Jewish American ephemera and archival collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3271
• English
• overall: Height: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Width: 10.875 inches (27.623 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Sheet of poster stamps issued in 1944 by the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe. The design was created by the Jewish artist, Arthur Szyk, to develop public interest in the Committee’s humanitarian efforts. Szyk was himself an immigrant born in Łódź, Poland, and lost his mother in the Holocaust. The mission of the Committee was a personal cause for Szyk, and he became one of the founding members. Although they were not valid for postage, poster stamps could be affixed to letters and envelopes as fundraising, propaganda, and educational tools. The Emergency Committee to ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3272
• English
• 1942
• overall: Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Sheet of poster stamps issued and distributed in 1942 by the American Federation for Polish Jews. Although they were not valid for postage, poster stamps could be affixed to letters and envelopes as fundraising, propaganda, and educational tools. The American Federation for Polish Jews was founded in 1908 in New York City as the Federation of Russian-Polish Hebrews, and changed their name in the 1920s. During the Holocaust, the American Federation coordinated with the World Federation to provide relief and assistance to Jews living in Poland. Despite the promise printed on the stamp to not ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3273
• English
• overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 8.375 inches (21.273 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Row of first-issue poster stamps issued and distributed in February 1944 by the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, to create public interest in their humanitarian efforts. They were created by Jewish artist, Arthur Szyk, and based off his previous works. The first is copied from a 1942 piece entitled “Tears of Rage,” and depicts a soldier angered at the murder and suffering of Jews by the Nazis. The second and fourth designs, featuring two frightened Jewish children, are excerpts from a 1943 piece entitled “To Be Shot, as Dangerous Enemies of the Third Reich…” The fift...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3783
• English
• 1940
• overall: Height: 11.140 inches (28.296 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3785
• English
• 1940
• overall: Height: 12.990 inches (32.995 cm) | Width: 7.520 inches (19.101 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3801
• English
• overall: Height: 8.110 inches (20.599 cm) | Width: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Brochure printed by Chicago Committee for the Defense of Human Rights Against Naziism.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3805
• English
• 1940
• overall: Height: 12.010 inches (30.505 cm) | Width: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3807
• English
• 1942
• overall: Height: 7.130 inches (18.11 cm) | Width: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3809
• English
• 1940
• overall: Height: 12.010 inches (30.505 cm) | Width: 7.360 inches (18.694 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3815
• English
• overall: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

“Halt Hitler” anti-Nazi pin-back button manufactured during World War II in the United States. In the early 1900s, manufacturers began producing button pins that were used to rally support for a variety of causes. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, and for the rest of the decade, American newspapers frequently reported on the increasing persecution of Jews and the suppression of their rights. American Jewish leaders employed a variety of overt and behind-the-scenes tactics to encourage the American government to take action, but the majority of citizens o...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3816
• English
• 1943
• overall: | Diameter: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3817
• English
• 1943
• overall: | Diameter: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3822
• English
• overall: Height: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Commemorative envelope and stamps with blank stationery, depicting four United States Army chaplains who died after their ship was sunk by a German U boat. Rabbi Alexander Goode, Reverend George L. Fox, Reverend Clark V. Poling, and Reverend John P. Washington were among the 902 people onboard the Army Transport Dorchester during the early hours of February 3, 1943, when it was fatally hit by a torpedo from a German U boat in the North Atlantic Ocean. The explosion killed and wounded many men, and created chaos amongst the rest. The four chaplains attempted to help and comfort the others ab...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3823
• English
• overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 6.350 inches (16.129 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Commemorative envelope and stamps with blank stationery, depicting four United States Army chaplains who died after their ship was sunk by a German U boat. Rabbi Alexander Goode, Reverend George L. Fox, Reverend Clark V. Poling, and Reverend John P. Washington were among the 902 people onboard the Army Transport Dorchester during the early hours of February 3, 1943, when it was fatally hit by a torpedo from a German U boat in the North Atlantic Ocean. The explosion killed and wounded many men, and created chaos amongst the rest. The four chaplains attempted to help and comfort the others ab...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3824
• English
• 1941
• overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Poster stamp distributed in 1941 by the American Federation for Polish Jews. The design was created by the Jewish artist, Arthur Szyk, used to develop public interest in the Federation’s humanitarian efforts. Szyk was himself an immigrant born in Łódź, Poland, and lost his mother in the Holocaust, making the Federation’s mission a personal cause for him. Although they were not valid for postage, poster stamps could be affixed to letters and envelopes as fundraising, propaganda, and educational tools. The American Federation for Polish Jews was founded in 1908 in New York City as the Federat...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3825
• English
• overall: Height: 10.980 inches (27.889 cm) | Width: 16.180 inches (41.097 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Poster concerning volunteer solicitation for the aide of Jewish refugees. (Joint Distribution Committee, United Palestine Appeal, National Refugee Service, Refugee Work in Chicago).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3826
• English
• overall: Height: 10.980 inches (27.889 cm) | Width: 8.430 inches (21.412 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3828
• English
• 1942
• overall: Height: 5.120 inches (13.005 cm) | Width: 2.990 inches (7.595 cm) | Depth: 0.630 inches (1.6 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3829
• English
• 1929
• Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 4.610 inches (11.709 cm) | Depth: 0.240 inches (0.61 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Jewish mourning book of prayers to commemorate death of a relative.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3830
• English
• overall: Height: 4.370 inches (11.1 cm) | Width: 5.630 inches (14.3 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago