Title from caption on object: "Starved Maltreated Prisoners at Buchenwald Concentration Camp Now Getting Good Care…”

April 1945

Charles Haacker

Artist, American, 1916 - 1952

ACME Newspictures

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.1 × 21.7 cm (6 3/4 × 8 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 18 × 22.8 cm (7 1/16 × 9 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.365

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Ebay.com); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

across bottom printed in image: NY352-4/29-Starved maltreated prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp / now getting good care from Yank liberators. Emaciated man (foreground), Hunga- / rian Jew, is so thin his backbone can be seen from the front. Many, past all / help, will die, others be saved. (ACME Telephoto by Charles Haacker); on verso, upper center stamped in red ink: AUG 27 1993; center right Acme copyright stamp in black ink perpendicular; center right stamped in red ink perpendicular: APR 30 1945; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: World War II- Germany-Concentration Camp

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