Cartoon with Tanks and Jewish Heroes

Description:

Cartoon depicting Hitler cringing before a company of tanks labeled "American Jews," "Soviet Jews," "Canada Jews" "English Jews," and "Palestinian Jews". The tops of the tanks have varied Jewish heroes: Bar Kokhba, Yehuda Maccabi, Haym Solomon, Baruch Spinoza and Hirsh Lekert. Cartoon is signed "Gropper". The drawing is part of the IWO/JPFO's war effort campaign to buy Jewishly named tanks for the Soviet Union to support the appeal made by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee of the USSR (JAFC).

Date:

1942

Creator:

Gropper, William, 1897-1977

File Name:

5276b45af09_07

Identifier:

International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276, Box 45a, Folder 9

Repository:

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University