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1. Watercolor of a POW camp owned by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.84 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.84
Date:
creation: 1945
Artwork Title:
Natternberg
… store to a non-Jew for less than it was worth. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and World War II began. In early 1940, Rudolph moved out of…
2. Black painted metal bust of Adolf Hitler acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2013.439.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Baltimore War Memorial Museum…
3. Pencil portrait of a former Jewish Polish hidden child done in DP camp
2013.470.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.470.6
Date:
creation: after 1946 January-before 1946 May
Artwork Title:
Portrait of Basha, 1946
… rumors of the end of the war spread in the spring of 1945, Janina told Berta that she planned to leave. Berta said the child must remain with her. In the…
4. Ironic drawing celebrating VE day by a Hungarian concentration camp survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1987.16.1
Date:
creation: 1945 May 08-1946
Artwork Title:
Aftermath
…Ernu Homanye-Grytze was born in 1909 in Hungary. His youth was disrupted by World War I (1914-1918.) His family was constantly on the move and life…
5. Arthur Szyk drawing
Object | Accession Number: 2002.449.2
Date:
1944
Artwork Title:
Refugees, 1944
… 1914 with a group of Polish-Jewish artists and studied Muslim art. Upon his return, he was conscripted into the Russian Army and served in World War I…
6. Halina Olomucki drawing
2001.122.38 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.122.38
Date:
1949
Artwork Title:
Mother and baby
… returned to Warsaw after the war ended in May. She found no surviving family members. She recovered drawings she had smuggled out of Warsaw Ghetto and later…
7. Architectural study of Hotel des Invalides by Jewish veteran, 2nd Polish Corps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.153
Date:
creation: 1949 September 13
depiction: 1949 September 13
Artwork Title:
Hotel des Invalides, September 13, 1949
… completely, as they experienced the trauma of war together. In June, the Corps fought in the Adriatic Campaign, including the Battle of Ancona, capturing the…
8. Arthur Szyk satirical antiwar sketch
CM_1995.40.57 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.40.57
… 1914 with a group of Polish-Jewish artists and studied Muslim art. Upon his return, he was conscripted into the Russian Army and served in World War I…
9. Small sketch of a bear drawn by a Jewish veteran, 2nd Polish Corps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.122
Date:
creation: approximately 1949
Artwork Title:
Small sketch of a Bear, September 1949
… completely, as they experienced the trauma of war together. In June, the Corps fought in the Adriatic Campaign, including the Battle of Ancona, capturing the…
10. Architectural study of Pavillon Richelieu by Jewish veteran, 2nd Polish Corps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.147
Date:
creation: 1949 September 06
depiction: 1949 September 06
Artwork Title:
Pavillon Richelieu, Musee Louvre, Paris, September 6, 1949
… completely, as they experienced the trauma of war together. In June, the Corps fought in the Adriatic Campaign, including the Battle of Ancona, capturing the…
11. Pencil portrait of a young man in profile created by Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.46 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.46
Date:
creation: 1943 January
Artwork Title:
Young Man in Profile, Kanaquin, January 1943
… completely, as they experienced the trauma of war together. In June, the Corps fought in the Adriatic Campaign, including the Battle of Ancona, capturing the…
12. Double sided studies of female nudes by a Jewish veteran, 2nd Polish Corps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.135
Date:
creation: 1949 August-1949 September
Artwork Title:
Sketches of Female Nudes, September 1949
… completely, as they experienced the trauma of war together. In June, the Corps fought in the Adriatic Campaign, including the Battle of Ancona, capturing the…
13. Two studies of a nude female model by Jewish veteran, 2nd Polish Corps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.164
Date:
creation: 1949 August-1949 September
Artwork Title:
Two Sketches of Standing Female Nudes, 1949
… completely, as they experienced the trauma of war together. In June, the Corps fought in the Adriatic Campaign, including the Battle of Ancona, capturing the…
14. Double sided drawing of nude females by Jewish veteran, 2nd Polish Corps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.136
Date:
creation: 1949 August-1949 September
Artwork Title:
Double Sided Drawing of Female Nudes, Septmeber 1949
… completely, as they experienced the trauma of war together. In June, the Corps fought in the Adriatic Campaign, including the Battle of Ancona, capturing the…
15. Halina Olomucki drawing
2001.122.39 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.122.39
Date:
1950
Artwork Title:
Free!
… returned to Warsaw after the war ended in May. She found no surviving family members. She recovered drawings she had smuggled out of Warsaw Ghetto and later…
16. Arthur Szyk drawing
Object | Accession Number: 2002.449.1
Date:
1943
Artwork Title:
The modern pirate stories
… 1914 with a group of Polish-Jewish artists and studied Muslim art. Upon his return, he was conscripted into the Russian Army and served in World War I…
17. Sketchbook of drawings created postwar by a former Polish soldier, POW, and refugee
2010.35.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.35.1
Date:
creation: 1949-1954
depiction: 1939-1954
… and sent to Stalag XIB prisoner of war camp outside Fallingbostel, Germany, and assigned prisoner number 140379. He worked in a smeltery as a crane…
18. Watercolor of a yellow field leading to blue and gray mountains created by a young Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.36 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.36
Date:
creation: 1942 August
Artwork Title:
Mountain Impressions, Khanaqin, Iraq, August 1942
… completely, as they experienced the trauma of war together. In June, the Corps fought in the Adriatic Campaign, including the Battle of Ancona, capturing the…
19. Pencil sketch of a horned bull drawn by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.56 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.56
Date:
creation: 1943
Artwork Title:
Bull with Curved Horns, 1943
… completely, as they experienced the trauma of war together. In June, the Corps fought in the Adriatic Campaign, including the Battle of Ancona, capturing the…
20. Double sided sketches of nude female figure by Jewish veteran, 2nd Polish Corps
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.162
Date:
creation: 1949 August-1949 September
Artwork Title:
Two Sided Drawing: 4 Study Sketches, Female Nudes, 1949
… completely, as they experienced the trauma of war together. In June, the Corps fought in the Adriatic Campaign, including the Battle of Ancona, capturing the…