Guide to The Courage to Remember: The Holocaust, 1933-1945 Posters
Processed by William Landis; machine-readable finding aid created by
Lynette J. Stoudt
Special Collections and Archives
The UCI Libraries
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University of California
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Note
Geographical (By Place)--Europe
History--Modern European History
Arts and Humanities--Art--Photography
Guide to
The Courage to Remember: The Holocaust, 1933-1945 Posters
Collection number: MS-M22
Special Collections and Archives
The UCI Libraries
University of California
Irvine, California
Contact Information
- Special Collections and Archives
- The UCI Libraries
- P.O. Box 19557
- University of California
- Irvine, California 92623-9557
- Phone: (949) 824-3947
- Fax: (949) 824-2472
- Email: spcoll@uci.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.uci.edu/rrsc/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- William Landis
- Date Completed:
- 1999
- Encoded by:
- Lynette J. Stoudt
© 2001 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title:
The courage to remember: the Holocaust, 1933-1945 : posters, 1988 / Simon Wiesenthal Center
Collection number: MS-M022
Creator:
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Extent:
1.2 linear feet (40 oversize posters)
Repository:
University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and Archives.
Irvine, California 92623-9557
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:
English.
Administrative Information
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.
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
Web site .
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.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Simon Wiesenthal Center--Poster collections.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Posters.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Posters.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Posters.
Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945--Posters.
World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Posters.
Genres and Forms of Materials
Posters.
Collection Contents
Box XOS 1
1. The courage to remember: the Holocaust 1933-1945
Box XOS 1
2. Why the Jews?: the patterns of persecution
Box XOS 1
3. 1933: German Jewish life before the Nazis
Box XOS 1
4. The "Jewish question": Nazi policy 1933-1939
Box XOS 1
5. The nightmare begins: Hitler and the Nazis
Box XOS 1
6. Nazi propaganda: slogans, myths, and images
Box XOS 1
7. Nazi policy: racism and terror
Box XOS 1
8. Concentration camps: 1933-1938
Box XOS 1
10. 1938: the Reich expands
Box XOS 2
11. Kristallnacht: the night of broken glass
Box XOS 2
12. Flight without escape: the Jewish homeless
Box XOS 2
13. The deadly philosophy: racial purity
Box XOS 2
14. All necessary preparations: 1939-1941
Box XOS 2
15. Eastern Europe: the arena for mass murder
Box XOS 2
16. Isolate and destroy: the Jewish question in occupied territory
Box XOS 2
17. Days of nightmare: the Lodz ghetto
Box XOS 2
18. The world turned upside down: the Warsaw ghetto
Box XOS 2
19. Blitzkrieg: the invasion and occupation of the West
Box XOS 2
20. No escape: Greece and Yugoslavia fall
Box XOS 3
21. Whatever can be saved: daily life in the ghettos
Box XOS 3
22. The "final solution": 1941-1945
Box XOS 3
23. Death by design: the invasion of the Soviet Union
Box XOS 3
24. Einsatzgruppen: mobile killing squads
Box XOS 3
25. The final choice: resistance
Box XOS 3
26. Resistance and revenge: the Warsaw ghetto revolt
Box XOS 3
27. Mass murder: 1942-1945
Box XOS 3
28. Theresienstadt: the "model" ghetto
Box XOS 3
29. Like dying candles: concentration camp routine
Box XOS 3
30. The enduring spirit: art of the Holocaust
Box XOS 4
31. Auschwitz-Birkenau: the death factory
Box XOS 4
32. Auschwitz-Birkenau: half hell, half lunatic asylum
Box XOS 4
33. The last agony at Auschwitz: liberation, January 1945
Box XOS 4
34. A righteous few: survival in hiding and rescue
Box XOS 4
35. Liberation: the unmasked terror
Box XOS 4
36. Bitterness and hope: the legacy of the Holocaust
Box XOS 4
37. Crimes against humanity: Nazis on trial
Box XOS 4
38. Where now? Where to?: The displaced
Box XOS 4
39. Revival: building new lives
Box XOS 4
40. Remembrance and vigilance
