Gift of Jerome and Carolyn Mahrer

Id no. 1999.A.482, Document, b

May 01 1943 to September 30 1944, Germany, Tittmoning

Subject(s):  Blacks, Defiance-religious and cultural, Visual arts, Culture, Camps

Max Brandel drew the caricatures in this album in the Tittmoning Internment Camp in Germany in 1943 for Jerome Mahrer, the youngest prisoner in the camp. Peter Rosenbaum made the album from an American Red Cross relief package so that the drawings would be protected .

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