Yehuda Nir collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521355
• English
• oversize boxes 5
• Updated 7 months ago

Collection consisting of magazines, newspapers, sheet music, documents, correspondence, scrip, booklets, pamphlets, books, playbills, political cartoons, leaflets, cigarette cards, and a patch (possibly fake).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521356
• English
• 1942
• overall: Height: 37.750 inches (95.885 cm) | Width: 28.375 inches (72.073 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

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 ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521357
• English
• 1942
• overall: Height: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm) | Width: 39.875 inches (101.283 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Poster created by Ben Shahn for the US Office of War Information in 1942.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522701
• English
• 1928-1946
• oversize box 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection consists of World War II-era newspapers and magazines, American propaganda, scrip from Dora-Mittelbau, sheet music for Zionist songs, and other materials.