“Zochor eis asher Osoh Lecho Amolek!” Poster issued by the Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews.

(HOLOCAUST).

Munich, c. 1945

This poster, issued by The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Zone of Occupation in Germany is entitled with the Biblical commandment to remember the archetypal villain in Jewish history - Amalek - and his descendants, and to orally recall persecutions against the Jews (Deut 25:17). The image of clock-hands to evoke time through history, identifies four other eras of annihilations of Jews and the texts that gave them record: Enslavement in Egypt, Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, the Spanish Expulsion, and the Chmielnicki Massacres of 1648-49. Finally a skeleton orders in Yiddish to collect and transcribe memories, evoking the dying wishes of the Holocaust’s martyrs to keep their history alive.