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Aerial photograph of hundreds of people crowded together on beach with amusement park in background.

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Coney Island Beach

Weegee

1940

Photograph of side of three-story building exterior featuring sleek, curved balconies.

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Tel Aviv

Liselotte Grschebina

1935–1945

Portrait photograph of soldier wearing helmet and stern expression.

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From the series Jewish Soldiers

Helmar (Helmut) Lerski

1940–1942

Comic cover featuring superhero in American patriotic outfit punching Hitler in the face, surrounded by papers depicting invasions, a TV screen, and fascist soldiers with weapons; heading in English across the top.

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Captain America, no. 1, cover

Jack Kirby and Joe Simon

1941

Ceramic oil lamp with seven spouts on a pedestal.

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Seven-spouted Ceramic Oil Lamp

9th–8th Century BCE

Low angle photograph of a man inside a car.

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Self-Portrait in Graham Hollywood Car

Man Ray

1941

Painting of fearful father, mother, and two children in the foreground outside of city buildings, and large cat with a rat in its mouth on top of the buildings in the background.

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Refugees

Josef Herman

1936–1946

Portion of wall fresco depicting carriage, carriage driver, and two horses.

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Carriage Driver (Self-Portrait), Drohobycz

Bruno Schulz

1941–1942

Abstract painting of three women drawing, surrounded by flowers, easels, a chair, garments, and other objects.

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Gouache from Leben? Oder Theater?: Ein Singspiel (Life? or Theater? An Operetta), #4351

Charlotte Salomon

1941–1943

Movie poster featuring image of man and woman cheek-to-cheek, surrounded by English movie title and actors' names.

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Casablanca, Poster for the Film

Bill Gold

1942

Photograph of women and children in ghetto facing photograph on the far side of a fence, interacting with another child on opposite side of fence with Star of David badge on his back.

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Leave Taking before Deportation

Mendel Grossman

1942

Photograph of mother kissing her son, who has a gun and a backpack, in foreground, while another soldier waits in the background on his horse holding the reins of another horse.

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Leaving a Son to the Partisans, Leningrad

Mikhail Trakhman

1942