Charles R. Hazard and The Baltimore Sun collection

Identifier: irn77775
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Charles R. Hazard and The Baltimore Sun.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of fifteen courtroom sketches created by Charles R. Hazard for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the postwar deportation trials of Karlis Detlavs and George Theodorovich in Baltimore, Maryland, for withholding information about their involvement with war crimes in Eastern Europe during World War II.

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Displaying items 1 to 15 of 15

Drawing of judge speaking to defendant, an accused Latvian war criminal
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1163
- English
- overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the November 1977 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts Detlavs, his daughter, and the Honorable Martin J. Travers, a federal immigration judge for the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during World War II (1939-1945). He was accused of executing Jews in the Riga ghetto and selecting Jews for e...
Drawing of judge at trial of suspected Latvian war criminal
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1164
- English
- overall: Height: 13.625 inches (34.608 cm) | Width: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Courtroom drawing depicting Judge Emil Bobek created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the 1979 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during World War II (1939-1945). He was accused of executing Jews in the Riga ghetto and selecting Jews for execution in the Dwinsk ghetto in 1943, while a member of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police during the German occupation. In 1950, Detlavs emigrat...
Sketch of three spectators at trial of accused Latvian war criminal
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1165
- English
- overall: Height: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm) | Width: 10.125 inches (25.718 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the 1979 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. The drawing depicts three courtroom spectators, including a man wearing a kippah. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during World War II (1939-1945). He was accused of executing Jews in the Riga ghetto and selecting Jews for execution in the Dwinsk ghetto in 1943, while a member of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police...
Drawing of defendant and US attorney at trial of suspected Latvian war criminal
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1166
- English
- overall: Height: 13.625 inches (34.608 cm) | Width: 10.625 inches (26.988 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the 1979 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. The drawing depicts Detlavs on the witness stand begin questioned by United States attorney George Parker through a court-appointed Latvian interpreter. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during World War II (1939-1945). He was accused of executing Jews in the Riga ghetto and selecting Jews for execution in the Dwinsk ...
Drawing of Holocaust survivor testifying at trial of accused Latvian war criminal
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1167
- English
- overall: Height: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm) | Width: 10.125 inches (25.718 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the 1979 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts eyewitness Frida Michelson testifying that Detlavs was the guard who forced her to the execution pit during the massacre in the Rumbula Forest in December 1941. Michelson survived by hiding under a pile of discarded shoes. She identified Detlavs from a 1941 photo shown to her by Israeli police in the 1970s, but did not identify him in person at the trial. Detlavs was accused of withholding informatio...
Drawing of accused Latvian war criminal on the stand
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1168
- English
- overall: Height: 13.625 inches (34.608 cm) | Width: 10.625 inches (26.988 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the 1979 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts defendant Karlis Detlavs on the witness stand. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during World War II (1939-1945). He was accused of executing Jews in the Riga ghetto and selecting Jews for execution in the Dwinsk ghetto in 1943, while a member of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police during the German occup...
Double sided drawing of expert witness at trial of suspected Ukrainian war criminal
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1169
- English
- 1985
- overall: Height: 14.625 inches (37.148 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Two sided drawing of Raul Hilberg, government's opening witness, created by Charles (Hap) Hazard at the deportation trial of George Theodorovich in 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland. In August 1983, the OSI brought charges against Theodorovich for killing unarmed Jews. Theodorovich was stripped of his US citizenship in 1984. His disappeared from his home and was the subject of a federal manhunt. After his capture in Philadelphia, he was tried for moral turpitude and failure to disclose wartine activities. In 1987, Theodorovich was found guilty and ordered deported in 1988 because of his involveme...
Drawing of judge and US attorney at trial of accused Latvian war criminal
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1170
- English
- overall: Height: 14.250 inches (36.195 cm) | Width: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the November 1977 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts the Honorable Martin J. Travers, a federal immigration judge for the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and three federal attorneys for the prosecution, including lead INS attorney James Grable. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during World War II (1939-1945). He was accus...
Drawing of a Holocaust survivor tesifying at trial of accused Latvian war criminal
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1171
- English
- overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the November 1977 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts It depicts Jacob Wagenheim, a Holocaust survivor and witness, testifying about Detlavs involvement, and the Yiddish interpreter, Moses Aberbach. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during World War II (1939-1945). He was accused of executing Jews in the Riga ghetto and selecting Jews for execution in...
Drawing of eyewitness and interpreter at trial of accused Latvian war criminal
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1172
- English
- overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the November 1977 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts It depicts Jacob Wagenheim, a Holocaust survivor and witness, testifying about Detlavs involvement, and the Yiddish interpreter, Moses Aberbach. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during World War II (1939-1945). He was accused of executing Jews in the Riga ghetto and selecting Jews for execution in...
Drawing of accuser and accused at trial of suspected Latvian war criminal
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1173
- English
- overall: Height: 14.250 inches (36.195 cm) | Width: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the November 1977 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts Detlavs, his daughter, and their attorney, looking at Holocaust survivor and prosecution witness, Boris Tsesvan, and Yiddish interpreter, Moses Aberbach. Tsesvan identified Detlavs as one of the uniformed guards who beat and took away another Jewish forced laborer from the Hotel Roma in Riga, Latvia, in June 1943. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent r...
Drawing of eyewitness identifying defendant at trial of Latvian war criminal
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1174
- English
- overall: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 16.875 inches (42.863 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the November 1977 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts Detlavs and his daughter looking at the Yiddish interpreter, Mr. Smolar, and a Holocaust survivor and witness for the prosecution. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during World War II (1939-1945). He was accused of executing Jews in the Riga ghetto and selecting Jews for execution in the Dwinsk gh...
Drawing of Holocaust survivor testifying at trial of suspected Latvian war criminal
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1175
- English
- overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 10.375 inches (26.353 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the November 1977 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts Detlavs, Holocaust survivor and prosecution witness, Boris Tsesvan, and Yiddish interpreter, Moses Aberbach. Tsesvan identified Detlavs as one of the uniformed guards who beat and took away another Jewish forced laborer from the Hotel Roma in Riga, Latvia, in June 1943. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war c...
Drawing of guards and JDL protestors at trial of suspected Latvian war criminal
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1176
- English
- overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 14.125 inches (35.878 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the November 1977 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts three courtroom officers approaching three Jewish Defense League (JDL) members protesting the Honorable Martin J. Travers, the federal immigration judge for the case, issuing a continuance to allow the prosecution to seek more evidence from Soviet sources. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during W...
Drawing of lawyer questioning eyewitness at trial of accused Latvian war criminal
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1177
- English
- overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 16.875 inches (42.863 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the November 1977 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts Detlavs's lawyer questioning an unseen person, while standing next to a seated Detlavs and his daughter in a crowded courtroom. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during World War II (1939-1945). He was accused of executing Jews in the Riga ghetto and selecting Jews for execution in the Dwinsk ghett...