Julius Streicher
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Julius Sebastian Streicher was a German publicist, politician, and convicted war criminal. A member of the Nazi Party, he served as the Gauleiter of Franconia and a member of the Reichstag, the nation
Streicher in 1935
Public reading of Der Stürmer, Worms, 1933
The Grand Synagogue of Nuremberg was built in 1874, and was ordered destroyed in 1938 by Julius Streicher – supposedly because he disapproved of its architecture – as part of what came to be known as Kristallnacht.
The body of Julius Streicher after being hanged, 16 October 1946
Esther 9
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Esther 9 is the ninth chapter of the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. The author of the book is unknown and modern scholars have established that the fin
Julius Streicher
…of the scaffold he cried out "Heil Hitler!". When he mounted the platform, he delivered his last sneering reference to Jewish scripture, snapping "Purimfest!" Streicher's final declaration before the hood went over his head was, "The Bolsheviks will hang you one day!" Joseph Kingsbury-Smith, a journalist…
Mordecai and Esther. Synagogue interior wood panel from Dura Europos, Syria. 245 CE.
Esther and Mordechai writing the second letter of Purim. Aert de Gelder (1685).
The page on a scroll of Esther starting with the list of Haman's sons (some letters are written in unusual sizes in lines 2, 8 and 11)