Poster

Object | Accession Number: 1996.84.1

Overview

Brief Narrative: Announcement concerning retrieval of valuable property from former Nazi Party. It was published in cooperation with the US Military.
Artwork Title: Retrieve Gold Taken by Nazi from Victims
Date: 1945 May 25
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Mustard

Language: English
Classification: Posters
Category: Postwar posters
Object Type: Posters, American (lcsh)
Physical Description: black and white photo image of two outstretched hands covered with rings which have been collected from a containter holding "thousands of wedding rings"; Text:
"[publishing/subscription information] Volume Eight, Number 104, May 25, 1945 [postal information]/INTERNATIONAL EVENTS/THE WORLD'S NEWS IN PICTURES/RETRIEVE GOLD TAKEN BY NAZIS FROM VICTIMS/[photo image]/WASHINGTON, D.C.--Germany ... these are a few of the thousands of wedding rings the Germans removed from their victims at Buchenwald in order to salvage the gold. First Army Troops discovered these rings along with other valuable articles such as watches, precious stones, eyeglasses and gold teeth fillings, in a cave adjoining the concentration camp near Weimar./ARMY SIGNAL CORPS PHOTO BY INTERNALTIONAL SOUNDPHOTO/FLASH/SUPPORT THE MIGHTY/7th WAR LOAN/Do Your Share ... Buy All You Can Bear/PRINTED IN U.S.A."
Dimensions: overall: Height: 16.810 inches (42.697 cm) | Width: 10.980 inches (27.889 cm)
Materials: overall : paper, ink

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The poster was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Allan Mustard.