Jewish community in Częstochowa and German propaganda collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn737968
• English
• 1934
• oversize folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

A German propaganda poster in the form of a simplified, political-style map propagating a thesis about the military threat faced by a disarmed Germany after World War I. It was authored by Erich Haferkorn and published by praktische Schulmann, Stuttgart in 1934. The poster, titled "Der Wehrlose Deutschland ("The defenseless Germany"), was used in German schools to show how the border countries, in particular France, Poland, England, and Czechoslovakia, were armed and a threat to Germany.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn740035
• English
• 1946-1947
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The papers consist of 15 total black-and-white images: eight photographs and seven postcards documenting the life of the Jewish community in Czestochowa between 1946-1949. There are four postcard images depicting the Jewish cemetery, three of which indicate the year 1949. There are five group images, one a postcard, and the others photographs, one of which bears a handwritten, Yiddish caption and the year 1948. An additional photo likely depicts the place of execution of Czestochowa’s Jews, and another the greeting of the President of the Republic of Poland (before 1939). Also included are ...