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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. Bulgarian forced labor camp photographs

    Photographs of Jews in a Forced Labor Camp in Bulgaria, 1943

  2. Mandel family papers

    The Mandel family papers include biographical material, restitution files, photographs, and family documents relating to Yehuda Mandel and his family’s experiences pre-war in Latvia and Hungary, their flight from Budapest, immigration to the United States, and their post-war life in America. A large portion of the collection includes materials relating to Yehuda’s Cantorial career including music, education records, programs, newspaper clippings, awards, speeches, and documents relating to various conventions and organizations.

  3. Josef and Ruth Rosenberg papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Josef and Ruth Rosenberg, both of whom were from Poland, interned in the Łódź ghetto, and liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where they met and later married. The collection includes identification papers, immigration documents, restitution claims paperwork, and photographs taken at Bergen-Belsen from 1945-1947 along with some pre-war family photographs. The biographical materials include identification papers and immigration documents that both reflect their status as stateless refugees. The restitution claims ...

  4. Textile with embroidered names

    Burlap patch embroidered with a series of names and the dates 1940-1946.

  5. Third Term - Third Reich campaign button

  6. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  7. Anti-Roosevelt, pro-Willkie 1940 presidential campaign button

    Anti-Roosevelt, pro-Willkie campaign button for the 1940 Presidential Election. Several variations of this button were manufactured at a rapid pace. Some had different background colors, while others had different text size and font styles. The campaign button was used to build awareness, and encourage positive word of mouth for the Republican challenger, Wendell Willkie, while simultaneously discouraging support for the Democratic incumbent, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). FDR was running for an unprecedented third term, which was a major factor the Republicans pressed during the campaign...

  8. Dictators don't debate campaign button

  9. No Third term campaign button with Uncle Sam

  10. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button, "Jap Hunting License" with outline of map of United States, a "Keep Out" sign and a likeness of Uncle Sam, holding a rifle.

  11. Give Roosevelt his rest campaign button

  12. 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.

  13. 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...

  14. Pin-back button

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

  15. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  16. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  17. 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.

  18. No Third Term campaign button

  19. Pin-back button

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

  20. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin