us-005578-irn82297-irn12509
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title: Caricature by Bill Spira of bespectacled man
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biographical history: Bill Spira, a cartoonist, was also known as Bil Freier. He was originally from Austria. During the Holocaust he forged passports for the Emergency Rescue Committee. Despite Varian Fry's (an American ERC representative) intervention, he was arrested and deported to Auschwitz. He survived the camp.
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archival history: The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997 by Annette Fry.