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    Overview

    Collection Summary
    The collection consists of 9 intaglio etched prints created by Walter Spitzer based upon his experiences during the Holocaust as an inmate in Blechhammer and Buchenwald concentration camps.
    Provenance
    The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Walter Spitzer.
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    Etching by Walter Spitzer of a skeletal concentration camp inmate gazing at the empty food bowl of another

    Object | Accession Number: 2008.340.1

    Geography
    depiction: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    creation: Paris (France)
    Date
    depiction:  1943 June-1945 April
    creation:  1955

    Etching by Walter Spitzer of naked skeletal concentration camp inmates and guards

    Object | Accession Number: 2008.340.2

    Geography
    depiction: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    creation: Paris (France)
    Date
    depiction:  1943 June-1945 April
    creation:  1955

    Etching by Walter Spitzer of 2 guards with 3 unclothed female concentration camp inmates

    Object | Accession Number: 2008.340.3

    Geography
    depiction: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    creation: Paris (France)
    Date
    depiction:  1943 June-1945 April
    creation:  1955

    Etching of a group of 3 skeletal children in the outside yard in a concentration camp

    Object | Accession Number: 2008.340.4

    Geography
    depiction: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    creation: Paris (France)
    Date
    depiction:  1943 June-1945 April
    creation:  1955

    Etching by Walter Spitzer of concentration camp inmates hauling a cart of corpses, with one not yet dead

    Object | Accession Number: 2008.340.5

    Geography
    depiction: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    creation: Paris (France)
    Date
    depiction:  1943 June-1945 April
    creation:  1955

    Etching by Walter Spitzer of 2 emaciated concentration camp inmates walking arm in arm

    Object | Accession Number: 2008.340.6

    Geography
    depiction: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    creation: Paris (France)
    Date
    depiction:  1943 June-1945 April
    creation:  1955

    Etching by Walter Spitzer of a group of concentration camp inmates listening to a speaker

    Object | Accession Number: 2008.340.7

    Geography
    depiction: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    creation: Paris (France)
    Date
    depiction:  1943 June-1945 April
    creation:  1955

    Etching by Walter Spitzer of a dog attacking fallen concentration camp prisoners in an arena

    Object | Accession Number: 2008.340.8

    Geography
    depiction: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    creation: Paris (France)
    Date
    depiction:  1943 June-1945 April
    creation:  1955

    Etching by Walter Spitzer of concentration camp inmates begging, digging in a dumpster, and hauling corpses

    Object | Accession Number: 2008.340.9

    Geography
    depiction: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    creation: Paris (France)
    Date
    depiction:  1943 June-1945 April
    creation:  1955
    Record last modified:
    2023-05-05 13:26:04
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