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

  1. Poster stamp

    American propaganda anti-Axis poster stamp

  2. Handkerchief

    White handkerchief that belonged to Eugen Fellner.

  3. Pin-back button

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

  4. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  5. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  6. Pin-back button

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

  7. Teardrop pendant with an engraved inscription

    Teardrop shaped pendant with Hebrew inscriptions on both sides

  8. 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...

  9. Lubomir Skrovina correspondence

    Personal correspondence of Lubomir Skrovina (donor's father) from the period of his deployment on the Eastern Front during WWII

  10. 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.

  11. We don't want Eleanor campaign button

  12. 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...

  13. Pin-back button

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

  14. German propaganda leaflet

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

  15. Pin-back button

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

  16. Leo Stein collection

    Photographs illustrating the experiences of Eleazar Zalcenstein [sp] and his parents Prywa and Gabriel in the Łódź Ghetto and Gabriel and Eleazar (Lolek or Leo) who survived and were both in displaced persons camps after the war.

  17. Candelabra used during Shabbat by Mina Drukman Deac's family

    Candelabra owned by Mina Drukman Deac, born on March 14, 1932 in Chernivtsi, who was deported with her family of five to Transnistria, where her father was killed. This candlestick was taken with them to Transnistria and was used there by the family during Shabbat.

  18. Shpatsiren zenen mir gegangen | Tants a bisele mit mir

    Relatively rare Soviet Yiddish recordings that obliquely document anti-Jewish policies in the postwar USSR. A: Shpatsiren zenen mir gegangen; B: Tants a bisele mit mir. Folksinger Zinovy Shulman (1904-1977) was imprisoned in 1949. The song on Shulman's "B" side, here called "Tants a bisele mit mir" (Dance with me a while), was the source for the Vilna ghetto song, "Hot zikh mir di shikh tserisn" (I've torn my shoes). Phonograph record 4 (purple label): Cyrillic, 2 sides. Zinovy Shulman, voice N. G. Valter, piano (Leningrad & Moscow, 1949: Gramplasttrest 11617-11618)

  19. Concentration camp uniform worn by Mihaly Borsa

    Two-part prisoner uniform, a jacket and pants, worn by Mihaly Borsa in Dachau concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  20. Songs recorded in Henonville DP camp

    Spool 06. 22 min. Psychologist David Boder recorded interviews in displaced persons camps in France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy in 1946. His wire spool recordings were deposited at the Library of Congress and later transferred to tape in 1995. USHMM located this lost recording with songs of Henonville in 2017. "Songs of Henonville" was recorded in Henonville, France on September 13, 1946. Songs include: 1. "Dos yidishe lid" (The Jewish Song) by Anshel Schorr and Sholom Secunda (USA, 1926). Performed in Yiddish as "Golus-lid" (Exile Song) by Dzhuel [Joel] Prizant. 2. "Aheym" (Homeward). ...