Laurie Zell collection

Identifier: irn50684
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Laurie Zell.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of two phonograph record sets featuring works created by American artists to protest the actions of Adolf Hitler and the threat of Nazi Germany.

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Phonograph record
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn75262
- English
- Updated 8 months ago
Sound recording of a humoruos song, Mussolini's Letter to Hitler and Hitler's reply, written and performed by Carson Robison with his orchestra in January 1942. It opens with the line: "Dear Adolf, I wrote you a letter." Robison (1890-1957) was a popular American country singer and songwriter, who made frequent radio appearances and toured throughout the country.
Phonograph record
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn75269
- English
- Updated 8 months ago
Recording of the narrative poem, The Murder of Lidice, written by Edna St. Vincent Millay, read by Basil Rathbone, and Blanche Yurka, with an unidentified chorus. Millay (1923- 1950) was one of the most successful and honored poets in America. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the subsequent entry of the US into World War II on December 8, 1941, Millay, a dedicated pacifist, began writing propaganda for the Writers' War Board. She wrote the ballad, Murder of Lidice, in 1942 in response to the Nazi-led annihilation and destruction of the village of Lidice in German occupied Czechoslovaki...

Laurie Zell collection

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Phonograph record