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A Jewish cafe painted with antisemitic graffiti. Vienna, Austria, November 1938. [LCID: 65639a]
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antisemitism

Sometimes called "the longest hatred," antisemitism has persisted in many forms for over two thousand years. The racial antisemitism of the National Socialists (Nazis) took hatred of Jews to a genocidal extreme, yet the Holocaust began with words and ideas: stereotypes, sinister cartoons, and the gradual spread of hate.

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'A Dangerous Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' opened in the Gonda Education Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial ... [LCID: prot1]
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'A Dangerous Lie: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' exhibition
A Jewish man forced to paint anti-Jewish graffiti on a shuttered storefront. [LCID: 01508]
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A Jewish man is forced to paint anti-Jewish graffiti on a storefront in Vienna
A sign outside a town in northern Bavaria warns: "City of Hersbruck. [LCID: 86302]
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Antisemitic sign outside a town in northern Bavaria
Abraham Lewent [LCID: ala0254m]
Oral History
Abraham Lewent describes performing forced labor in Warsaw and increased Polish antisemitism
A group of eight uniformed soldiers with light skin tone arranged in two rows. The back row is standing, while the bottom row is sitting on a bench. There is a mostly white dog sitting between two soldiers in the front row.
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Adolf Hitler’s First Written Statement on the "Jewish Question"
Poster of a pro-Dreyfus parlor game, France, ca. 1898
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Alfred Dreyfus and the "Dreyfus Affair"
Alfred Rosenberg's 1923 commentary on the Protocols (this copy is the fourth edition) reinforced Nazi anti-Jewish ideology. [LCID: p0007]
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Alfred Rosenberg's 1923 commentary on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
This Arabic translation of the Protocols by Ajaj Nuwayid also has appeared on a Web site sponsored by the Palestinian State Information ... [LCID: p0009]
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An Arabic translation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Protesters at an anti-Israel rally. Washington, DC, March 2010. [LCID: misuse1]
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Anti-Israel rally
Germans in front of Jewish-owned department store in Berlin, anti-Jewish boycott. Berlin, Germany, April 1, 1933.
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Anti-Jewish Boycott
Boycott poster. Berlin, Germany, April 1, 1933. [LCID: 70360]
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Anti-Jewish boycott poster in Berlin
People crowded around an antisemitic "Pesti Ujság" newspaper display
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Anti-Jewish Laws in Hungary
Forced labor in Tunisia
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Anti-Jewish Legislation in North Africa
The front page of a German passport is filled out and stamped in black ink. A large red J is stamped in the top left corner.
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Anti-Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany
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Anti-Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany - Photographs
A notice posted by a student group calling for Romanians to protest against the rights of Jews. [LCID: 74151]
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Anti-Jewish poster in Romania

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