Object ID
2012.1.509
Object Name
Sign
Date
1942
Files
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Description
Wooden sign with text in German and Ukranian "Judenfrei", meaning that this area, or establishment, is free of Jews, a favorite Nazi epithet.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
At once a favorite Nazi epithet and an allusion to the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, “Judenfrei” meant Free of Jews, reassuring clients of an establishment that Jews were neither present on the premises nor welcome.
Dimensions
6 x 9 3/4"
Keywords
Judenfrei, Sign
Subcollection
Bullets
Recommended Citation
"An Antisemitic Wooden Sign in Both Ukrainian and German Announcing that an Establishment is “Judenfrei”" (1942). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2012.1.509.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1224