Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Poster cartoon of a Jewish man, a Soviet hammer and sickle, and money bags

Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.331

Search this record's additional resources, such as finding aids, documents, or transcripts.

No results match this search term.
Check spelling and try again.

results are loading

0 results found for “keyward

    Poster cartoon of a Jewish man, a Soviet hammer and sickle, and money bags

    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. Poster has a cartoon of a Jewish man with the tools of Communism and commerce with which he strives to control the world. 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. This poster is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
    Title
    How Can It Be!
    Series Title
    Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1941
    Geography
    distribution: Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition; Belgrade (Serbia)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
    Markings
    front, center, white ink : КАКО ТО?!?... / КОД БОЉШЕВИКА / ЈЕВРЕЈИМА ЈЕ ДОБРО! / ИКОД ПЛУТОКРАТА / ЈЕВРЕЈИМА ЈЕ ДОБРО!. / ЗАШТО? / ЗАТО, ЈЕР СУ БОЉШЕВИЗАМ / И ПЛУТОКРАТИЈА / ЈЕВРЕЈСКА ДЕЛА! [How can it be?!? ... The Jews have it good with the Bolsheviks and the Jews have it good with the plutocrats! Why?... Because Bolshevism and Plutocracy are Jewish affairs!]
    front, bottom left, black ink : Pr. Bg. LX/6/4/42.-Va
    Contributor
    Compiler: Peter Ehrenthal
    Biography
    The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Serbian
    Classification
    Posters
    Physical Description
    Offset color lithograph poster on light brown paper with a cartoon of a bald man in a gray 3 piece suit with a gold Star of David waist fob on a yellow background. He grins above his double chin and has his thumbs in the armholes of his vest. His hands rest on his big, round stomach. He has comically exaggerated Jewish features: thick eyebrows and a large, tube shaped nose with a small black mustache. He squats atop a large black rectangle; on the left is a large, upright red hammer and sickle, symbol of the USSR; in front of his belly is a large red Star of David; on the right are 2 large white money sacks printed with 50000000. The black rectangle fills the remaining two-thirds of the poster and has 9 lines of white Serbian text in Cyrillic font. The poster has a narrow blank border and is adhered to slightly larger linen backing.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 27.500 inches (69.85 cm) | Width: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm)
    Materials
    overall : paper, ink, linen, adhesive

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    No restrictions on access
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The poster was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Special Collection
    Katz Ehrenthal Collection
    Record last modified:
    2022-07-28 18:13:32
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/irn542381

    Download & Licensing

    In-Person Research

    Contact Us