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  1. Anti-Roosevelt 1940 Presidential Campaign button

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn561401
    • English
    • overall: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)

    Anti-Roosevelt campaign button for the 1940 Presidential Election. Several variations of this button were manufactured with different text size and font styles. Campaign buttons were used to build awareness, and encourage positive word of mouth for the candidates. In the 1940 Presidential election incumbent president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was running against Republican challenger, Wendell Willkie. FDR was running for an unprecedented third term, which was a major factor the Republicans pressed during the campaign. Willkie also challenged FDR’s New Deal policies and his approach t...

  2. Ceramic figurine of a skunk with Adolf Hitler's face

    Figurine of a skunk painted in black and white with the face of Adolf Hitler. The tail is broken off from the body.

  3. We don't want Eleanor campaign button

  4. Anti-Axis pin calling for the extermination of Axis rats

    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...

  5. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button, "A Jap's a Jap!"

  6. German propaganda leaflet

    Leaflet: "What about calling up Sam Levy..."; dated January 1945; in English

  7. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin-back button, "Hang all Facist"

  8. Zygmunt Wieczorek collection

    Contains documents, photographs, identity cards, letters, and immigration paperwork for Zygmunt Wieczorek (b. 27 November 1912 in Argemunde, Berlin) who lived in Drążek, Poland. A Roman Catholic who served in the Polish military in Poznan, Wieczorek was captured an interned as a POW in forced labor at Probst shoe factory in Hettstedt, Germany. Includes a postwar letter from the factory owner trying to obtain assistance and detailing conditions in the Soviet Zone in Germany.

  9. Peter Lande papers

    The Peter Lande papers include photograph albums, journal entries, and loose photographs documenting Peter Lande’s family in 1925-1926 and Lande himself as a baby in Berlin in 1932-1933. The first photograph album is titled “1926” and primarily includes photographs of Lande’s parents and grandparents in 1925 and 1926 in Braunlage, Münster, Hildesheim, Braunschweig, and Wolfenbüttel in Germany, and on vacation in La Grave and Malcesine. The second photograph album is titled “Wolfgang 1932-33” and includes baby photographs of Lande during his first year in Berlin interspersed with journal ent...

  10. Hitler Wants Us to Believe poster

    Poster exclaiming that Americans Will Not be Fooled!

  11. Pinus Rubinstein collection

    The Pinus Rubinstein collection consists of a diary, in three volumes, kept by Rubinstein from 1900 to 1949, and written primarily while he lived in Bukovina, in Czernowitz and Sadagora (Chernivtsi and Sadhora, Ukraine). The diaries begin with Rubinstein’s adolescent years in Sadagora, his service in the Austrian Army in World War I, his marriage and life in Czernowitz in the inter-war years, life in German-occupied Czernowitz from 1941-1944, and his family’s post-war journey to Romania and Austria and eventually Israel. The diaries also contain poetry and stories from Rubinstein, signed un...

  12. My story: Another Holocaust survivor

    Typescript memoir, 60 pages, by Gibor Weinberger, describing his childhood in Budapest, his family's experiences of antisemitic discrimination in Hungary, the German occupation of 1944 and establishmen of a Jewish ghetto in Budapest, and how he and his mother escaped and were sheltered by a Gentile aunt in a suburb of Budapest for the duration of the occupation. Also describes his life after liberation, including years with relatives in Turkey, immigration to Israel, employment on an Israeli cruise ship, and meeting and marrying his Canadian-born wife.

  13. Selected records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych w Warszawie (Sygn. 322)

    Contains selected records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Warsaw. The materials cover a variety of topics related to political and economic situation in Europe and the world in the years preceding the outbreak of World War II: the League of Nations; Polish policy towards Jewish populations and general issues of national minorities; the ban on ritual slaughter in Poland in 1936; Polish clergy and antisemitism; the politics of the Vatican towards Germany; aid for refugees from Germany; the condition of minorities in Poland, Germany and other countries; Polish Jews in Germany; the emigra...

  14. "One Million Dollar Campaign," broadside ("Yeshiva Reshith Chochma Shearith Hapletah," New York)

    One broadside, titled "One Million Dollar Campaign," related to the fundraising efforts for the Yeshiva "Reshith Chochma Shearith Hapletah," under the leadership of Rabbi Solomon Leib Halberstam (the Klausenburger Rabbi), with the purpose of establishing a Torah institute for Jewish refugees from Europe, in Brooklyn, New York, 1947. In addition to a new year's greeting, the broadside contains a letter in English and Yiddish encouraging the reader to donate to this project, with reproductions of various newspaper articles about it on the verso of the broadside.

  15. Torchlight parade

    Torchlight parade circling around a bonfire.

  16. Westerbork, Jewish transit camp Westerbork, Judendurchgangslager (Fond 250i)

    This collection contains documents relating to the Westerbork Jewish transit camp between 1942-1945, including are reports, maps and some photos as well as pre-war correspondence, and post-war court proceedings. The collections also contains documents on the refugee camp Westerbork between 1939-1942, as it was still under Dutch administration. A special component of the collection is called “Westerbork kartothek” containing lists of name and date of birth of deportees, their last official place of residence before leaving for Westerbork and the date of shipment from the camp. These lists we...

  17. Selected records of the court of the First Instance in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą Sąd Grodzki w Nowym Mieście nad Pilicą (Sygn.1089)

    Court civil cases relating to promissory notes and repayment of debts. Parties in these processes were Jews, residents of Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą. The files contain personal data about participants of lawsuits.

  18. Rubin family collection

    The Rubin family collection contains photographs and immigration papers documenting the lives of the Rubin family in Zambrów, Poland and the United States. Included is the passport and naturalization certificate of Mier Rubin. There is also a family photograph album with photographs of the Rubin family in Zambrów and in the United States. Additionally, there is a new year's card with a message in Hebrew.

  19. Irwin Newman collection

    Contains prewar photographs of the family of Nathan Katz (donor's cousin) in Poland and postwar photographs of Nachman Katz in a DP camp.

  20. Fiszelow family papers

    Consists of postcards and letters, in Yiddish, written mostly by Josef Fishelov (Fiszelow) near Pinsk, Poland (now Belarus), from 1920-1948. The postcards are colorful and depict Yiddish greetings and artistic scenes, including of emigration. The correspondence, most of which is undated, was sent to his mother and siblings, many of whom immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. Includes several letters written 1939-1941 and two postwar letters, written in 1945 and 1948 by Josef's son, Nachum, who emigrated to Palestine after the war; in these letters, he explains what happened to the Je...