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The Sowers by Thomas Hart Benton, 1942

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Threesome (1944), by Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944)

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Children as well as adults documented events of the Holocaust through art

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Laufen (undated), by Josef Nassy (1904-1976), a Black expatriate of Jewish descent
who was one of 2,000 internees with American passports held prisoner in
Germany during WWII

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1942. Esther Lurie

described here new deportees arriving
in the ghetto

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Unable to Work by David Olère

Inability to work was often an immediate death sentence

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By Felix Nussbaum. Born in 1904, he died at Auschwitz in 1944

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The Food of the Dead for the Living

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Jews in the Hospital, by Aldo Carpi, 1945

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"Forced Labor - Building a Tunnel" by David Olere, 1945.
Given severely limited food rations, prisoners
were exploited in hard labor, such as the digging
of a tunnel, depicted here in watercolor and
charcoal. Those unable to work were killed.
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Kommando, by Fernand Van Horen

a Belgian survivor

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Normal Life in Flossenburg

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Gassing

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"Zyclon B cans"

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Arrival of a Convoy

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