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Les Différentes Positions Sociales [The Different Social Positions]. Color lithograph print. Without neither publisher's nor printer's names. [France? Late 19th Century]. French.
Antisemitic print showing stairs with seven figures on them - a governor, a nobleman, a priest, a Jew, a soldier, a beggar and a farmer. Under each figure, there is a naive saying attributed to it. The Jew, dressed in the outfit of "The Wandering Jew" [the stereotypical character of a Jewish figure in France of the 19th century] with a wanderer's satchel on his shoulder, standing in the middle on the uppermost stair with the saying, "I beat all of you." There was a similar print appearing in Frankfurt at the same time in which the saying attributed to the Jew was, "I must live from the profits."
Size: 41x32 cm. Stains, fine condition.
Antisemitic poster [cutout?] depicting gentile and Jewish clowns facing each other. Germany, c. 1930s. Unknown.
Leaf apparently meant for cutting and assembling the figure of a clown. There is a gentile clown on the right with a smiling face and colorful lively clown costume in contrast to the Jewish clown on the left: the image of a banker waving money in one hand and shaking the other in a threatening manner. He has a long nose, a serious face and a fake closed-mouth smile. Where there is a large, impressive flower on the gentile's outfit, there is a small, simple flower on the Jew's. "Ziehfigur" appears on the lower left.
Size: 34x41 cm.
Very fine condition.
* Issue no. 33 from August 15, 1897. The front page of the newspaper features an antisemitic caricature depicting two ridiculous Jewish stereotypes, one called Magyar Zsido ["Hungarian Jew"], and the second, Lengyel Zsido ['Polish Jew']. The inner pages feature antisemitic caricatures.
* Issue no. 48 from November 29 1896. The front page of the newspaper features an antisemitic caricature. Bound with:
* Issue no. 49 from December 6, 1896. The front page of the newspaper features an antisemitic caricature, as well as various antisemitic caricatures with antisemitic captions on the inner pages.
Overall very fine condition.
Four newspaper issues from important dates in the Dreyfus Affair.
* L'Illustration Journal Universal from February 12 1898 - Émile Zola in the courtroom.
* L'Illustration Journal Universal from August 19 1899 - after Dreyfus was found guilty under extenuating circumstances and sentenced to ten years imprisonment - Lavoro's breakdown (he was a controversial figure in relation to Dreyfus).
* L'Illustration Journal Universal from July 8 1899 - Dreyfus on the boat on his way to imprisonment on Devil's Island.
* Le Petit Parisien - from November 13 1904 - from within the courtroom. The photographers were not allowed to photograph inside the courtroom; the public received pictures of what was happening inside the courtroom by work of the best illustrators of the time, which were published by the press.
Overall very fine condition.
Poster titled 'volkstypen aus russisch-polen' - types of peoples in Russia and Poland. Graphic antisemitic poster with eight photographed pictures of views of Jews in a market, [female] Jewish merchants, an elderly Jewish beggar.
Posters of this type were distributed in Germany and meant for the "enlightened" German people to show Jews 'as they are' where they live among themselves ['Juden under sich'], images such as these always filled the antisemitic Der Stürmer as well as Berliner illustriete Zeeitung, accompanied by virulently inciteful antisemitic articles entitled "Jews Among Themselves." The photographic style of Nazi propaganda focused on the faces of the subjects of the photographs to demonstrate the physical characteristics of races which were considered inferior.
34x54 cm. Thick paper. Very fine condition.
Avis aux Israelites - Notification for Jews. Leaflet on behalf of the authorities in France turning to the Jews with the demand they report to the building of the municipality soon, before the October 2nd deadline, for the purpose of completing the registration of their personal details, in a leaflet threatening that if they don't come on time, the Jews will be punished with "the most severe punishment." France 1940.
France was conquered by Nazi forces in June, 1940. It was divided into the German occupied territory in the north and the west; and an ostensibly independent state in the south, called Vichy France, due to the fact that its government sat in the free city of Vichy. The new French state, headed by Henri Philippe Pétain, established a regime of cooperation with the Nazis, and maintained a passive and submissive policy, including cooperation with the extermination of its Jews.
Size: 22x30 cm. Very fine condition.
Yellow fabric patch in the shape of a star of David with "Jude" written in the center, late 1930s or early 1940s.
According the German Reich regulations, beginning in 1938, every Jew in occupied German territory was required to wear a yellow patch. The patch had to be at least 10 cm, shaped in the form of a star of David, and have "Jude" written in the center. According to the instructions, the patch had to be worn over the garment on the left side of the chest, or on the upper right arm. Jews who forgot the patch when they went out into the street, or wore a patch which did not meet the instructions, were officially expected to receive fines or imprisonment. At the entrances to the homes in Warsaw, warnings were posted against forgetting the armband. In an announcement by the Judenrat on July 26, 1941, it was reported that "according to the authorities' warning, Jews who do not wear the yellow patch on their chests and on their backs will be harshly punished - including death by gunfire." The countries where the yellow stars were most commonly used were Germany, France and the Netherlands.
8x10 cm. Fine condition.
Arbeiter - worker's card for a Jew named Gerard Rosenberg, b. 1914 [Rosenberg apparently worked in a German refinery]. Details were filled in on 5/8/1940.
Rosenberg's passport photograph appears on the card, as well as his signature and two ink stamps with the German Reich emblem, and a printed swastika.
10x14 cm. Fine condition.
ID pendant for a Jew in the Sonderkommando unit of the Stutthof death camp. The front bears his personal number: 396 and the inscription "Stutthof Block A" with a swastika on top. Star of David on the reverse. Rare.
The Sonderkommando special unit was the unit which dealt with the casualties of the destruction in the gas chambers. The Jews worked in this unit by forced labor, and their job was to remove the corpses from the gas chambers and to burn them in the crematoria. After functioning a number of months, the members of the Sonderkommando itself were executed and their corpses were removed by the next unit in turn. The swastika symbol on the pendant marked them as "workers" in the service of the Nazis. The star of David on the reverse identified the worker as Jewish. Historian Hermann Langbein wrote "By order of Adolf Eichmann, most of the Sonderkommando personnel were executed after each perpetration of execution, because they were aware of Nazi secrets." The situation of the Sonderkommando personnel was incomparably better than the rest of the inmates, as testified to by a survivor of Auschwitz and member of the Sonderkommando, Josef Zacker: "We knew no lack - whether in clothing, food nor sleep. We did not suffer from starvation or lack of sleep, we had clothing and shoes for the duration. Clearly, only we, the Sonderkommando, received these benefits, the rest of the prisoners could only dream of them. The conditions in our block were exceptional. We had bathtubs in the crematoria and in our camp blocks. In the crematorium, there was a bathtub in the residential floor. We also had bathrooms in the block."
For the six years of the existence of the Stutthof concentration camp, which was located east of Danzig, near the city of Stutthof, approximately 110,000 people were imprisoned, of which 85,000 were killed. Gas chambers and crematoria were built in the camp in 1943 in order to begin mass executions, as Stutthof was included in the "final solution" of June 1944.
Diameter: 3.2 cm. Rust stains. Fine condition.
ARBEITSLAGER MITTELBAU means of payment in the Mittelbau Labor Camp rated 64 Choice Uncirculated by the PMG.
KZ-Dora-Mittelbau; [also called Mittlebau-Dora, or Nordhausen] served as a Nazi labor camp during the period of the Holocaust. The camp was located in central Germany near Nordhausen. The laborers were forced to produce V-2 missiles in underground factories. Of about 60,000 prisoners "employed" at the labor camp by forced labor, it is estimated that 20,000 were killed. Exhaustion from the hard labor, terrible sanitation conditions, executions and hunger were the principle causes of death. It was the central labor camp; it had approximately forty sub-camps. The prisoners were left in tunnels 24 hours a day, without seeing any daylight, in very harsh working conditions, with even minimal security or welfare: work for six days in 12-hour shifts. The prisoners suffered from cold and hunger and from the brutality of the German workers.
Although the SS actually ran the camp, the Metalwork company which manufactured the missiles supplied the prisoners with shoes and other items, and the prisoners had the right to buy in a "canteen." It is rare to fine payment means from this camp in this condition.
Payment means for the Mittelblau labor camp [Arbeitslager Mittelblau].
For details about the camp, see the previous item.
UNC condition.
Milch Karte [Milk Card no. 9411] der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt. [The Jewish ghetto in Lodz.]
The card owner's personal details appear on the back of the card - his name, age and address, as well as regulations in German with punishments for losing the card or using it in ways other than as designated by Nazi law.
12x15 cm. Very fine condition.