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.
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overall: Height: 27.250 inches (69.215 cm) | Width: 19.125 inches (48.578 cm)
Anti-Jewish poster issued in German occupied Serbia in the fall of 1941 for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition in Belgrade from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. It has a caricature of an evil looking Jewish man in a skullcap snarling with bared teeth. The exhibit focused on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination. Jews were portrayed as the source of all evil, which had to be destroyed, along with Jewish controlled countries, such as the Soviet Union and the US, and any outsider groups that opposed Nazi Germany. Yugoslavia was invaded and dismembered by the Axis powers in April 1941. Germany annexed most of Slovenia and placed Serbia under military occupation. The exhibition was organized by the Serbian puppet government of Milan Nedic in collaboration with the German occupiers. This poster is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
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Offset color lithograph poster on light brown paper with a caricature of a threatening and sinister looking Orthodox Jewish man’s face and shoulders, yellow with black creases and shadows. A red Star of David mark is on his forehead, resembling a target. His hooded eyes are narrowed and glaring with evil intent and his fleshy lips are twisted into a snarl. He wears a black skullcap and has a huge, pointed nose and ears, and a short, bristled beard. The background is black with a yellow border with Serbian text at the bottom. It is adhered to slightly larger linen backing.
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The poster was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.