Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Anti-Jewish poster issued in German occupied Serbia in the fall of 1941 for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition in Belgrade from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. It depicts a grotesquely caricatured Jewish man dancing ecstatically on a huge pile of broken skeletons while playing a violin, his weapon for spreading lies. The exhibit focused on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination. Jews were portrayed as the source of all evil, which had to be destroyed, along with Jewish controlled countries, such as the Soviet Union and the US, and any outsider groups that opposed Nazi Germany. Yugoslavia was invaded and dismembered by the Axis powers in April 1941. Germany annexed most of Slovenia and placed Serbia under military occupation. The exhibition was organized by the Serbian puppet government of Milan Nedic in collaboration with the German occupiers.
- Artwork Title
- His instruments : democracy, (free)masonry, communism, capitalism
- Series Title
- Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition
- Date
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publication/distribution:
1941
- Geography
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distribution:
Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition;
Belgrade (Serbia)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund
- Markings
- front, center, light red ink : 3 lines of Serbian text [His instruments : democracy, (free)masonry, communism, capitalism...]
Physical Details
- Language
- Serbian
- Classification
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Posters
- Category
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Anti-Jewish propaganda
- Object Type
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Posters, Serbian (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Offset color lithograph poster on paper with a gradient red/orange background in the upper half and a black background in the lower. Filling the top is an oversized caricature of a Jewish man wearing a skull cap and a long black garment with light red shading. He holds a violin under his chin that he plays with the bow in his right hand. He looks gloatingly downwards; his face is excited, his eyes bulge from the sockets, and his nose is disproportionately large for his already exaggerated features. He has fleshy, protruding lips, a long beard, and peyot (side curls). He is dancing on a pile of disarticulated white human bones, including several skulls. There are 3 lines of Serbian text across the center. See 2016.184.328 for another version of this poster.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 27.500 inches (69.85 cm) | Width: 19.125 inches (48.578 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 antisemitic poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007.
- Funding Note
- The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:29:07
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Also in World War II antisemitic and anti-Nazi poster collection
The collection consists of four posters, two Serbian antisemitic posters, one Nuremberg Trial poster, and one Polish film poster, that are relevant to the history of the Holocaust.
Date: 1941-1983
Poster of a giant caricatured Jewish man holding businessmen in a noose
Object
Anti-Jewish poster issued in German occupied Serbia in the fall of 1941 for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition in Belgrade from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. It depicts a grotesque caricature of an oversized Jewish man pulling a rope around the necks of six men in business clothes to show the ways Jews manipulate financial markets and have a stranglehold on business. The exhibit focused on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination with the intent to increase hatred against outsider groups that opposed Nazi Germany. Yugoslavia had been invaded and dismembered by the Axis powers in April 1941. Germany annexed most of Slovenia and placed Serbia under military occupation. The exhibition was organized by the Serbian puppet government in collaboration with the German occupiers.
Nuremberg war crimes trial poster proclaiming guilty with Hitler as a grinning skull
Object
Poster created by Jurgen Freese for the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. The poster depicts the head of Hitler as a skull. After the end of the war and the defeat of Nazi Germany, Allied occupation authorities in Germany used posters such as this one to emphasize the criminal nature of the Nazi regime. An International Military Tribunal (IMT) was convened at Nuremberg, Germany, soon after the end of World War II on May 7, 1945. It purpose was to seek justice for crimes against humanity, evidenced by the Holocaust, perpetrated by Nazi Germany. In October 1945, the IMT formally indicted the Nuremberg defendants on four counts: crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit these crimes; the verdicts were delivered on October 1, 1946.
Poster for a postwar Polish film
Object
Poster advertising the Polish film, Travel Card, from 1984. The film was based on the novel, “Mr. Theodore Mudstock” by Ladislav Fuks, in which a middle-aged Jewish man, Jakub Rosenberg, prepares himself to be deported to a concentration camp.
