During the years of the Nazi regime, World War II, and the Holocaust, both professional and amateur artists created many different types of visual art to document events, express emotions, and spread propaganda. From sketches and cartoons to maps and paintings, visual artworks are uniquely valuable primary source materials that reflect the experiences of their creators.
visual art
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Propaganda and the American Public
Americans and the HolocaustGerman Leaflet for Black American Soldiers
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustGreta Fischer, Camp Map
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Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustImages from the Liberation of Majdanek and Auschwitz
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Propaganda and the American Public
Americans and the HolocaustLidice: "This Is Nazi Brutality"
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Sexuality, Gender, and Nazi Persecution
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleLithograph by Richard Grune
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Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustOral History with Julia Pirotte
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Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPage from the Wartime Album of George Byfield
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American Witnesses and the Third Reich
Americans and the HolocaustPhotograph of Margaret Bourke-White at Buchenwald
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the HolocaustProgram for the 1936 Schmeling-Louis Bout
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleSelf-Portrait by Franz Karl Bühler
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the HolocaustUntitled Drawing by Arthur Szyk
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Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustZine from German-Occupied Greece
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustZvi Gurvits, "The Book of Life in the Zeilsheim Camp"