Order, Neu-Sandez, March 6, 1940 Nazi ordinance rationing meat for Aryans and Jews
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm) | Width: 21.750 inches (55.245 cm)
Creator(s)
- Der Stadtkommissar Dr. Hein, General Gouvernement, Neu-Sandez (Issuer)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
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
Broadside providing notice in German and Polish of a meat rationing order issued in Nowy Sacz, called Neu-Sandez, in 1940 in German occupied Poland. Aryans were allotted 9 ounces, a little over half a pound, of meat per week, and Jews less than 2 ounces, about an eighth of a pound. Nowy Sacz was occupied by Nazi Germany on September 6, 1939. Food shortages were experienced immediately. Jews were abused, forced to perform work for no pay, and confined to a ghetto. The city was near the Slovakian border and, in December, Jews in that area were ordered to move into the city. Food was even scarcer, and with the overcrowding came starvation and fast spreading disease. In August 1942, the ghetto was liquidated and approximately 20,000 Jewish residents were sent to Belzec killing center. 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 with text in black ink on coarse brown paper. The top half of the poster has 2 blocks of text in large font, in German on the left and repeated in Polish on the right. There is a horizontal line at the center. Below this are 2 tables, with 2 line headings and several columns with lists of names. The poster is adhered to slightly larger paper on larger linen backing.
Subjects
- Rationing--Poland--Nowy Sacz--Posters.
- World War, 1939-1945--Food supply--Poland--Nowy Sacz--Posters.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Posters.
- Poland--History--German occupation, 1939-1945--Posters.
- World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--Poland--Nowy Sacz--Posters.
Genre
- Object
- Posters