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Façades for the International Commission
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In the Terezin concentration camp, before a visit by the International Red Cross and the Danish Red Cross in 1944, the Nazis created an elaborate ruse, designed to convince the delegation that the…

Contributor:

Bedrich Fritta

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Date:

1943–1944

Subjects:

Jewish quarters, Genocide, Nazis, Holocaust

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Sketch of storefronts next to a pile of corpses and brick wall and a couple is kissing against a wall in left foreground.
Map of Suriname
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By the time this sea pilot’s map of Suriname was created in 1680, there was a well-established Jewish community there. In the 1660s, Jewish communities arose on the Caribbean islands of Martinique…

Contributor:

Hendrik Doncker

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

ca. 1688

Subjects:

Colonialism, Agriculture, Jewish quarters, Diaspora, Travel

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Print & Book Culture
Map depicting rivers and settlements, an image of a large building with a waterwheel, and an image of small huts with palm trees at the top and two cherubs with Dutch text.
Map of the City of Venice, ca. 1729
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This eighteenth-century map of Venice includes the ghetto within which the city’s Jews were required to live from 1516 until Napoleon’s conquest of the Republic of Venice in 1797. The Venice ghetto…

Contributor:

Lodovico Furlanetto

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

ca. 1729

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish quarters, Christian-Jewish relations, Print

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Architecture
Small image of topographical cityscape.