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

(HOLOCAUST).

Munich, c. 1945

Some wear and repair along center horizontal fold.

“Remember what Amalek did to you!” Issued in one of the DP Camps in the American Zone of Occupation in Germany, this poster is entitled with the Biblical commandment to remember the archetypal villain in Jewish history - Amalek - and his descendants, and to orally record persecutions against Jews (Deut 25:17). The image of clock-hands to evoke time through history, identifies four other eras of attempted Jewish annihilation 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 “Gather and record,” that is, collect and transcribe memories, evoking the dying wishes of Holocaust’s martyrs to keep their history alive.