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Warsaw Ghetto Memorial (Warsaw, Poland)
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When the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial was erected in 1948, it stood amid the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. One of the key intentions was to convey the message that Jews had not gone to their deaths in the…

Contributor:

Nathan Rapoport

Places:

Warsaw, Republic of Poland (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1948

Subjects:

Memorial, Jewish quarters, Activism, Holocaust, Cities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Sculpture
Photograph of tall, rectangular monument in front of apartment buildings, depicting seven figures gathered around central figure and smaller sculpture of a seven-branched menorah flanked by lions in front of monument in left foreground.
Figures in the Nisko Camp, Poland
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As a prisoner in the Nisko labor camp in Poland in 1939 and 1940, Leo Haas painted portraits of SS men in exchange for extra food rations and art supplies. He also documented the daily lives of…

Contributor:

Leo Haas

Places:

Nisko, Poland

Date:

1939

Subjects:

Holocaust, Labor, Slavery, Cities, Jewish quarters

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Line drawing of the faces of men and women close together in a cramped room.
Façades for the International Commission
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In the Terezin concentration camp, before a visit by the International Red Cross and the Danish Red Cross in 1944, the Nazis created an elaborate ruse, designed to convince the delegation that the…

Contributor:

Bedrich Fritta

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Date:

1943–1944

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Genocide, Nazis, Holocaust

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Sketch of storefronts next to a pile of corpses and brick wall and a couple is kissing against a wall in left foreground.