us-005578-irn90441-irn3697
type: RecordSet
archival history: The poster was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by an Anonymous donor.
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Black and white poster commemorating the liberation of German concentration camps. At the top center, black text is against a white background which is surrounded by 10 captioned photographs in 3 rows. The top row has 2 photos, from left; an emaciated male prisoner stands in front of others lying in their bunks and a crematory with a long chimney and a group of people walking beside it. The middle row shows a photograph of a diorama depicting prisoners working in the camp among several tents, a barred and chain linked gate with a sign in German reading: JEDEM DAS SEINE [each his own], the entrance to the camp, and a procession of people lead by a man with a large horizontally stripped flag at the 1954 Ceremony of remembrance. The bottom row shows a dead man in his striped uniform lying among other corpses, a lampshade made from human skin featuring a tattoo of a winged female, a decapitated mummified head with a description card and the widow’s procession at the Ceremony of Remembrance. On the bottom right is the logo for FIR (International Federation of Resistance Fighters), an inverted cone with FIR on the surface and a fire burning from the base. The top edge has a vertical tear and horizontal creases, the right edge has several small tears and the bottom edge has several small creases.
conditions of access: No restrictions on access
conditions of use: No restrictions on use
date: 1945 April 11, approximately 1954 April 11
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: deu
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn3697
is or was included in: us-005578-irn90441
record resource extent: overall: Height: 23.250 inches (59.055 cm) | Width: 33.000 inches (83.82 cm)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: "10 Jahrestag der Befreiund der Konzentrationslager / Buchenwald.."; b/w photographic images of the camp and text describing Nazi horrors from 1945 and 1954. Printed and distributed by Leroy Andre of Vienna for the International Federation of Resistors.
title: 10th Anniversary of the Liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp Poster for the 10th Anniversary of the Liberation of Buchenwald