Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: 74; bottom right in negative: 203647-S; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in red ink: W W II, Prison Camps; top right in red ink crossed out: Prison Camps / War [illegible]; upper left stamped in red ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: APR 27 1978; by unknown hand, upper right in red ink: 58 / 100 [circled]; center printed in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: Editor, The Times: / Anyone who watched the tele- / cast "Holocaust," or who / read Walt Evans' moving column / about the Holocaust (The Times, / April 17) must be struggling with / some basic questions: / "How could such monstrous / things happen?" / "How did the rest of the world / sit back and allow it to happen?" / "Could it happen again?" / These questions are not easily / answered, but history gives us / some important clues, and the tel- / evision program pointed them out / to us. It is clear that every viola- / ation of human rights which goes / unchecked leads to further abuses. / With the Holocaust in mind, it is / frightening to realize that at this / moment Jews in the Soviet Union / are suffering violations of their / human rights, as well as violations / of Soviet and international law. / Economic discrimination / against Jews is widespread." The right to emigrate, guaran- / teed by the Helsinki accords, is / routinely denied. / Mandatory personal-identity / cards are stamped, "Jew." No / other religious group is so identi- / fied. / Dissenters are classified as / mental patients and sent to / "sanatoriums." / How could it have happened in / German in the '30s? How could it / be happening in Russia in the '70s? / How did the world sit back and / watch the Nazis? / How does the / world sit back and watch the Rus- / sians? / --Harvey S. Poll / Seattle; by unknown hand, lower left in red pencil: War Prisons; lower left: M; lower center in purple ink: Allies; lower center in red pencil: Europe; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: IN BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMP--Emaciated / slave laborers lie in their crowded, rough bunks in the Buchenwald / concentration camp near Jena, Germany, as they were found when / United States troops of the 80th Division entered the camp. This pho- / tograph was made April 16 by the Signal Corps. --Wirephoto.; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: Slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp, as they / were found when American soldiers entered the camp. This Associat- / ed press photo was made April 16, 1945.; lower right stamped twice in blue ink: APR 29 1945; lower right stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: APR 27, 1978