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title: 'Židovi: izložba o razvoju židovstva (Jews: Exhibition on the Development of Jewry), Zagreb'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/zidovi-izlozba-ndh-1942/
description: Poster for a state exhibition in Zagreb, 1 May to 1 June 1942. White block lettering reads 'Židovi' (Jews) over a nude warrior with a sword and a…
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Antisemitic exhibition poster showing a warrior fighting a serpent marked with six-pointed stars. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Židovi: izložba o razvoju židovstva (Jews: Exhibition on the Development of Jewry), Zagreb](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/zidovi-izlozba-ndh-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/zidovi-izlozba-ndh-1942.jpg)

# Židovi: izložba o razvoju židovstva (Jews: Exhibition on the Development of Jewry), Zagreb

Poster for a state exhibition in Zagreb, 1 May to 1 June 1942. White block lettering reads 'Židovi' (Jews) over a nude warrior with a sword and a checkerboard shield bearing the Ustaša 'U', who fights a large serpent marked with six-pointed stars. The poster equates the named group with a serpent and presents the exhibition as its 'solution'.

## Text on the object

Original (Croatian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ŽIDOVI
IZLOŽBA O RAZVOJU ŽIDOVSTVA
I NJIHOVOG RUŠILAČKOG RADA U
HRVATSKOJ PRIJE 10.IV.1941
RJEŠENJE ŽIDOVSKOG
PITANJA U N.D.H.
1.V.1942  1.VI.1942
UMJETNIČKI PAVILJON NA STROSSMAYEROVOM TRGU
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
JEWS
EXHIBITION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF JEWRY
AND THEIR DESTRUCTIVE WORK IN
CROATIA BEFORE 10 APRIL 1941
SOLUTION OF THE JEWISH
QUESTION IN THE N.D.H.
1 MAY 1942  1 JUNE 1942
ART PAVILION ON STROSSMAYER SQUARE
```

Read from the committed image. The shield carries a red-and-white checkerboard with the Ustaša 'U' emblem; it has no further text.

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