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

  1. Leaflet

    Leaflet, "Do You Want Hitlerism in America?. American League Against War and Fascism; 1936.

  2. Photograph of James Ford and Earl Browder

    Contains a photograph of James Ford and Earl Browder shaking hands, dated 1940. Browder was the Communist Party nominee for President of the United States in 1940, and Ford was his running mate.

  3. Earl Browder and James Ford 1940 campaign button

    1940 election campaign button with images of Earl Browder and James Ford and the words "For a Free, Happy Prosperous America/Browder for President Ford for Vice Pres./Vote Communist."

  4. Wiera Pupko collection

    Documentation, photographs, albums, and correspondence documenting the experiences of Wiera Pupko and her attempts to leave Europe, and ultimately come from Cuba to the United States.

  5. Mossad LeAliyah collection

    Four photo albums (approximately 540 photographs) and a typewritten report document the activity of a representative of the "Mossad LeAliya" (Institute for Immigration) in Iran, Turkey, and Israel in the late 1940s to early 1950s in preparation for bringing Jews to Israel. The information documents an investigative journey from Tehran, Iran, to Haifa, Israel. Includes printed reports: "The Suez Canal of the revolution: outlines of the history of the Communist Movement in Iran,” dated 7.8.1951 (Hebrew); Prisoners of Zion in Eastern European countries, from the establishment of the state to t...

  6. Pin

    Pin, “Defend / America / First”

  7. Search Bureau For Missing Persons Album

    Lot 139. Album of personnel. Search bureau for missing persons (May 1946) Search Bureau For Missing Persons, album containing fifty-three original snapshot photographs, each captioned with name and departmental office. Compiled by the Jewish Brigade personnel attached to the Bureau. Dedicated to Col. J.R. Bowring, founder of the Bureau. ff. 24. Original printed stiff wrappers.

  8. Pin

    Pin, “America first last & always / Home Mission Board / N.B.C. Inc. / Cleveland 1941” with image of soldier in front of American flag; from “T. Theo. Lovelace / 4834 Vincennes Ave. / Chicago”

  9. David Friedmann research materials

    Contains research materials relating to the artwork of David Friedmann

  10. Ralph C. Baas photograph collection

    Contains eight photographs, many with English descriptions on the verso, of the Ohrdruf concentration camp shortly after liberation. Taken by the donor's father, Ralph C. Baas, a U.S. serviceman who drove a tank destroyer through France, Belgium, and Germany.

  11. Jules Graff collection

    Two copy photographs showing the interior and exterior of the mobile darkroom used by Jules Graff, who was photographer for the 333rd Regiment.

  12. Leaflet

    Leaflet announcing a symposium, "The Church & Synagogue in the Next War."

  13. The Day of Fast, Prayer and Cry for Saving Remnants of the Jewish People from Extermination by the Nazis

    A Hebrew-language broadside (mimeographed manuscript) titled "The Day of Fast, Prayer and Cry for Saving the Remnants of the Jewish People from Extermination by the Nazis". It was issued the 14th of Sivan (June) 1944, by the Chief Rabbinate of Haifa, Palestine (now Haifa, Israel). The broadside details the "prayer and memorial service" conducted at the central synagogue in Hadar Carmel Gilad St. The memorial day's agenda included a mandatory fast for every man and woman above the age of 18 years, sitting in silence on the ground for five minutes, "to mourn the holy and pure… who were cruell...

  14. Miriam and Ruth Renzer papers

    Collection of correspondence, postcards, and photographs, including letters between Ruth Renzer in Palestine and her sister Miriam in England. Ruth lived at the "Ahava" children's home at Kiryat Bialik, near Haifa, and Miriam was sent to England on a Kindertransport.

  15. French Anti-Semitic Illustrated Leaflet Issued by Action Française

    A large, illustrated French leaflet (newspaper-format) issued by the political movement Action Française. One of its sides deals with the 40 French kings (Les 40 rois qui, en mille ans, firent la France) and the other side with the Jews "who in sixty years have ruined France": Adolphe Crémieux, Alfred Naquet, Dreyfus, Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Blum and more – Marxists, communists, Bolsheviks, and others. The illustrations are by the caricaturist Ralph Soupault. Les Mille Juifs, qui, en soixante ans, ont ruiné la France [The Thousand Jews, who in sixty years have ruined France], Paris:...

  16. Emil and Martha Feigenbaum collection

    Two albums related to Emil and Martha Feigenbaum's emigration from Berlin, Germany, and their arrival in the United States. The materials cover the pre-war, war, and post-war periods and include documentation of the efforts to save Emil's parents, Meier and Flora, both of whom perished in the Holocaust.

  17. Liberation photographs and ration book

    Collection of post-liberation photographs showing corpses, graves, crematorium, and survivors at multiple concentration camps. These include an image of the Jewish cemetery in Neustadt, and recurring liberation images from Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, 1945 - 1946. A ration book in Russian from 1941 is also included.

  18. A Journey Through Darkness

    Transcript written by Mimi Markus of interview with Nat Glass entitled "A Journey Through Darkness"

  19. Block of stamps

    Block of stamps, “Keep America / Out of War” above field of crosses with “War Crushes / Democracy” at bottom

  20. Evvy Eisen collection

    Biographies and related documents of the Holocaust survivors photographed by Evvy Eisen for the "Multiply by Six Million: Portraits and Stories of Holocaust Survivors" project.