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Kerch, Crimea (Grief)
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When Dmitri Baltermants took this picture in January 1942, he and the other Soviet photographers who were accompanying liberating troops did not at first understand what they were seeing. Were these…

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Dmitri Baltermants

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1942

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Photography, War, Communism, Activism, Violence

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Visual & Material Culture, Photography, Political Culture
Photograph of people standing in a field upon which lie dead bodies.
We Will Never Die! Constitution Hall, Washington D.C., poster
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In 1942, Arthur Szyk produced this poster, called Tears of Rage, for a series of pageants mounted by Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht and militant Zionist leader Peter Bergson to protest inaction…

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Arthur Szyk

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1943

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Activism, War, Violence, Holocaust, Cities

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Visual & Material Culture, Political Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Poster featuring soldier raising gun in the air wearing a helmet with Star of David, with his left arm around a rabbi holding Torah, two sad women in the foreground holding a child, another man to the left in handcuffs, and English writing on the bottom.
Blessed Is the Match: The Story of Jewish Resistance
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Why do I begin with the parachutists? Were I to trace the story of Jewish resistance and rescue chronologically, I would have to use a different order. I would have to begin with the gradual…

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Marie Syrkin

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1947

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Holocaust, Resistance, Violence, Memory, Activism

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History, Historical Writing, Anthologies, Memoirs & Diaries