![Antisemitic poster equating Jews with communism. United States, 1939. [LCID: 89415]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/4ffde1f2-f2eb-4b95-9d23-6acc4f03ac3d.jpg "Antisemitic poster equating Jews with communism. United States, 1939. [LCID: 89415]")
Antisemitic poster equating Jews with communism. The poster calls for the boycotting of Jewish interests. United States, 1939.
Item View![Four days after the outbreak of World War II, Secretary of State Cordell Hull signs the Neutrality Law (first signed by President ... [LCID: 86858]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/3b4d36b5-2b91-431a-82fa-6f59bc1e49f2.jpg "Four days after the outbreak of World War II, Secretary of State Cordell Hull signs the Neutrality Law (first signed by President ... [LCID: 86858]")
Four days after the outbreak of World War II, Secretary of State Cordell Hull signs the Neutrality Proclamation (first signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt) at the State Department. Washington, DC, United States, September 5, 1939.
Item View![Photo taken in Secretary of State Cordell Hull's office on the occasion of the third meeting of the War Refugee Board. [LCID: 85938]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/e9a297a8-9be5-4211-a1c1-cbb5dc4bd42d.jpg "Photo taken in Secretary of State Cordell Hull's office on the occasion of the third meeting of the War Refugee Board. [LCID: 85938]")
Photo taken in Secretary of State Cordell Hull's office on the occasion of the third meeting of the War Refugee Board. Hull is at the left, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., is in the center, and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson is at the right. Washington, DC, United States, March 21, 1944.
Item View![Meeting of the War Refugee Board in the office of Executive Director John Pehle. [LCID: 85939]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/a826c097-cea9-420d-812a-57c8ee5877a1.jpg "Meeting of the War Refugee Board in the office of Executive Director John Pehle. [LCID: 85939]")
Meeting of the War Refugee Board in the office of Executive Director John Pehle. Pictured left to right are Albert Abrahamson, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Josiah Dubois, and Pehle. Washington, DC, United States, March 21, 1944.
Item View![Breckinridge Long (1881–1958). Long was an Assistant Secretary in the US State Department during World War II, from 1940-1944. [LCID: 02859]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/0f75fa3c-6c5c-4a55-a580-7152e889cc08.jpg "Breckinridge Long (1881–1958). Long was an Assistant Secretary in the US State Department during World War II, from 1940-1944. [LCID: 02859]")
Breckinridge Long (1881–1958). Long was an Assistant Secretary in the US State Department during World War II, from 1940-1944. Between 1939 and 1942, Breckinridge Long implemented new State Department policies which prioritized US national security over humanitarian concerns. Photograph taken in Washington, DC, United States, August 1943.
Item View![Jan Karski (standing), underground courier for the Polish government-in-exile who informed the west in the fall of 1942 about Nazi ... [LCID: 90536]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/9e6a498b-ce8b-441d-be8a-1ef2035b1d1a.jpg "Jan Karski (standing), underground courier for the Polish government-in-exile who informed the west in the fall of 1942 about Nazi ... [LCID: 90536]")
Jan Karski (standing), underground courier for the Polish government-in-exile. He informed the west in the fall of 1942 about Nazi atrocities against Jews taking place in Poland. Pictured in his office in Washington, DC, United States, 1944.
Item View![British Jewish leader Sidney Silverman forwarded to American Jewish leader Stephen Wise this copy of a cable originating from Gerhart ... [LCID: 82901]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/223820ad-491d-4a6d-9d2e-c4735ec03f31.jpg "British Jewish leader Sidney Silverman forwarded to American Jewish leader Stephen Wise this copy of a cable originating from Gerhart ... [LCID: 82901]")
British Jewish leader Sidney Silverman forwarded to American Jewish leader Stephen Wise this copy of a cable originating from Gerhart Riegner, World Jewish Congress representative in Geneva. Riegner had sent through their respective governments two cables warning Silverman and Wise of Nazi plans to exterminate European Jewry. The US State Department delayed delivery of the cable from Riegner to Wise, who initially received this version. United States, August 29, 1942.
Item View![Antisemitic isolationist publication. United States, date uncertain. [LCID: 91810]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/276e4010-8d32-4040-8248-e3c5a0fffa93.jpg "Antisemitic isolationist publication. United States, date uncertain. [LCID: 91810]")
An antisemitic isolationist publication in the United States, ca. 1938–41. It blames Jews and Jewish interests for the war and advocates the boycott of Jewish businesses.
Item View![Antisemitic propaganda. United States, date uncertain. [LCID: 91811]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/fd95d4ee-0700-4fa7-89be-313b5720fc86.jpg "Antisemitic propaganda. United States, date uncertain. [LCID: 91811]")
Antisemitic propaganda in the United States that presents President Franklin D. Roosevelt's declaration of a state of unlimited national emergency as the product of an international Jewish conspiracy to save world Jewry and to bring destruction upon America. United States, ca. 1938–41.
Among the antisemitic declarations on the caricature are:
"Jews Are The Cause of High Taxes - Slavery - Starvation and Death ---"
"How long will the American people continue to tolerate this hysteric, desperate JEWISH PLOT, with their phoney EMERGENCIES?"
"BREAK THE JEW CONTROL BEFORE OUR COUNTRY IS TOTALLY DESTROYED."
Item View![In a radio broadcast, aviation hero and noted isolationist Charles Lindbergh asserts that the United States is not in danger of invasion ... [LCID: 86885]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/fffacec7-c2c1-4755-bf56-8123d2473194.jpg "In a radio broadcast, aviation hero and noted isolationist Charles Lindbergh asserts that the United States is not in danger of invasion ... [LCID: 86885]")
In a radio broadcast, aviator and noted isolationist Charles Lindbergh asserts that the United States is not in danger of invasion and that "meddling" in foreign affairs is a peril. Washington, DC, United States, May 20, 1940.
Item View![Poster (issued by the Jewish War Veterans of the United States) calling for a boycott of German goods. [LCID: 89404]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/bbf2c059-29d5-455e-8a83-879178a38566.jpg "Poster (issued by the Jewish War Veterans of the United States) calling for a boycott of German goods. [LCID: 89404]")
Poster calling for a boycott of German goods. Issued by the Jewish War Veterans of the United States. New York, United States, between 1937 and 1939.
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