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- World War II Concentration Camp Uniform, 1940-1945 - This uniform was worn by a Polish-Catholic survivor of concentration camps at Dachau, Mauthausen, and Augsburg. Teenager Jan Kamienski was captured by German troops from his hometown of Posnan and forced into a concentration camp in 1940, surviving until the liberation of the camp at Augsburg in 1945. He immigrated to Detroit in 1951 and brought this uniform with him.
- 1940-1945
- Collections - Artifact
World War II Concentration Camp Uniform, 1940-1945
This uniform was worn by a Polish-Catholic survivor of concentration camps at Dachau, Mauthausen, and Augsburg. Teenager Jan Kamienski was captured by German troops from his hometown of Posnan and forced into a concentration camp in 1940, surviving until the liberation of the camp at Augsburg in 1945. He immigrated to Detroit in 1951 and brought this uniform with him.
- Advertising Blotter, "Just Born-All Americans! Don't Infect Them with Racial and Religious Hate," circa 1949 - During World War II, the Anti-Defamation League established organizations to create public campaigns to promote democratic principles and cooperation between all races, religions, and classes. One of its organizations, the Institute for American Democracy, distributed posters, blotters, bookmarks, book covers, and other materials well into the 1950s to try to counteract discrimination and foster tolerance in the United States.
- 1949
- Collections - Artifact
Advertising Blotter, "Just Born-All Americans! Don't Infect Them with Racial and Religious Hate," circa 1949
During World War II, the Anti-Defamation League established organizations to create public campaigns to promote democratic principles and cooperation between all races, religions, and classes. One of its organizations, the Institute for American Democracy, distributed posters, blotters, bookmarks, book covers, and other materials well into the 1950s to try to counteract discrimination and foster tolerance in the United States.