The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Harold Shachner.
Leon Schleifer was born in 1900 in Germany. He served in the German army at the end of World War I (1914-1918). He became a political cartoonist and his work was published in the anti-Nazi press. He also specialized in courtroom trial sketches. After the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, Schliefer emigrated to the United States. He changed his name to William Sharp and continued his career as an editorial cartoonist and illustrator. His work was published in the New York Times, Life Magazine, and other publications. He died in 1961, age sixty-one years.
Image of two men in top hats, gleaming at each other. Figure of an innocent looking man in the center. Bombs or missile shells pointed toward figures from right side of the image. Recto: appears to have been one in graphite that has been erased and is completely illegible.
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overall: Height: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm)
Drawing by William Sharp