This is Nazi Brutality
Maker
Ben Shahn
(American, born in Lithuania, 1898 - 1969)
Date1942
MediumCommercial color photo-offset lithograph
DimensionsSheet: 37 1/2 x 28 1/4 in. (95.3 x 71.8 cm)
Framed: 51 3/16 × 41 1/8 × 1 7/16 in. (130 × 104.5 × 3.7 cm)
Framed: 51 3/16 × 41 1/8 × 1 7/16 in. (130 × 104.5 × 3.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mary and Roy Cullen
CopyrightCopyright managed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Object number2001.88
Status
Not on view
![Untitled [They moved to the Delta, land of milk and honey.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9880/thumbnail)
![Untitled [The plough and hoe and such'll keep knowledge out of a person's head.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9881/thumbnail)
![Untitled [They rarely attended school more than four or five months a year.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9882/thumbnail)
![Untitled [She was born in June and she was beautiful.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9883/thumbnail)
![Untitled [We were anxious to get up North where they had the opportunity to go to school and all these privileges...]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9884/thumbnail)
![Untitled [How can a black man disappear?]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9885/thumbnail)
![Untitled [...drawing rooms and butler's pantries now rented out as "apartments".]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9886/thumbnail)
![Untitled [...he got his furniture out of storage, and that night he and his wife hired a taxi and took their six young children there.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9887/thumbnail)
![Untitled [...and Velvena was playing at studying though she was only four.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9888/thumbnail)
![Untitled [I cannot understand how she escaped....It was a miracle. The lord was with her.]](/internal/media/dispatcher/9889/thumbnail)