Museum für Deutsche Geschichte collection

Identifier: irn58697
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

Web Source

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by the Museum für Deutsche Geschichte.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of artifacts and posters related to the history of Jewish culture in Germany and artifacts and antisemitic propaganda posters related to the activities of the Nazi Party in Germany in the 1930s.

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Displaying items 1 to 20 of 20

Cantor's cap
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3938
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Metal portrait bust of Rosa Luxemburg
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3939
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Coat hanger made by a Jewish company
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3940
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Clothes hanger from Jewish company
Yellow and gray striped paper bag advertising Israel's department store
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3941
- English
- overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Paper bag from a Israel's Deaprtment store in prewar Berlin that sold lingerie, clothing, curtains, carpets, and furniture.
Race Pollution Nazi propaganda poster advertising a special issue of "Der Stuermer" on Rassenschande [Race Pollution]
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3942
- English
- 1935
- overall: Height: 47.000 inches (119.38 cm) | Width: 32.500 inches (82.55 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Nazi propaganda poster advertising a special issue of "Der Stuermer" on "Rassenschande" [race pollution]. The poster warns of interracial relationships, justifying and explaining the Nuremberg laws. The text reads: "Race Pollution. Since 1923, Julius Streicher has enlightened the public about race pollution. In 1933, the Fuehrer declared race pollution a crime, punishable by imprisonment. Nevertheless, thousands of race crimes continue to be committed in Germany by Jews. What is Race Pollution? Why did the Fuehrer proclaim the Nuremberg Laws? Why do Jews, systematically and in massive numbe...
A Farsighted Englishman Nazi poster on the need to destroy the US-Jewish conspiracy to rule the world
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3943
- English
- overall: Height: 37.000 inches (93.98 cm) | Width: 47.250 inches (120.015 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
The poster was issued on August 12, 1942, for the Parole der Woche (Slogan of the Week) series produced by the Nazi Party in Germany from 1936-1943. The series was discontinued in 1943 because of paper shortages caused by the prolonged war.
The International and Marxism Bring Only Poverty, Hunger, Misery, and Decay German Socialist Party election poster depicting Lenin as a monster
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3944
- English
- 1924
- overall: Height: 37.750 inches (95.885 cm) | Width: 22.250 inches (56.515 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Deutschsozialistische Partei (DSP, German Socialist Party) election poster. The DSP is seen as a precursor of the Nazi Party.
The Masterminds Anti-Semitic propaganda poster with pictures of several prominent Jewish figures
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3945
- English
- overall: Height: 33.250 inches (84.455 cm) | Width: 47.625 inches (120.968 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda poster published in Munich, Germany, and distributed the week of May 27 to June 2, 1942. The text is from a speech that Adolf Hitler gave to the Reichstag on April 26, 1942. The text denounces Jews as the reason that Germany lost World War I, the group that incited the rise of communism, and drove Britain and America to war with Germany. As proof for these claims the poster features pictures of 6 prominent, powerful Jewish men. On the left are two Americans and a Soviet: Bernard Baruch, an advisor to Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt during both World Wars; Felix ...
Degenerate art German poster advertising Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3946
- English
- overall: Height: 11.375 inches (28.893 cm) | Width: 15.875 inches (40.323 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
German poster advertising "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibition in Chemnitz on August 11 - September 1939.
Boycott Jewish Shops Buy Only From Germans Poster announcing a Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3947
- English
- overall: Height: 19.125 inches (48.578 cm) | Width: 23.750 inches (60.325 cm) pictorial area: Height: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm) | Width: 23.750 inches (60.325 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster advocating a Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses.
Poster advertisment for Der Sturmer
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3948
- English
- overall: Height: 37.000 inches (93.98 cm) | Width: 23.250 inches (59.055 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Needlepoint matzoh cover with a Hebrew inscription, flowers and leaves
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3949
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Needlepoint matzoh cover from prewar Germany. It was used to cover the matzoh at Sabbath dinners. The blessing of the matzoh is embroidered around the perimeter.
Brown cloth Torah mantle with a Star of David applique
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3950
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Parokhet
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3951
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Ark curtain
Parokhet
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3952
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Ark curtain valence
Embroidered parokhet
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3953
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Ark curtain valence
Spoon
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3954
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Spoon
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3955
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Barbed wire
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3956
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Sturmabteiling [Stormtrooper] brown shirt
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn3957
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
SA brown shirt.