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  1. Anti-Roosevelt campaign button

  2. American anti-Japanese "hunting license"

    American propaganda document: anti-Japanese "hunting license." Satirical "Japanese Hunting License" document with no names filled in.

  3. Poster stamp

    American propaganda anti-Axis poster stamp

  4. Handkerchief

    White handkerchief that belonged to Eugen Fellner.

  5. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button, "Jap Hunting License/Open Season/No Limit" and image of crossed weapons.

  6. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  7. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  8. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin-back button, "Button Your Lip."

  9. Teardrop pendant with an engraved inscription

    Teardrop shaped pendant with Hebrew inscriptions on both sides

  10. 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...

  11. 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.

  12. We don't want Eleanor campaign button

  13. 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...

  14. Pin-back button

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

  15. German propaganda leaflet

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

  16. Pin-back button

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

  17. 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.

  18. 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...

  19. Hitler Wants Us to Believe poster

    Poster exclaiming that Americans Will Not be Fooled!

  20. 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...