Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of seventeen drawings, three watercolors, and 1 typed manuscript created by Karl Schwesig before and after the Holocaust when he was arrested in Dusseldorf, Germany, for anti-Nazi activity and for being a Communist, and incarcerated in multiple internment and prison camps in German and then France, as well as works relating to his wartime experiences done when he returned to Dusseldorf after the war.
- Provenance
- The collection was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988.
Browse 21 Items In This Collection
Karl Schwesig political cartoon mocking a Nazi parade
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.1
distribution: Cologne (Germany)
Cartoon by Karl Schwesig of Nazi soldiers bowing to a part human/part animal puppet
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.2
distribution: Cologne (Germany)
Drawing by Karl Schwesig satirizing the embrace of Fascism in France
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.3
distribution: Cologne (Germany)
Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting Hitler greeting a British diplomat
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.4
distribution: Cologne (Germany)
Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting the subjugation of Yugoslavia to Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.5
distribution: Cologne (Germany)
Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting Nazi followers as robots
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.6
distribution: Cologne (Germany)
Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting Nazi soldiers as pigs
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.7
distribution: Cologne (Germany)
Pencil and ink drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting a skeletal Hitler atop an airplane
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.8
distribution: Cologne (Germany)
Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting a German prison
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.9
Watercolor created by Karl Schwesig postwar based on his experiences in an internment camp
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.10
depiction: Noe (Concentration camp); Noe (France)
Drawing created by Karl Schwesig postwar based upon his experiences as a political prisoner
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.11
creation: Dusseldorf (Germany)
Drawing created by Karl Schwesig postwar depicting a beating he witnessed in a concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.12
creation: Dusseldorf (Germany)
Watercolor created by Karl Schwesig postwar of Jewish prisoners in a concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.13
creation: Dusseldorf (Germany)
Watercolor created by Karl Schwesig with a scene of soldiers and inmates in a concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.14
creation: Dusseldorf (Germany)
Etching by Karl Schwesig of 3 inmates at work under an armed guard in a prison camp
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.15
Etching by Karl Schwesig showing inmates bartering bread and cigarettes in a concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.16
Etching by Karl Schwesig showing one legged inmates going to work in a concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.17
creation: Dusseldorf (Germany)
Ink drawing by Karl Schwesig showing one legged inmates working in a field in a concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.18
creation: Dusseldorf (Germany)
Etching by Karl Schwesig showing a fellow prisoner writing in a concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.19
creation: Dusseldorf (Germany)
Satirical etching by Karl Schwesig showing men in academic robes saluting a corpse
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.20
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