A large poster calling on all residents of occupied Yugoslavia to come and regularize their housing status. Novi ...

A large poster calling on all residents of occupied Yugoslavia to come and regularize their housing status. Novi Sad, October 1941

KUNDMACHUNG über die neu Regelung der Durchführung der persönlichen Anmeldepflicht - "Instructions regarding the new regulation of fulfilling the personal registration obligation" - a large poster calling on all residents of Yugoslavia occupied by the Axis powers, to come and register their places of residence, as part of the isolation of the Jewish population, and its marking for extermination. Occupied Novi Sad, October 7, 1941. German. 

A large poster addressing every Hungarian citizen of the territories of Yugoslavia occupied by the Axis powers, which were annexed to Hungary, as of October 11, 1941. The poster strongly demands that every Hungarian citizen, as well as a person without citizenship certificates, come and fill out registration forms to arrange his status - an apartment owner, a guest in the city for a fixed time of more than 24 hours, an apartment owner's tenants must be reported, people who live permanently in boats, employees who live with their employers, and more, everyone must come and fill out personal registration forms that include their field of occupation and place of residence. It was also written that every son over the age of 12 and a daughter over the age of 16 must be registered, families who have changed their surname must report their previous surname. The registration was required to be carried out by each person over the age of 18 himself, and those under the age of 18 were tasked with the parents, employer, guardian, or anyone under his care to come and register his details. It also states that it is mandatory to provide the names of relatives who do not live in their homes, and to present rental or purchase forms of apartments made at that time, and hotel owners must report all those staying under their care. A person who fails to follow the specified instructions will be punished with imprisonment for up to 15 days, and a fine.

This poster was published as the first step towards locating the Jewish population and isolating it for annihilation. In 1941, the Axis powers invaded Yugoslavia. Northern Yugoslavia, including Novi Sad, was annexed to Hungary, which slaughtered and expelled some 5,000 of the city's residents, Jews and Serbs. With the Hungarian occupation in 1941, the Jewish population of Novi Sad numbered about 4,100. The community was annihilated in several stages, by the Hungarians and then by the Nazis. After registering and locating the places of the Jewish colonies, the Hungarians began a wave of random arrests, torture and murder of individual Jews. A full curfew was imposed on the city. Hungarian soldiers and policemen passed through the homes of Jews and Serbs, looting them, arresting and murdering dozens of their inhabitants. On the third night of the operation, the Hungarian gendarmes staged a violent incident, which served as a pretext for systematic mass slaughter. Hundreds of Jews and Serbs were marched to the bank of the Danube, where they were lined up and shot to death. In one raid by the Hungarian police in 1942, 1246 civilians were murdered, including 800 Jews, and their bodies were thrown into the frozen Danube River. The massacre provoked protests in Hungarian circles and was stopped by order from Budapest, but the mistreatment of the city's Jews continued. All the men were recruited into labor battalions in Hungary and later on the eastern front. The final phase of the extermination began in March 1944, with the entry of Nazi forces into the city. With the help of the Hungarians, the Germans collected all the Jews who remained in the city, and by May they had all been deported to Auschwitz. The remains of private and communal property were confiscated. Only about 1,200 of the Jews of Novi Sad survived the Holocaust.

95x64 cm. Fold marks. Slight tears along the fold marks, and along the margins. Good condition.