Drawing by William Sharp
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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.
The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Ruth Sharp, the wife of William Sharp.
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Drawing by William Sharp
overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 7.880 inches (20.015 cm)
Created by William Sharp, circa 1933.
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Image of a man being escorted down the street by a policeman and a big burly man."Schlossbrau" can be read on the sign of the building behind the men. Other words erased below the title at bottom of sheet but visible,"----- verhaftet eine betrunken(er) Freitag ab----"