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Title: Dora Concentration Camp : Barracks commemoration to Belgian prisoners
Creator: Mezga, Duane
Date: 1992-06
Photographed Site: Dora Concentration Camp
Collection: Duane Mezga Holocaust Sites Photograph Collection
Description: Barracks commemoration to Belgian prisoners

Title: Gemeinsam kämpfen, gemeinsam siegen : Klasse gegen Klasse - für den Kommunismus
Date: 1988/1989
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a clenched fist held up between two cell bars. To the left of that image is a star. In the center of the star is a smaller black star with CCC across it and "Cellules Communistes Combattantes" encircling it. Text on the lower half of the poster gives the approximate dates the prisoners began their hunger strikes. Strike demands are also listed: housing all four in the same prison, an 8 hour work day, access to correspondence, allowance of two unrelated visitors per prisoner,...
Show morePoster shows a clenched fist held up between two cell bars. To the left of that image is a star. In the center of the star is a smaller black star with CCC across it and "Cellules Communistes Combattantes" encircling it. Text on the lower half of the poster gives the approximate dates the prisoners began their hunger strikes. Strike demands are also listed: housing all four in the same prison, an 8 hour work day, access to correspondence, allowance of two unrelated visitors per prisoner, permission to read and possess political materials, and permission to wear civilian clothing. Includes the prisoners' addresses (in two separate prisons) in Brussels, Belgium and the prisoners' names: Pascale Vandegeerde, Bertrand Sassoye, Pierre Carette, and Didier Chevolt. The poster shows solidarity for imprisoned communist comrades. Poster printed in black and yellow ink.
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Title: Solidarité : CCC
Date: 1984/1985
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows a brawny man shouting with his right arm raised above his head, fist clenched. Above him is a large black star with the letters CCC below it denoting Communist Combatant Cells, a Belgian terrorist organization active in the mid-1980s and linked to several bombings. Ink is black.

Title: Soutenons la lutte des 4 combattants communistes prisonniers
Date: 1986
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster text overlays an image of two men with fists raised above their heads. The text calls for support of four imprisoned communist fighters on a hunger strike. The four are members of the Fighting Communist Cells in Belgium. Ink is black and red.

Title: Interview of Dorothy M. Harrison on her service in the American Red Cross during WWII
Creator: Harrison, Dorothy M. (Dorothy McDonald), 1914-2004
Date: 1983
Collection: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Description: In a 1983 oral history interview, Dorothy M. Harrison talks about her childhood in Royal Oak, MI, attending the University of Michigan and her service in the American Red Cross during World War Two. Harrison says she volunteered for the ARC in late 1942 and after receiving their training, her unit was shipped to Europe as part of a forty-ship convoy which was attacked by a German submarine during the crossing. Harrison also talks about opening a service club with the 93rd Heavy Bombardment...
Show moreIn a 1983 oral history interview, Dorothy M. Harrison talks about her childhood in Royal Oak, MI, attending the University of Michigan and her service in the American Red Cross during World War Two. Harrison says she volunteered for the ARC in late 1942 and after receiving their training, her unit was shipped to Europe as part of a forty-ship convoy which was attacked by a German submarine during the crossing. Harrison also talks about opening a service club with the 93rd Heavy Bombardment Group in Hardwick, England, moving to the 337th General Service Engineers and later to the 363rd Photo Reconnaissance Group as part of the push across Germany as the war ended. She describes her quarters, her duties, celebrating Christmas with the troops during the Battle of the Bulge, struggling to get the equipment and supplies she needed to keep the clubs running, and the sexual harassment she experienced. Harrison says that she returned to the U.S. in September 1945, resumed her career as a librarian and married and moved with her husband to Louisville, KY to raise a family.
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Title: La solidarité : notre arme
Date: 2001/201x
Collection: Leftist Political Posters Collection
Description: Poster shows the right half of the symbol representing the Secours rouge group in Belgium. (The whole symbol would show four vertical bars, two crossbars, and a large red star with half behind the bars and half in front. A smaller red star appears at the top left of the symbol.) On this poster, Secours rouge calls for solidarity in support of resistance to all forms of class repression, capitalism and imperialistism. Also calls for support of political prisoners. "La solidarité" is printed...
Show morePoster shows the right half of the symbol representing the Secours rouge group in Belgium. (The whole symbol would show four vertical bars, two crossbars, and a large red star with half behind the bars and half in front. A smaller red star appears at the top left of the symbol.) On this poster, Secours rouge calls for solidarity in support of resistance to all forms of class repression, capitalism and imperialistism. Also calls for support of political prisoners. "La solidarité" is printed in red. Ink is black and red.
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