The poster was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by an Anonymous donor.
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.
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1945 April 11, approximately 1954 April 11
overall: Height: 23.250 inches (59.055 cm) | Width: 33.000 inches (83.82 cm)
"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.
10th Anniversary of the Liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp Poster for the 10th Anniversary of the Liberation of Buchenwald