Metadata: Collection of Posters
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Inter-Municipal Historical Archives “Šabac“
- Holding institution (official language):
- Међуопштински историјски архив „Шабац (Međuopštinski istorijski arhiv „Šabac“)
- Postal address:
- Vojvode Mišića 18, 15 000 Šabac, Republic of Serbia
- Phone number:
- (+381) 15 354 992
- Web address:
- https://arhivsabac.org.rs/
- Email:
- arhivsabac@gmail.com
- Reference number:
- MOIAS-PL
- Title:
- Collection of Posters
- Title (official language):
- Збирка плаката
- Creator/accumulator:
- Inter-Municipal Historical Archives “Šabac“
- Date(s):
- 1903/1957
- Language:
- Serbian
- German
- Extent:
- 828 posters
- Type of material:
- Graphic material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection was created by combining the posters from numerous institutions, cultural, educational and sports organisations in Šabac: Šabac Public Library and Reading Room, National University, Šabac Theatre, the City Government, the Society of Friends of France, the Association of War Combatants, the Cinema "Paris", Committee for Cultural Cooperation with USSR, Šabac High School and the Sokol Society. The collection also includes posters of the Croatian National Theatre from Zagreb, the National Theatre from Sarajevo, as well as war posters created in 1941-1944.
There are posters which represent the activities of Jews from Šabac and elsewhere, namely: a lecture by Jacob Calderon entitled "Infectious Diseases in Livestock" (1929) was announced on a poster, likewise a lecture of Dr Albert Baron entitled "The Meaning of Art in Life" (1934), a lecture of Dr Ferdinand Blumenthal on treatment of wounds and primary medical care, and in 1954 Stana Đurić Klein’s lecture "About Beethoven”.
Posters created in the period 1941-1944 were of a propaganda nature. German posters were created mainly in the Propaganda Department of the "Southeast", which worked within the German occupation authorities. The oldest posters from the period of the Second World War are related to 22 June 1941 when Operation Barbarossa and the German attack on the Soviet Union began. That event was represented as the conflict between a noble German soldier and a three-headed monster. The three heads on the monster were Judaism, capitalism and communism. Other posters showed global Judaism and the Comintern as a danger to the civilised world. One of the posters caricatured Jews at the Wailing Wall praying for Stalin, all under the eye of a British soldier sitting behind a cannon. Almost all posters related to the Soviet Union and Stalin personally connected Jews and Stalin, whether Stalin resembled a stereotypical image of a Jew or communism was equated with Judaism. Posters depicting Churchill and the British also ideologically connected them to Jews. Posters related to the United States were antisemitic and often racist towards African Americans. Posters aimed at Serbs under German occupation suggested that Germany liberated Serbia and the Serbs from unjust rulers, primarily bankers, merchants and Jews. Most of the posters were of a caricature type with clearly expressed religious, national and physical prejudices.
- Archival history:
- The collection was created in the archives in the 1970s by the transfer of posters from various institutions, including posters of numerous cultural and educational organisations from Šabac, government bodies, German war propaganda posters, posters of lectures, cinema and theatre performances. The collection comprises 828 posters.
- Access points: locations:
- Šabac
- Serbia
- Yugoslavia
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kalderon, Jakov
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic propaganda
- Posters
- World War II
- System of arrangement:
- The collection was arranged into three groups: the first group of posters depicting the political life in Šabac from the beginning of the 20th century to now, the second group of posters depicting the cultural, entertainment and sport life in Šabac, the third group were propaganda posters.
- Finding aids:
- An analytical inventory exists.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Ivan Dosković; Inter-Municipal Historical Archives “Šabac“; 2021
