A comprehensive collection of anti-Semitic artifacts, knick-knacks, brochures and other ephemeral material has recently been acquired by the German Historical Museum in Berlin, new reports indicate. The collection, which the museum says was never commercially available, was comprehensively compiled in the 1980s by Wolfgang Haney, a Holocaust survivor who sheltered Jews from the Nazis during the height of the Nazis. the Second World War. Haney, who also wrote six books, worked tirelessly to collect postcards, photographs, posters, coins, stickers; anything that is purported to be disposable or irrelevant that could further illustrate the anti-Semitic trauma to which the Jews were subjected to the hands of the nazis.
“My desire and my goal is to inform the German population, especially the youth, and to explain that what the Nazis [did] has been an unimaginable disaster for Germany, ”Haney said in a statement. “In schools, teachers hear about the Nazis, but they are not as informed. It is very important that they know what happened. Before, the Germans said they had done it and they [acknowledged that the Holocaust] was very bad. But now, slowly, anti-Semitism is starting again.
Indeed, a rising tide of resurgent anti-Semitism has recently stain the world. In January of this year, the Manhattan Jewish Heritage Museum in Battery Park City was marked with a Confederate flag, an easily recognizable symbol of white supremacy. In addition, there has recently been a significant increase in the theft of Nazi memorabilia from museums, and these artifacts have also fetched significant sums at auction.
Raphael Gross, the director of the German Historical Museum, said in a statement that Haney’s collection “will help us and our visitors to better understand how prevalent anti-Semitic views, images and hate propaganda are in Germany and in other European countries from the middle of the 19th century.
