Color antisemitic poster produced in Italy in 1942.
Overview
- Caption
- Color antisemitic poster produced in Italy in 1942.
It depicts a figure with a red headband and a star sewn on his jacket appearing to punch the viewer. The background of the poster includes the skyline of New York City and the Statue of Liberty. The star is a five-pointed star rather than a Magen David, though the figure is clearly meant to be Jewish.
The father of the donor received the poster after the war the custodian of a Bologna High School, Liceo Minghetti, who, instead of posting it on the wall, as requested by the local authorities during the racial law period, kept it in a drawer. - Date
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1942
- Locale
- Italy
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Alessandra Nacamu
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Alessandra NacamuSource Record ID: Collections: 2014.313.1
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Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Daniele Nacamu (the father of the donor) was born in 1929 to Oscar Nacamu (b. 1895) and Dalila Pancaldi (b. 1904). Daniele has one younger brother Leonardo (b. 1930). The family whose name originally was Nahamu lived in Ancona on Italy's coast, and Daniele and Leonardo grew up in Bologna. Oscar Nacamu, the son of Leonardo Nacamu and Clotilde Coen Nacamu had three siblings: Salvatore (b. 1898), Dora (b. 1894-1938) and Guido (b. 1901). The family was assimilated and middle class, and experienced relatively little antisemitism until the advent of the racial laws of 1938. The entire Nacamu family survived the war.
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