F03_P04: Persecution of Jews; Irene Harand Resistance Organization
1938 January 15, Front side - Post card from Hodonin, Czechoslovakia to Nürnberg, Germany.
Tan post card with printed text and outline in Czech using black ink. At the center, typed text in German and Czech using black ink is present. At the bottom left, a stamp depicting Heinrich Heine, a German Jewish poet facing forward. The stamp is red and pink, contains decorative artwork, and text in German. At the top right corner, two stamps are present. One is a red-pink 1-kor stamp depicting Tomáš Masaryk, the first President of Czechoslovakia. At the left side, an orange-red 20-haleru stamp depicting a crest or Coat of Arms of Czechoslovakia. Overtop, a black ink cancellation dated January 15, 1938.
Name/Title
F03_P04: Persecution of Jews; Irene Harand Resistance OrganizationEntry/Object ID
2007.3.4.aScope and Content
1938 January 15, post card from Hodonin, Czechoslovakia to Nürnberg, Germany.Context
A traveling antisemitic propaganda exhibition titled Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew) opened at Munich on November 8, 1937. Jews were portrayed as moral degenerates in exhibits, lectures, books, and posters – alternatively as money-grubbing capitalists or as Communist conspirators, either way bent on world domination. Irene Harand, a German Christian, organized anti-Nazi resistance from a base in Austria. The Harand organization’s propaganda label on a January 15, 1938, post card from Hodonin, Czechoslovakia, to Nürnberg, Germany, honors the great German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, whom the Nazi exhibit had attacked. It quotes Bismarck and Nietzsche in praise of Heine. Printed-to-private order 6-pfennig Hindenburg Medallion picture postal card advertising the anti-Jewish exhibition, with November 8, 1937, Munich commemorative hand cancellation.Collection
Nazi Scourge I: Primary ExhibitionCategory
Post Card
Philatelic Material