Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Poster depicting a male worker and a female gardener against the backdrop of a map of France and a sun with the date "1941" printed inside. To the left are jackals or possibly wolves, each labeled with a different name, including "Juifs" and "DeGaulle", which are depicted as threatening the borders of France.
- Artwork Title
- Laissez-Nous Tranquilles
- Date
-
depiction:
1941
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Classification
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Posters
- Category
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War propaganda
- Object Type
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Posters, French (lcsh)
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 44.000 inches (111.76 cm) | Width: 30.000 inches (76.2 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:25:57
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn33820
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Also in Poster collection
The collection consists of two posters: one is a French propaganda poster and the other is an anti-Nazi poster created by Ben Shahn protesting the decimation of Lidice, Czechoslovakia.
Date: 1941-1942
Ben Shahn poster with an image of a hooded man protesting the Nazi destruction of Lidice
Object
Poster created by Ben Shahn for the US Office of War Information as a response to the Nazi-led annihilation and destruction of communities throughout the Czech Republic, including Lidice. It also protests the retaliatory measures taken for the attempted assassination by Czech resistance members of Reinhard Heydrich, director of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, under the Nazi occupation.
