SS Dachau Pamphlet
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 10.375 inches (26.353 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)
Creator(s)
- Peter Ehrenthal (Compiler)
- Alfred L. Howes (Author)
- United States Army. 7th Army (Author)
Biographical History
The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the pervasive history of anti-Jewish hatred in Western art, politics and popular culture. It includes crude folk art as well as pieces created by Europe's finest craftsmen, prints and periodical illustrations, posters, paintings, decorative art, and toys and everyday household items decorated with depictions of stereotypical Jewish figures.
Archival History
The publication was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by the Katz Family.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Katz Family
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Booklet produced by the United States 7th Army about Dachau concentration camp in Germany, not long after the Division liberated the camp. This publication is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Booklet ; 67 p. ; illustrated ; 27 cm. [10.500 x 8.000 in.] Contents: I. Foreword, William W. Quinn II. Dachau, concentration camp / OSS Section, Seventh Army III. Dachau, concentration camp and town / PWB Section, Seventh Army IV. Dachau, concentration camp / CIC Detachment, Seventh Army. Notes:"The sections comprising this report were prepared by the agencies indicated"--Foreword. Electronic versions available internally at USHMM.
Corporate Bodies
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army. Army, 7th
Subjects
- Concentration camps--Germany--Dachau--Pictorial works.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Dachau.
Genre
- Object
- Books and Published Materials