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