An Antisemitic Wooden Sign in Both Ukrainian and German Announcing that an Establishment is “Judenfrei”

Authors

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