Collection

Montreal Holocaust Museum

Description Level

Item

Material Type

textual record

Physical Description

Booklet : Paper : Printed : Ink : beige, black ; Ht: 17 in. x W: 11,5 in.

Other Title Information

Documentary Artifact

Date

[ca. 1938]

Physical Condition

Poor

Language

English

French

Notes

32 pages, paper cover. Folded once horizontally. Title on cover in large letters, with an image of a key instead of the word. Price of 5 cents listed at top right corner. Narrative: The Clé du Mystère (Key of the Mystery) was an anonymous pamphlet, distributed in Canada by the Montreal Anti-Communist Committee (Comité Anticommuniste de Montréal). A virulently antisemitic publication based on Medieval superstitions about Jews as bloodthirsty world conspirators, it was distributed first in Switzerland and other parts of Europe, before being printed and distributed in Montreal. The pamphlet presents a collection of quotes and so-called evidence of the presence of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy, with subtitles such as "Communism means Jewish conquest" and “Why the Jews cannot be Canadian”.

Accession No.

2011X.41.06

Name Access

Orenstein, Benjamin

Places

Montreal, Canada, North America

Archival / Genealogical

Archival Descriptions

Repository

Montreal Holocaust Museum

Less detail