Alfred Dreyfus Stripped of Rank

ID: 76 ~ Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Degradation_alfred_dreyfus.jpg ~ Creator: Henri Meyer ~ Date: 1895

This file appears in: Musee d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme (Museum of Jewish Art and History)

Dreyfus having his sword wrongly broken in an act of public humiliation. At this event his military stripes were also torn.

This file appears in: Musee d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme (Museum of Jewish Art and History)

Musee d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme (Museum of Jewish Art and History)

By Savannah Slusher

Upon entering the courtyard of the Musee d’art et d’histoire du Judaisme, right in the center, you encounter a figural sculpture of a man. That man was known as Alfred Dreyfus and he divided the…