Post Anti-Semitism
Placing photographs from 1933-1941 in a contemporary context.
Germans queue up on a summer day at the entrance to the swimming area in Berlin-Wannsee. Posted outside the entrance is a sign forbidding entry to Jews.
USHMM / Granger Collection
A sign posted on a Government building in Hamelin reads, 'Keeping company with Jews excludes one from the national community.'
USHMM / Getty
A banner reading 'Anyone Who Buys From Jews Is A Traitor' above the market in Zschopau.
USHMM / Stadtarchiv Nürnberg
A march passes a factory in Fürth. 'Jews are our misfortune.'
Stadtarchiv Nürnberg
A banner posted above the entrance to the Eisentor fortress in Freinsheim, Germany reads, 'Freinsheim is and will remain free of Jews.'
Stadtarchiv Nürnberg
'The Jews are our misfortune', reads a banner over a busy street in Treptow (German) / Trzebiatów (Polish)
USHMM / Stadtarchiv Nürnberg
'Warntafeln'/ warning signs in Korbach
Stadtarchiv Nürnberg
A sign over the road into Ahlbeck reads "Jews Stope! The Way to Palestine does not lead through Ahlbeck"
USHMM
'Jews and friends of Jews are not allowed here', over a zoo in Cologne.
Stadtarchiv Nürnberg
'Never betray your people, don't go to the Jewish shop', written on the Weißer Turm opposite a Rothschild store in central Damstadt
Stadtarchiv Nürnberg
Youths outside the Hotel Continental in Koblenz. 'Jewish Guesthouse forbidden.'
Stadtarchiv Nürnberg
'Your Weapon Against Judaism is Der Stürmer', seen in Gleiwitz (German) / Gliwice (Polish), referring to the newspaper.
Stadtarchiv Nürnberg
Sign warning Jews not to enter the town of Geslau."The Jews are as useful to us as mice are to the grain and moths to clothes. Therefore they're not wanted here"
Stadtarchiv Nürnberg
Sign marking the 'Jewish Quarter' in both German and Dutch, outside the Rembrandt house in Amsterdam, 1941
NIOD
A residential building in Hamburg where a sign read 'This house and shall stay free of Jews'
USHMM
Sign marking the 'Jewish Quarter' in both German and Dutch, on the Jodenbreestraat in Amsterdam, 1941
NIOD
Reinforcing The Collective Memory



sources
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Stadtarchiv Nürnberg
Granger Collection
NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Getty Images, Popperfoto Archive