 1945 May
Artwork Title:
Retour des vacances a la gare Montparnasse, May 1945
Alternate Title:
Returning from a Camping Trip with My Boy Scout Troop, May 1945
… for identification cards stamped Juif [Jew] in red that all Jews were required to carry. Jews, primarily foreign born, were being rounded up and put in…
14. Colored pencil drawing of the final red train cars passing through a concentration camp gate
2006.125.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.23
Date:
creation: 1985-2000
depiction: 1942-1945
Series Title:
Imagining Auschwitz
Artwork Title:
Taken by Train to Auschwitz
… accompanied by German led killing squads, which, assisted by local Lithuanians auxiliaries, murdered thousands of Jews and Polish nationals. Aryeh and his…
15. Anti-Nazi caricature, discouraging revealing information, published by Palestine Government
2019.7.5.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.7.5.2
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940-1945
… population. During the Nazis rise to power, and outbreak of World War II, thousands of European Jews attempted to escape to Palestine. However, Britain placed…
16. Gouache
1995.82.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.82.15
Date:
1945
Artwork Title:
Ruins Around The Castle
… Michael, born on August 24, 1938, in Warsaw. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was occupied on the 29th. On November 23, Jews were…
17. Drawing by Alexander Bogen of groupings of partisans in a wood, including a row of partisans with a flag
2005.181.133 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.181.133
Date:
creation: 1945 December 09
Artwork Title:
Partisans base
…. The journey east and then back to the west took months. Along the way, Alexander began sketching what he saw of the suffering of his fellow Jews under…
18. Autobiographical drawing of bombed out buildings
1995.82.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.82.17
Date:
depiction: 1943
creation: approximately 1945
Artwork Title:
A Site of Destruction
… Michael, born on August 24, 1938, in Warsaw. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was occupied on the 29th. On November 23, Jews were…
19. Anti-Nazi, zoo animal caricature, printed in Palestine
2019.7.5.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.7.5.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940-1945
Title:
Nazi Zoo
…, many German and European Jews began immigrating to Palestine, which was awarded to Great Britain following World War I. Before and after the British…
20. Gouache
1995.82.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.82.13
Date:
1945
Artwork Title:
Jesuits St.
… Michael, born on August 24, 1938, in Warsaw. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was occupied on the 29th. On November 23, Jews were…