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(b) "a collection of caricatures that were drawn at Tittmoning and are on view through March 31 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. Max Brandel, a Jewish artist from Poland, made the sketches in 1943 for a fellow inmate, Jerome Mahrer, a Manhattan-born Jewish schoolboy. * * * He [Jerome] and his wife, Carolyn, donated the album to the museum in 1999, and information is still being gleaned about its contents. Its cover was made from a Red Cross box, stamped “package for prisoner of war,” by another inmate, Peter Rosenbaum, a German Jewish teenager whose family had acquired Salvadoran passports. Mr Brandel had wangled a Costa Rican passport."
(i) Handmade Album Made for Jerome Mahrer. Museum of Jewish Heritage, undated
http://collection.mjhnyc.org/index.php?g=detail&object_id=740
("Gift of Jerome and Carolyn Mahrer; Id no. 1999.A.482, Document, b; May 01 1943 to September 30 1944, Germany, Tittmoning)
Why the album stopped in 1944 was not explained, by the Museum or the NYT review.
(ii) "Salvadoran passports"
Unlike present-day China, Bazi Germany respected international laws (at least some). A foreign passport came in handy.
(iii) wrangle (vt): "to obtain by persistent arguing or maneuvering"http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wrangle
(c) "Sitters [models] for some of the images inscribed [wrote; from Latin inscribere, from in- + scribere to write] the pages. The wrestler Kemal Abdul Rahman Berry, whose professional name was Reginald Siki, wrote, 'Let’s keep going!' The pianist Freddy Johnson noted the title of a song, 'September in the Rain,' that the young Jerome was trying to master on the accordion. 'Squeeze Box Man' was the guitarist and banjoist John Mitchell's nickname for the boy [Jerome]. 'Keep still, Jerry's there!' Mr Rosenbaum wrote on his portrait. He was referring to older inmates' shushing one another when they did not want the boy to overhear something."
(i) squeezebox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezebox
(also squeeze box, squeeze-box)
(ii) Jerry (given name)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_(given_name)
(a diminutive form of Gerald, Gerard, Geraldine, Jeremy, Jeremiah or Jerome)
The 59-year-old bride of Rupert Murdoch (they got married on Mar 4, ten days ago) had a birth name Jerry Faye Hall.
(iii) Max Brandel, the Mahrer brothers, Peter Rosenbaum were white and Jewish. Freddy Johnson (1904-1961; an American jazz pianist and singer) was black. And there is no inforaiton about guitarist John Mitchell.
(d) "Jerome Mahrer was born in New York in 1929; his father, Paul, a soccer star on Czechoslovakia's Olympic team [and a Czech national rather than an American, judging from the context], had been playing for American leagues. The family later returned to Prague. When businesses stopped serving Jews, Jerome, as an American citizen, was still allowed to go to stores and to the movies. (He has kept some brittle reddish ticket stubs from Prague, including one from a theater named Olympic.) When the family was deported [out of Czechoslovakia and dispersed to various POW camps], his father was sent to Theresienstadt, where the Nazis made propaganda films of him playing soccer."
Theresienstadt concentration camp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theresienstadt_concentration_camp
(e) "paintings and sketches by Josef Nassy, a black artist of Jewish descent who was imprisoned at Tittmoning. He was a Suriname native who had a United States passport and a Belgian wife. Many of his portraits of inmates, including those of the African-Americans and the Mahrer brothers, belong to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington."
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