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Milwaukee County War Memorial Center

Date: 1956
Description: A monument to Milwaukeeans killed in the Second World War and the Korean Conflict. Night view, with building lit internally.
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Breaking the Blockade

Date: 05 05 1949
Description: Several days before the Berlin Blockade was to be lifted, Russian authorities permitted this West Berlin couple to purchase potatoes in the eastern sector....
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Berlin Reporter

Date: 1940
Description: Associated Press journalist Alvin Steinkopf, formerly of Milwaukee, photographed on the streets of Berlin. Steinkopf was in Berlin until after Pearl Harbor...
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Destroying the Temple

Date: 1939
Description: A snapshot, taken during the summer, of the Jewish temple being demolished in Danzig.
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Jewish Ghetto in Poland

Date: 10 1940
Description: A street scene in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland. In his scrapbook, journalist Alvin Steinkopf, who took the picture, noted that conditions were f...

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