Photograph on display in HMTC’s museum that depicts the public humiliation of a Jewish man and his non-Jewish girlfriend.

In this edition of “Curator’s Corner” from August 5, 2020, Dr. Thorin Tritter, HMTC’s Museum and Programming Director, focused on a large photograph in our gallery that captured the public humiliation of a Jewish man and his non-Jewish girlfriend. Taken seven months after Hitler’s rise to power, the photograph shows attacks on Jews that preceded any legal justification. If you missed the program you can watch it now:

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