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Simon Wiesenthal Center - The Courage to Remember: The Holocaust,
1933-1945 Posters
MS.M.022
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine
Libraries
Title: Simon Wiesenthal Center
The courage to remember: the
Holocaust, 1933-1945
: posters
Creator:
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Identifier/Call Number: MS.M.022
Physical Description:
1.2 Linear Feet
(40 oversize posters)
Date (inclusive): 1988
Abstract: This collection comprises 40 posters
containing images and textual information concerning the persecution and extermination of
European Jews by Nazi Germany during the period 1933-1945. The posters are based on a Simon
Wiesenthal Center traveling exhibition,
The Courage to
Remember,
which debuted in Vienna, Austria, at the Palais Palffy in 1988. Poster
topics include four major themes: Nazi Germany, 1933-1938; Moving Toward the "Final
Solution", 1939-1941; Annihilation in Nazi-occupied Europe, 1941-1945; and Liberation -
Building New Lives.
Language of Material:
English .
Collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by
the creators of the records and their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish,
please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Simon Wiesenthal Center,
The Courage to Remember: The Holocaust,
1933-1945
Posters. MS-M22. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine
Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information
about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder
descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Acquired, 1994.
Processed by William Landis, 1999. Finding aid edited by Lynette J. Stoudt, 2001.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center was established in 1977 as an international Jewish human rights
organization. Its primary goal is to preserve the memory of the Holocaust by encouraging
tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach, and social
action. Other issues that the Center focuses on are Middle East affairs, prosecution of Nazi
war criminals, extremist groups, neo-Nazism, and hate on the Internet. The center is
headquartered in Los Angeles, California, and maintains offices in several other
countries.
The Center's traveling poster exhibit on the Holocaust,
The Courage to
Remember
(on which this collection is based) opened in Vienna, Austria in 1988. It
has since traveled throughout North America and to fifteen other countries. As of August
2001, a resource guide to the exhibit and poster images may be viewed on the Internet at the
Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection comprises 40 posters containing images and textual information concerning
the persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany during the period
1933-1945. The posters are based on a Simon Wiesenthal Center traveling exhibition,
The Courage to Remember, which debuted in Vienna, Austria, at the
Palais Palffy in 1988. Poster topics include four major themes: Nazi Germany, 1933-1938;
Moving Toward the "Final Solution", 1939-1941; Annihilation in Nazi-occupied Europe,
1941-1945; and Liberation - Building New Lives.
Poster images consist of nearly 200 photographs, both black and white and color, with color
backgrounds and narrative text. Dimensions of the posters are approximately 26 x 42 inches.
Each poster is individually numbered 1-40 and posters are arranged numerically within the
collection. The container listing includes the primary headings printed on the top of each
poster.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Posters.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Posters.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Posters.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Posters.
Posters
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- Posters.