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In April 1951, the House Committee of
Un−American Activities accused the artist of
intolerance and chauvinism. It was then that he
communist links. He had to explain his
decided to illustrate the words of President Thomas
membership in organizations of "subversive"
Jefferson, one of the creators of the Declaration of
Independence of the United States, to remind
nature and his support of various actions, such as equality and human rights, became a victim of 4 43 BIOGRAPHY
the Conference for Peace in the World. The man Americans of them. Szyk did not hesitate to show
who had always been a democrat and had devoted that the actions of the authorities are contrary to
his entire life to promoting the ideals of freedom, the ideas that gave rise to a united America.

Work inspired by the words of the
U.S. president, Thomas Jefferson:
"I swear upon altar of God eternal
hostility against every form of Lady Liberty, 1943
tyranny over the mind of man" –
the artist response to the human
rights violation in the U.S,
especially the House Committee
of Un-American Activities,
New Canaan 1951