Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of armbands, a card, and drawings by Alfred Glück relating to the experiences of Mordecai E. Schwartz during his wartime service in the United States Army and after the war when he served as Area Director for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) from 1945 to 1948 and then as Area Director for the International Refugee Organization in Germany.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 by Mordecai E. Schwartz.
Browse 14 Items In This Collection
Autobiographical drawing of bombed villages created by Alfred Glück in Hasenhecke DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.1
Autobiographical drawing of people celebrating liberation created by Alfred Glück in Hasenhecke DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.2
Autobiographical drawing of an allied soldier and a concentration camp inmate created byAlfred Glück in Hasenhecke DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.3
Autobiographical drawing of a burning synagogue created by Alfred Glück in Hasenhecke DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.4
Autobiographical drawing of a hanged Nazi soldier created by Alfred Glück in Hasenhecke DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.5
Allegorical, autobiographical drawing of a train transport to Auschwitz created by Alfred Glück in Hasenhecke DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.6
Autobiographical drawing of concentration camp inmates in a barracks created by Alfred Glück in Hasenhecke DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.7
Autobiographical drawing of inmates on a death march created by Alfred Glück in Hasenhecke DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.8
Autobiographical drawing of concentration camp inmates being punished by a guard created by Alfred Glück in Hasenhecke DP persons camp
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.9
Autobiographical watercolor of a death march survivor with bleeding feet created by Alfred Glück in Hasenhecke DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.10
Watercolor portrait of a concentration camp survivor created by fellow inmate Alfred Glück in Hasenhecke DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.11
Handwritten thank you note received by an administrator of a displaced persons camp
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.12
Circular red cloth UNRRA badge worn by a former US soldier as Area Administrator for Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.13
Nazi armband with a swastika acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1993.59.14
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