Yehuda Nir papers
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5 oversize boxes
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- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Yehuda Nir
Collection consisting of magazines, newspapers, sheet music, documents, correspondence, scrip, booklets, pamphlets, books, playbills, political cartoons, leaflets, cigarette cards, and a patch (possibly fake)
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Record last modified: 2018-07-05 09:25:34
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Also in Yehuda Nir collection
The collection consists of artifacts: a badge, cigarette cards, leaflets, posters, and scrip and correspondence, documents, sheet music, and publications relating to the history of the Holocaust in Europe.
Ben Shahn poster with an image of a hooded man protesting the Nazi destruction of Lidice
Object
Poster created by Ben Shahn for the US Office of War Information as a response to the Nazi-led annihilation and destruction of communities throughout the Czech Republic, including Lidice. It protests the retaliatory measures taken for the assassination by Czech resistance members of Reinhard Heydrich, a close associate of Himmler and Hitler and major implementor of the Final Solution for the Jewish problem. On May 1942, when Heydrich was acting Reich Protector in the former Czech provinces of Bohemia and Moravia, a hand grenade exploded under his car in Prague. Heydrich died on June 4 as a result of his injuries. Hitler personally ordered the destruction of Lidice, which occurred June 9, in retaliation for Heydrich's death.
Ben Shahn poster with an image of men with their arms raised in surrender
Object
Poster created by Ben Shahn for the US Office of War Information in 1942.
