Keywords: Nazi
Item 104350
"Deliver us from evil: buy war bonds," World War II poster, 1943
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1943 Media: Lithograph
Item 13526
Site of the Houlton Army Air Base, 2003
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 2003-12-12 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Passing the Time: Artwork by World War II German POWs
In 1944, the US Government established Camp Houlton, a prisoner of war (POW) internment camp for captured German soldiers during World War II. Many of the prisoners worked on local farms planting and harvesting potatoes. Some created artwork and handicrafts they sold or gave to camp guards. Camp Houlton processed and held about 3500 prisoners and operated until May 1946.
Exhibit
Samantha Smith, a Manchester schoolgirl, gained international fame in 1983 by asking Soviet leader Yuri Andropov whether he intended to start a nuclear war and then visiting the Soviet Union to be reassured that no one there wanted war.
Site Page
"… Poland, before he and his family fled from Nazi Germany to Canada around 1938. The family, including five sons, moved to Maine in 1946 where…"
Story
Creating the Purr-Sist button
by Ellen Crocker
Motivated by the Women's March and Sen. Warren, I created these buttons
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
