Antisemitic poster equating Jews with communism. United States, 1939. Photograph »

In a radio broadcast, aviation hero 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. Photograph »

Antisemitic propaganda. United States, date uncertain. Photograph »

Antisemitic isolationist publication. United States, date uncertain. Photograph »

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. Photograph »

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. Photograph »

Four days after the outbreak of World War II, Secretary of State Cordell Hull signs the Neutrality Law (first signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt) at the State Department. Washington, DC, United States, September 5, 1939. Photograph »

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. Photograph »

Jan Karski (standing), underground courier for the Polish government-in-exile who 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. Photograph »

Poster (issued by the Jewish War Veterans of the United States) calling for a boycott of German goods. New York, United States, between 1937 and 1939. Photograph »

Breckinridge Long (1881–1958), US assistant secretary of state with jurisdiction over immigration and refugee issues during the Holocaust. Washington, DC, United States, August 1943. Photograph »