Guide to The Simon Wiesenthal Center Courage to Remember: The Holocaust,
1933-1945 Posters MS.M.022
Processed by William Landis; machine-readable finding aid created by Lynette J.
Stoudt
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine
Libraries
(cc) 2001
The UCI Libraries
P.O. Box 19557
University of California, Irvine
Irvine 92623-9557
spcoll@uci.edu
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.
General Physical Description note: 1.2 linear feet
Language of Material:
English .
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
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.
Preferred Citation
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.
Acquisition Information
Acquired, 1994.
Processing History
Processed by William Landis, 1999. Finding aid edited by Lynette J. Stoudt, 2001.
Organizational History
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.
folder XOS 001
1. The courage to remember: the Holocaust 1933-1945
folder XOS 001
2. Why the Jews?: the patterns of persecution
folder XOS 001
3. 1933: German Jewish life before the Nazis
folder XOS 001
4. The "Jewish question": Nazi policy 1933-1939
folder XOS 001
5. The nightmare begins: Hitler and the Nazis
folder XOS 001
6. Nazi propaganda: slogans, myths, and images
folder XOS 001
7. Nazi policy: racism and terror
folder XOS 001
8. Concentration camps: 1933-1938
folder XOS 001
10. 1938: the Reich expands
folder XOS 002
11. Kristallnacht: the night of broken glass
folder XOS 002
12. Flight without escape: the Jewish homeless
folder XOS 002
13. The deadly philosophy: racial purity
folder XOS 002
14. All necessary preparations: 1939-1941
folder XOS 002
15. Eastern Europe: the arena for mass murder
folder XOS 002
16. Isolate and destroy: the Jewish question in occupied territory
folder XOS 002
17. Days of nightmare: the Lodz ghetto
folder XOS 002
18. The world turned upside down: the Warsaw ghetto
folder XOS 002
19. Blitzkrieg: the invasion and occupation of the West
folder XOS 002
20. No escape: Greece and Yugoslavia fall
folder XOS 003
21. Whatever can be saved: daily life in the ghettos
folder XOS 003
22. The "final solution": 1941-1945
folder XOS 003
23. Death by design: the invasion of the Soviet Union
folder XOS 003
24. Einsatzgruppen: mobile killing squads
folder XOS 003
25. The final choice: resistance
folder XOS 003
26. Resistance and revenge: the Warsaw ghetto revolt
folder XOS 003
27. Mass murder: 1942-1945
folder XOS 003
28. Theresienstadt: the "model" ghetto
folder XOS 003
29. Like dying candles: concentration camp routine
folder XOS 003
30. The enduring spirit: art of the Holocaust
folder XOS 004
31. Auschwitz-Birkenau: the death factory
folder XOS 004
32. Auschwitz-Birkenau: half hell, half lunatic asylum
folder XOS 004
33. The last agony at Auschwitz: liberation, January 1945
folder XOS 004
34. A righteous few: survival in hiding and rescue
folder XOS 004
35. Liberation: the unmasked terror
folder XOS 004
36. Bitterness and hope: the legacy of the Holocaust
folder XOS 004
37. Crimes against humanity: Nazis on trial
folder XOS 004
38. Where now? Where to?: The displaced
folder XOS 004
39. Revival: building new lives
folder XOS 004
40. Remembrance and vigilance
