us-005578-irn521877
type: RecordSet
archival history: The handbill was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Steve Crane.
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Square black-and-white caricature on newsprint with a graphic image of an extremely obese man in a black suit nestled among striped and dotted pillows. His head is near the center of the frame, but all that is visible is a grotesquely large curved nose and 2 fleshy lips with 4 teeth showing. He has a thin beard extending from his nearly bald crown to his lips and a double chin. His hands rest near the white bib spread on his ample stomach; he has rings on both fingers, manicured nails, white cuffs with links, and a big cigar. There is a white Star of David on his lower mid-section. The pillows adjacent to his head have Hebrew characters. A small round table with a demitasse cup, an aperitif glass, and a box labelled OSCURO sits in the foreground. Below the image is a paragraph of German text in black ink. The next paragraph repeats the text in Cyrillic Ukrainian.
conditions of access: No restrictions on access
date: approximately 1941-approximately 1944
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had some members with language: spa
has or had some members with language: ukr
has or had some members with language: heb
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn521877
record resource extent: overall: Height: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Width: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Antisemitic flier that a Russian woman was ordered by the German occupying authorities to post in a Messerschmitt airplane factory where she worked assembling bombs in the Ukraine region of the Soviet Union. Removal of a posted flier was a serious offense with punitive consequences. The bulletin features a caricature of a fat, richly dressed Jewish man as the"the true and only goal of the Bolshevik"World Revolution" The woman who posted the flier saved a copy because she did not want the world to forget the"difficulties" She kept it hidden behind a wooden picture frame and took it with her when she later emigrated to Brazil, and then to the United States. See 2016.184.662 for a color poster of this handbill. Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, breaking the German-Soviet Pact signed in August 1938. Germany remained victorious until autumn 1942 when the Soviet counteroffensive forced them to begin a long retreat. Most of the Ukraine was liberated by 1943.
title: Antisemitic cartoon workers were required to post in a factory in German occupied Ukraine