Completed days after Rabbi Stephen S. Wise relayed the State Department’s report that Nazis had already killed two million Jews, Szyk drew a Jewish soldier holding an American-made submachine gun and yelling in outrage as he rises from a mass of dead and dying Jews, victims of Nazi hatred. This image appeared in the full-page ad “Action—Not Pity” in the February 8, 1943, edition of the New York Times. The inscription originally read, “To those of my people who fight for the right to die with their boots on: my pride, my love, my devotion.” In a bitter aside to those who chose to ignore the plight of the Jews, Szyk later added, “(To those of you, who tuned in late…)”.