Ironic drawing celebrating VE day by a Hungarian concentration camp survivor
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1945 May 08-1946
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Art
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Drawings
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Cartoons (Commentary) (tgm)
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- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Erwin and Virginia Kieckhefer
Cartoonlike drawing of a hand with two fingers, one dripping blood and missing the top half, raised in the V for Victory sign. It was drawn by Ernu Homanye-Grytze on May 8, 1945, VE (Victory in Europe) Day, the day the Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. The coloring was added in 1946. Homanye-Grytze was a self taught artist from Hungary with moved to Paris. In September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and World War II began. In June 1940, the Germans occupied France. Around this time, Homanye-Grytze returned to Hungary. Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944. At the end of the war, Homanye-Grytze, 36, was liberated from a concentration camp.
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