Michael D. Zentman collection

Identifier: irn524525
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Michael D. Zentman.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of American anti-Hitler, anti-Axis, and anti-Stalin propaganda materials, including pins, postcards, toys, advertisements, envelope, and other ephemera.

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Displaying items 1 to 17 of 17

Cartoon postcard of 2 WACS sitting on Hitler
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn189732
- English
- overall: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Cartoon postcard of a WAC hitting Hitler with a rolling pin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn189733
- English
- overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Hotel advertising matchbook with anti-war slogans
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn189734
- English
- overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Hotel advertising matchbook with anti-Axis slogans
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn189735
- English
- overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Inscribed matchbook with an image of Hitler as a snake
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn189737
- English
- overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Wooden wheel punching toy with Hitler as target
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn600604
- English
- overall: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 32.500 inches (82.55 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Target practice game with Hitler as the target
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn600700
- English
- overall: Height: 14.375 inches (36.513 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Depth: 22.500 inches (57.15 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Nuts! to leaders sign with image of Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn600701
- English
- 1940
- overall: Height: 21.500 inches (54.61 cm) | Width: 22.250 inches (56.515 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Anti-Axis pin calling for the extermination of Axis rats
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn600704
- English
- 1941-1945
- overall: | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Diameter: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Anti-Axis pin-back button distributed in the United States during World War II. The button compares the leaders of Germany, Italy, and Japan to rats and calls for their extermination. The name under the Japanese face, referred to as Togo, may refer to Shigenori Tōgō, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs at the beginning of the war. The name may also be a misspelling of Tojo, a reference to Hideki Tojo who was Prime Minister of Japan during the war and a more popular target of American propaganda. After the Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Germany’s declaratio...
Anti-Axis propaganda envelope
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn601389
- English
- overall: Height: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Let's Pull Together pin with Uncle Sam hanging Hitler
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn605725
- English
- overall: | Diameter: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
To Hell with Hitler pin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn605726
- English
- overall: | Diameter: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Buy US defense bonds Take a Punch at Hitler game
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn610208
- English
- overall: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Punch card game encouraging people to buy US Defense bonds and stamps. The United States Treasury Department sponsored 8 war loan drives from 1942 to 1945. The public could purchase a $25 war bond for $18.75 to help pay for the military’s expenses. The war bond could be redeemed 10 years after purchase for the full $25. If you could not afford a war bond, you could buy a war stamps, starting at 10 cents, which could be saved to purchase a bond. Bond quotas were set up on the national, state, county, and town levels to encourage the sale of war bonds. Volunteers went door-to-door to sell war...
Puzzle of the Pigs anti-Hitler game
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn610209
- English
- overall: Height: 15.250 inches (38.735 cm) | Width: 12.187 inches (30.955 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Detroit Outproduce Hitler pin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn610259
- English
- overall: | Diameter: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Kick 'em in the Axis pin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn610260
- English
- overall: | Diameter: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Hitler Wanted for Murder pin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn610289
- English
- 1941-1945
- overall: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Anti-Nazi pin-back button distributed in the United States during World War II. The pin falsely claims that Adolf Hitler’s real name is Adolf Schicklgruber (misspelled on the pin as Schickelgruber). An assertion which was originated by Hans Habe, a Viennese Jewish writer. The claim was based on the last name of Hitler’s father, who was born Alois Shicklgruber. Before Hitler was born, Alois changed his name and it became Alois Hitler. The motif of Hitler’s “real” name was likely an attempt to ridicule the leader and belittle him to the public. Buttons of this type came in various sizes, rang...