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  1. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  2. 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.

  3. Pin-back button

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

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  7. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  8. Anti-Roosevelt campaign button

  9. American anti-Japanese "hunting license"

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

  10. Poster stamp

    American propaganda anti-Axis poster stamp

  11. Handkerchief

    White handkerchief that belonged to Eugen Fellner.

  12. Pin-back button

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

  13. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  14. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  15. Pin-back button

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

  16. Teardrop pendant with an engraved inscription

    Teardrop shaped pendant with Hebrew inscriptions on both sides

  17. 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...

  18. 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.

  19. We don't want Eleanor campaign button

  20. 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...