Announcement for the Occupied Territory Text only trilingual poster with armband, health and registration orders
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 21.750 inches (55.245 cm) | Width: 22.000 inches (55.88 cm)
Creator(s)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- Der Befehlshaber des Gebietes, Wehrmacht (Issuer)
Biographical History
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.
Archival History
The poster was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of 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.
Scope and Content
Trili ngual announcement issued in areas of Poland (some later Ukraine). This poster is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Text only poster on light brown paper with a wide, orange border and text printed in black ink. There are 3 columns of text repeating the same message in 3 languages: the first column is in German, the second Polish, and the third Ukrainian. At the top is a heading: Bekanntmachung / Obwieszczenie / Объявление [Announcement] in large, bold font, followed by small close set text separated into paragraphs headed by Roman numerals. The poster is attached to slightly larger linen backing. It may be a postwar reproduction.
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Ukraine--Posters.
- Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1939-1945--Posters.
- Recording and registration--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Occupied territories--Posters.
- World War, 1939-1945--Law and legislation--Occupied territories--Posters.
- Identification cards--Law and legislation--Poland.
- Poland--History--German occupation, 1939-1945--Posters.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Posters.
Genre
- Posters
- Object