Africans is part of Welcome to Cleveland, Home of the... a series of prints dealing with issues of stereotyping Native Americans and other racial groups.
Creator:
Oscar Arredondo
Created:
2000
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
The title of the painting comes from a line in T.S. Eliot's 1920 poem "Gerontion," excerpted below by artist: "After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think nowHistory has many cunning passages, contrived corridorsAnd issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,Guides us by vanities. Think nowShe gives when our attention is distractedAnd what she...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
A Jewish Boy at Zeilsheim, Germany, Children's Center Awaits Transport to Palestine, 1946. "I would love to find this 'boy' again-where has he been since 1946?"-Maxine Rude
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
A Jewish Orphan cared for by a German Nun, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Children's Center, Kloster-Indersdorf, near Augsburg, Germany, 1945.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Altar Boys before a Painting of the Black Madonna. Copy of the painting done by a Polish Displaced Person at the Insul Camp, Berchtesgaden, Germany, 1945.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
On April 19, 1943, the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto began. The remaining Jewish population, depleted by transports to the death camp at Treblinka, was exterminated. Units of SS stormed the Ghetto under the command of General Stroop. Unexpectedly, Jewish resistance was strong, and it took more than a month for the Germans to subdue the Warsaw...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
The infamous gate with the inscription Arbeit Macht Frei (Work Makes You Free) is located at the main camp of Auschwitz. Watercolor created for the 1994 documentary short, Choosing One's Way: Resistance in Auschwitz/ Birkenau.
Creator:
Krimstein, Jordan, -2015
Created:
2004
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Slogan over the main entrance to Auschwitz I. Many artists during and after the Holocaust used the image of a crucified Christ to represent the Jewish people, most famously Marc Chagall’s White Crucifixion (1938). In this image, "Work Makes You Free" replaces the typical Latin INRI, Iesvs Nazarenvs Rex Ivdaeorvm (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the J...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Created:
1990?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Ilse Koch, "The Bitch of Buchenwald" (as she was called due to her cruelty and sadistic treatment of prisoners), was a member of the Nazi party and the wife of concentration camp commandant Karl Otto Koch. Together they shared a passion for collecting patches of tattooed human skin and shrunken human heads. Ilse was the one who selected the livi...
Creator:
Hirschberger, Fritz, 1912-2004
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Boy and Infant: World War II : Lost Children, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Children's Center. Kloster Indersdorf, Germany, 1945. Within the gloomy confine of an old monastery, without parents or home, a young boy cares for an infant he had never known before. The pathway to their security was not yet real, onl...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Displaced Persons United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) Camp Firefighters, Germany, 1946. The firefighters are wearing German Wehrmacht helmets painted black.
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
The "Un sac de Billes" Lithographs are based on French Holocaust survivor, Joseph Joffo's (1931-) memoir "Un sac de Billes" (A Bag of Marbles) published in 1973. The book is based on Joffo and his brother's experience during World War II, after their father gives them 5000 francs and instructions to flee Nazi-occupied Paris and, somehow, get to ...
Creator:
Moretti, Lucien Philippe, 1922-2000
Created:
1973?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Catholics is part of Welcome to Cleveland, Home of the... a series of prints dealing with issues of stereotyping Native Americans and other racial groups.
Creator:
Oscar Arredondo
Created:
2000
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.