Album page [LCID: 2004ohbn]
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Beifeld album page about Soviet counteroffensive

(Top and bottom) The image at the top shows Hungarian soldiers abandoning their trenches on the front lines as a Soviet tank overruns the barbed wire fortification separating the two armies. The drawing at the bottom captioned "Alarm," shows Hungarian soldiers running back and forth sounding the alarm of the Soviet counteroffensive. The drawings are dated Jan 11 and 13, 1943. [Photograph #58103]

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What was the context of the Holocaust and World War II when Beifeld created the illustrations that were later assembled into the album?

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forced labor Soviet Union Hungary art artists albums
  • Courtesy of the estate of George Byfield
  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum

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