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1. SS officer Karl Hoecker stands in front of a truck with a double barreled shotgun during a hunting excursion.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 34799
Date:
December 1944 - January 1945
…SS officer Karl Hoecker stands in front of a truck with a double barreled shotgun during a hunting excursion.…
2. Liberation scenes
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Film | Accession Number: 1989.343.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0103 | Film ID: 144
Date:
Event: 1944-1945
Duration:
00:04:31
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… survivor walking, posing next to barbed wire fence. People in uniforms, grabbing potatoes from truck. Inmates offer food to liberators. Woman kisses hands of…
3. Nazi, Mauthausen, Belsen, and Auschwitz war criminals tried
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Film | Accession Number: 2002.541.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3629 | Film ID: 2531
Film Title:
Welt im Film (segments of nos. 43, 27, 26, 137)
Date:
Event: 1945-1947
Duration:
00:08:27
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… search suspects. VS, trucks take prisoners away. World in Film. Issue no. 26 03:34:40 "BELSEN AND NUREMBERG," Germany. Bergen-Belsen trial: 17 September…
4. Persecution of Jews; isolating, labeling, deporting, murdering Jews
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Film | Accession Number: 2002.546.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3716 | Film ID: 2576
Film Title:
Der gelbe Stern [The Yellow Star]
Date:
Event: 1933 - 1945
Production: 1980
Duration:
01:24:15
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…TRUCKS…
5. Jewelry box with a secret compartment used to hide documents belonging to German Jewish prisoners
2019.180.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.180.2 a-b
Date:
creation: after 1944 April-before 1945
… Jews in town being collected into a truck and taken away. She quickly went home to tell her grandfather what the Nazis were doing. He had always helped…
6. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child
2008.319.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.319.2
Date:
manufacture: 1944
use: 1944-before 1947 December
… loaded in the cattle truck when the camp commander felt pity for her two small children and let them get off the truck. They returned to Limoges to hide in…
7. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child
2008.319.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.319.1
Date:
manufacture: 1944
use: 1944-before 1947 December
… relocated them to the Nexon internment camp, from which they were to be deported to Poland. Tonia, Vera, and Marcel were already loaded in the cattle truck…
8. Brown enamel mug used by a Polish Jewish concentration camp prisoner
1996.5.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.1
Date:
issue: after 1943 January-before 1945 February
… his father was placed in another, then loaded onto trucks. Erich’s parents and uncle were likely gassed. While his group waited to take showers, Erich…
9. Yellow, rectangular patch on cloth backing worn by a German Jewish woman in a concentration camp
2016.496.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.2
Date:
use: 1944 December 10-1945 May 08
… left the camp, walking and hitchhiking until they reached Dresden. From there, Irene got a ride on an Army truck to Berlin and snuck into the city…
10. 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…
11. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1996.5.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.2
Date:
issue: 1945 February-1945 March
… his father was placed in another, then loaded onto trucks. Erich’s parents and uncle were likely gassed. While his group waited to take showers, Erich…
12. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1996.5.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.3
Date:
issue: 1945 February-1945 March
… his father was placed in another, then loaded onto trucks. Erich’s parents and uncle were likely gassed. While his group waited to take showers, Erich…
13. Concentration camp uniform coat worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1996.5.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.4
Date:
issue: 1945 February-1945 March
… his father was placed in another, then loaded onto trucks. Erich’s parents and uncle were likely gassed. While his group waited to take showers, Erich…
14. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1996.5.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.5
Date:
issue: 1945 February-1945 March
… his father was placed in another, then loaded onto trucks. Erich’s parents and uncle were likely gassed. While his group waited to take showers, Erich…
15. Black leather mid-calf boots worn by a female Jewish concentration camp prisoner
2002.366.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.366.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1944 December-1945
acquired: 1944 December-1945 January
… rented a truck, and Samuel, Henry, and his father drove through the snow to Tarnów. The trip was very dangerous; none of them had official papers and the…
16. Gisela Zamora papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.385.1
Date:
1945
… second attempt and were arrested in Zagreb and sent back. Their third attempt was successful, and after riding in a covered truck at night, they reached…
17. Philip D. Vock papers
1997.11.13 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1997.11.13
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1975
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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  • Series 1: Philip D. Vock papers 1941-1975, Undated
18. Henri Clogenson collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.388
Date:
1945-2004
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 … alarm went off, the truck that carried it stayed at the camp and we’d have to wait until evening before having anything to eat. Out in the open air…
19. Akta badawczo-dochodzeniowe Głównej Komisji Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce (B.d.)
Document | Accession Number: 2010.11 | RG Number: RG-15.155M
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1964
Alternate Title:
Records of investigation and documentation of the Main Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Poland (B.d)
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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 … away. There was a big yelling and crying of the deported on that occasion. The women were sent by trucks in the unknown direction. Nobody heard of them…
20. Egon Weiss papers
2011.128.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2011.128.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2009
bulk: 1920-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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 …! Representatives from the Jewish community arrived in the evening, we got a hefty meal. Forgotten were the problems of the past. On the 17th two trucks delivered…