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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Give Roosevelt his rest campaign button

  2. Moses and Mainzer families collection

    The collection consists of documents and correspondence, a Pentateuch, ID cards, and passports relating to the experiences of Meta Moses and Fritz Mainzer before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  3. American propaganda poster depicting Mussolini, Tojo, and Hitler listening for information

    Poster depicting the heads of Axis leaders, Benito Mussolini of Italy, Hideki Tojo of Japan, and Adolf Hitler of Germany, above a clear warning. Each man is holding a hand cupped to one ear, suggesting that he is listening carefully for any careless talk revealing valuable information about the United States or their allies. The poster was designed by Ralph Iligan, an artist working for the Graphics Division of the United States Office of War Information, in 1942. The need to manage information about the war on the home front led to the establishment of the OWI in June 1942. This office con...

  4. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button, "Japs Get Out!"

  5. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  6. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  7. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button. "Jap Hunting License/Open Season/No Limit." Lettering around image of a Japanese person with stereotypical features and a red star on his military cap.

  8. No Third Term campaign button

  9. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button, "Swat the Jap"

  10. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  11. Display board with pins

    American propaganda anti-Axis board with pins

  12. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  13. Display board with pins

    Display board with series of American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back buttons. Display board reads "Wear a Button/Remember Pearl Harbor/Buy War Bonds", and each identical pin has the words "Remember Pearl Harbor" and an American flag. The board is dated 1942.

  14. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button, "Japan Wanted for Murder"

  15. Fellner family papers

    The Fellner family papers document the immigration experiences of Rudolf and Anita Fellner, along with other family members, trying to escape Nazi persecution in Austria and Germany in 1938-1939. The papers include identification papers, immigration papers, and photographs related to Rudolf’s emigration from Vienna, Austria to the United States, his conducting career, and his service in the United States Army; Anita Fellner’s emigration from Fischach, Germany via a Kindertransport; and the emigration difficulties Rudolf’s parents Eugen and Stefanie faced when leaving Vienna on the SS Pentch...

  16. Hitler Wanted for Murder pin

    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...

  17. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  18. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  19. Anti-Roosevelt campaign button

  20. American anti-Japanese "hunting license"

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