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21. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… then walk down the hill in waist deep snow to the train depot. After a short truck ride, they marched for six days and nights to prisoner of war camp…
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  • Series 1: Anthony Acevedo papers Circa 1935-Circa 2012
    • File 1: Diary 1945
22. Lazowski family papers
2018.274.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.274.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-1953
… saying he was alive. However, Philip and his mother witnessed the Germans beginning to load Jews into trucks and take them away. Philip was reluctant to…
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 … among several hundred Jews forced into trucks by Nazi soldiers. Philip, 12 years old at the time, escaped death that day and managed to reconnect with his…
23. Brust family papers
1992.13.11 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1992.13.11
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1955
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… heard the whispers and rumors and was aware of a growing sense of doom. She knew large trains of people were being sent to camps and witnessed trucks…
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 … heard the whispers and rumors and was aware of a growing sense of doom. She knew large trains of people were being sent to camps and witnessed trucks…
24. Schächter family papers
2000.407.2 Box 1 Folder 23 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2000.407.2
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1998
bulk: 1938-1947
… church where laborers gathered. They were put on a truck for Germany and Janina worked as a farm hand. She constantly needed to stop working to care for 1…
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 …, she and Basha went to a church where laborers gathered. They were put on a truck for Germany and Janina worked as a farm hand. She constantly needed to…
25. Jas̆a Altarac papers
2002.438.1 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2002.438.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1964
… command decided to transfer the Jewish prisoners to Albania. They were divided into groups and each group had to find trucks to take them to different…
26. Selinger family papers
2008.227.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 47
Document | Accession Number: 2008.227.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 1950
… to escape. Seeing trucks arriving to transport the prisoners to concentration camps, Edward and Kay decided to escape through a weak link in the fence…
27. Herman Neudorf papers
1994.83.2 Box 1 Folder 26 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1994.83.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
… Łódź and Hermann saw Jews beaten, loaded on trucks, and taken away. Soon, the Germans interned the Jews in a ghetto. On June 24, 1940, Hermann escaped to…
28. Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.6
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1940
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… students were transported there by truck. Sara and Hirsz also spent time at a Jewish recreation club, Maccabi, which was strongly pro-Zionist, and joined the…
29. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… had papers and spoke German, they beat and arrested him and loaded him into a truck, where twenty friends from the YMCA sat. They were taken to…
30. George Birman papers
1993.41.2 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 1993.41.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2002
… being evacuated to the Kovno ghetto. The transport came and while the guard talked to the truck driver, Hirsch, Abel, and another man approached the fence…
31. Stitching awl with a 1 inch curved needle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.9
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
32. Leather creaser used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.8
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
33. Edge iron shoemaking tool used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.2
Date:
use: approximately 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
34. Dark brown whetstone used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.6
Date:
use: 1928-1980
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
35. Leather creaser with a pointed triangular head used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.19
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
36. Wooden awl haft with chuck and ferrule used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.7
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
37. Military ID tag issued to identify a Jewish volunteer in the British Army
2004.616.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.616.3
Date:
issue: approximately 1939
… picture and Army Post Office address. She and Michael were smuggled out by truck, but arrested at the Austrian border, transported back to Hungary, jailed…
38. Cutting nippers used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.22 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.22
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… leave Poland for Germany. They were transported to Berlin by a Russian truck and driver. At the border of Russian occupied Berlin, the driver told the…
39. Max Amichai Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.307.13
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1989
… empty gasoline truck to unoccupied southern France. On August 9, Albert, Irene, and Max left Amsterdam, with only the clothes they were wearing, for a…
40. Adler family papers
2016.458.1 Book Enclosure 8 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.458.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880 September-2003
…. She moved to Cincinnati where her sister Lisa lived, but died after getting hit by a truck. Paul, who was in Cuba at the time of her death trying to…
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 … States after the war, but only Zsuzsa was able to get a visa. She moved to Cincinnati where her sister Lisa lived, but died after getting hit by a truck…