Inscribed postcard of a begging Russian official

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. 

The postcard was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family. 

Inscribed postcard of a begging Russian official 

This postcard is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials. 

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Postcard with monochromatic illustration of a weeping man in left profile wearing a military style full dress uniform. He has short, light colored hair and a neatly trimmed mustache and beard. He kneels, looks up, and begs with outstretched, clasped hands. German text is at the top and left. The back has a postmark, a handwritten note and address in blue, likely German text, and green 5 pfennig Bavarian postage stamp with an image of Ludwig III. back, top right, postmark, stamped, black ink : SOL / [2?] / OK / [12?] / [15?] back, cursive, blue ink : postcard message and address illegible