Title from caption on object: “Mass Annihilation”
April 12, 1945
John Florea
Artist, American, 1916 - 2000
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 16.9 × 16.9 cm (6 5/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
sheet: 18.9 × 18.1 cm (7 7/16 × 7 1/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2018.177.367
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, top left printed in black ink on applied label: CONCENTRATION CAMPS, AXIS AND / RUSSIAN CAMPS; by unknown hand, upper left in red ink perpendicular and crossed out: concentration ca[mps]; upper left stamped in blue ink inverted: May 6 1945; lower center printed in purple ink on applied paper inverted: LF 757896 WP. . . . . .NEW YORK BUREAU / MASS ANNIHILATION / NORDHAUSEN, GERMANY -- ROW UPON ROW OF STARVED / EMACIATED BODIES FILL THE YARD OF LAGER / NORDHAUSEN, MUCH-BOMBED GERMAN CONCENTRATION / CAMP NEAR NORDHAUSEN, GERMANY. SEVERAL / HUNDRED INMATES ARE BELIEVED TO EITHER HAVE / DIED OF STARVATION OR BEEN SHOT BY THE / GESTAPO. REPORTS FROM G-2, 104TH INFANTRY, / U.S. FIRST ARMY, DIVISION WHICH CAPTURED THE / CAMP, STATE THAT THERE WERE 3,000 OR 4,000 / INMATES, INCLUDING FRENCH, POLISH, BELGIAN, / A FEW RUSSIAN, AND SEVERAL GERMAN POLITICAL / PRISONERS -- ALL OF WHOM WERE MALTREATED, / BEATEN, AND STARVED. / BU DJH SPL MEX SJ #i 70 MGS LVL S&S CAN / CREDIT (ACME) (WP) 4/25/45 (MD)