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1. Sign excluding Jews from a property
Object | Accession Number: 1990.256.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-approximately 1945
… Nazi regime. While there was no singular law requiring the physical segregation of Jews from other Germans, a series of over 400 laws enacted throughout…
2. Tool used to classify eye color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 2017.355.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1930-1945
use: approximately 1930-1945
… went through what the allied powers called denazification: the effort to remove all traces of Nazi ideology, institutions, influence, and laws from…
3. Card made by two young internees to thank a US aid worker
2014.500.2 back
Object | Accession Number: 2014.500.2
Date:
creation: 1941 August-1942 May
received: after 1941 August
…. The Auschwitz Protocol was a report written by Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, two Slovakian Jews who escaped from Auschwitz. After the end of the war…
4. Book of musical compositions transcribed by a female Jewish musician
Object | Accession Number: 2013.311.5
Date:
creation: 1937-1941
recovered: approximately 1945 June
… orphan, six year old Shmuel. Hungary had anti-Jewish laws similar to those of its ally, Nazi Germany. In 1940, Miriam went to Budapest to stay with her…
5. Yellow warning skull and crossbones pennant found by a concentration camp inmate after liberation
2014.461.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.461.4
Date:
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 September
use: 1941 July-1945
… Germans decided to destroy the ghetto. On September 22, Symcho’s mother-in-law was shot in the head by Nazi officials. Symcho’s wife Tonia, 4 year old son…
6. Tool used to classify hair color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 a
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
… eugenics and miscegenation formed the supposedly scientific basis of the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. They were also utilized as the justification for Aktion T-4…
7. Blue envelope with American and German censorship marks mailed to the US by a Jewish woman
Object | Accession Number: 2005.376.2
Date:
postmark: 1941 August 12
… he was not accepted because he was Jewish. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Germans beat Regina’s brother-in-law and other men from…
8. Blue envelope with German censorship marks mailed to the US by a Jewish woman
Object | Accession Number: 2005.376.3
Date:
postmark: 1941 July 28
… he was not accepted because he was Jewish. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The Germans beat Regina’s brother-in-law and other men from…
9. Miniature propaganda card exposing the Jewish conspiracy links to the Allied Nations
2016.184.647 font
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.647
Date:
publication/distribution: 1941 December 10-1941 December 16
Series Title:
Parole der Woche
Artwork Title:
Das jüdische Komplott
Alternate Title:
The Jewish Conspiracy
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Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…