Emmi G.

This is a photograph of Emmi G., a 16 year old housemaid who was diagnosed with schizophrenia. She was sterilized and then sent to the Meseritz-Obrawalde euthanasia center where she was killed with an overdose of tranquilizers on December 7, 1942.The place and date of the photograph is uncertain.

-Karl-Bonhoeffer-Nervenklinik Fachkrankenhaus fuer Neurologie

Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

This photograph of the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp reveals the mass amount not only of Jews, but Jewish women. Many photographs of the holocaust show men, but this photograph proves that there were just as many women who endured the holocaust.

-Poland, 1944

- National Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Star of David

These women are at forced labor in a sewing workshop. Lodz, ghetto, Poland, between 1940 and 1944.

I think it is interesting to notice the elderly man standing watch over the women. He does not seem as though he would be intimidating. It is also important to note the Star of David on the back of a woman. It seems as though there was never a moment when these people were not labeled as "Jewish, and nothing more."


- Juedisches Museum der Stadt Frankfurt

"What yours is mine; Whats mine is yours"

Jewish women who were seized for forced labor expropriated cloth. Lodz ghetto, Poland, date uncertain.

These women were organizing cloth that was taken from Jewish prisoners. It must have been extremely difficult for these women to be forced to partake in destroying the lives of other Jews.

-Beit Lohamei Haghettaot
(Ghetto Fighters' House)

Propaganda and Antisemitism

Propaganda cartoon warning of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy. Germany, date unknown.

The cartoon depicts an octopus with a rather unattractive face with its tentacles destroying the earth. I think it is important to note that the Star of David above the head is not proportionate or realistic. This cartoon clearly represents the idea of the Jews taking over the world.


-Library of Congress


This is a poster for the antisemitic museum exhibition "Der ewige Jude" (The Wandering Jew) characterizes Jews as Marxists, moneylenders, and enslavers. Munich, Germany, November 8, 1937.


-Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library Limited

Children and Antisemitism

This is an illustration from a antisemitic German children's book titled DER GIFTPILZ (The poisonous Mushroom), published in Nuremberg, Germany 1n 1935.

The caption reads, "The Jewish nose is crooked, it looks like a 6."

-United States Holocaust Memorial Museum












This is an illustration from a children's book. The headlines say "Jews are out misfortune," and "How the Jews cheat." Germany, 1936.

These cartoons reveal the use of children as a way to spread antisemitism, or hostility towards Jews.


-United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Before the War

In 1933, approximately 33 millions Jews lived in Europe, comprising 1.7% of the total population of Europe. This number represented more than 60% of the world's Jewish population at that time, estimated at 15.3 million.

This is a photograph of two Jewish families at a gathering before the war. Only two of these people survived the Holocaust. Germany, 1928.

-United States Holocaust Memorial Museum