Mortimer Schaffer collection

Identifier: irn85608
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn85608

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Mortimer Schaffer.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of Nazi propaganda slides.

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Displaying items 1 to 20 of 55

Box of slides depicting propaganda of Nazi Germany and Europe
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25801
- English
- Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 2.130 inches (5.41 cm) | Depth: 216.500 inches (549.91 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Glass slide depicting exterior view of a synagogue in New York
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25802
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide depicting a German workers' neighborhood/settlement
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25803
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide depicting a group of African-American men
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25804
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide depicting a German farm house
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25805
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide depicting a [German American?] under American police custody
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25806
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide depicting Eleanor Roosevelt greeting a group of African American women
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25807
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide depicting US President F.D. Roosevelt, Secretary of War, Knox, and Supreme Court Justice, Frankfurter
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25808
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide depicting group of "unemployed" on a New York street at night
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25809
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide depicting rural family (presumably in USA)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25810
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide depicting exterior of tenement buildings in New York City
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25811
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide depicting exterior view of New York businesses bearing Jewish names
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25812
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Glass slide depicting barren farm in western USA
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25813
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide depicting a German mother and her children
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25814
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide depicting poor, possibly homeless individuals on a New York City street corner
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25815
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide depicting New York City Mayor, La Guardia, with a female dinner guest (who the caption implies to be a Jew)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25816
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide depicting a crowded multiracial street scene in New York City
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25817
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide portrait of a Jewish man
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25818
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide depicting American President, F.D. Roosevelt, and several Jewish leaders
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25819
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.
Slide depicting a shantytown outside of an American city
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25820
- English
- Height: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Width: 1.930 inches (4.902 cm) | Depth: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Obtained by an American G.I. in a home during the final stages of the war in Europe.