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1. Sobibor perpetrator collection
Document | Accession Number: 2020.8.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1970
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  • Series 1: Photographic materials Approximate 1870-Approximate 1944, 1934-1944 Bulk
    • File 9: Sobibor (62 photos) (2 folders) 1942-1943
      • Pages: 1
2. Hauer and Honig families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.439.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1976
bulk: 1930-1947
… a big presence of U.S. soldiers in Shanghai. Gunter was employed with the U.S. Port Command, working with GMC trucks and parts. Gunter and Hella…
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 … employed with the U.S. Port Command, working with GMC trucks and parts. Gunter and Hella married on 2 March 1947. They immigrated to the United States in…
3. Edith Stein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.347.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1985
undated: 
… delivery truck. The family remained in hiding for approximately two years. They reunited with her uncle’s family in Nice and on 13 November 1942 they fled to…
4. Schatz and Bonder families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.429.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1991
bulk: 1940-1957
…), first driving supply trucks and setting up food commissaries. Later Henry worked as a chief interviewer in the displaced persons division to establish…
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 … Administration), first driving supply trucks and setting up food commissaries. Later Henry worked as a chief interviewer in the displaced persons division to…
5. 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…
6. Activities in France; Kershner speech; children sing
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Film | Accession Number: 2017.676.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0166 | Film ID: 4243
Film Title:
American Friends Service Committee
Date:
Event: 1940-1945
Duration:
00:17:19
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… buildings, with billowing black smoke. Various collapsed buildings. Civilians leave the city en masse, loaded into trucks or walking. People are carried on…
7. Josef Baur papers
2017.675.1 Box 3 Folder 23 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.675.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1954
… trucks and trains for the battalion’s departure in Würzburg, Germany, their accommodations in Frödau, Poland, soldiers playing soccer, and their encamped…
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 … Eastern Front in 1941 until early 1942 when they were recalled from the frontlines. The candid photographs include images of soldiers loading trucks and…
8. Zonligt family papers
2017.669.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 58
Document | Accession Number: 2017.669.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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 … article about it. In the afternoon we arrived at Kearnesville, where we went by truck to the camp, close to the sea, from there in the night by truck to the…
9. Illustrated postcard with finger holes owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.8
Date:
emigration: 1939-1949
… 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…
10. Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.7
Date:
manufacture: 1870-1948
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…
11. 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…
12. Castle-shaped Havdalah spice box (besamim) owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.5
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1850-approximately 1935
emigration: 1939-1949
… 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…
13. Enameled porcelain vase with a floral pattern owned by Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1925-approximately 1945
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…
14. Nachlass Konsul Carl Lutz (1895-1975)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.95.1 | RG Number: RG-58.049
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1988
Alternate Title:
Carl Lutz papers
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 … Kairo 74. Alabastersphinx in Memphis 75. Getreide-Drescharbeiten 76. Wäscherin 77. Container von International Motor Truck , Kamelkarawane…
15. Mandel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.581.12
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2001
undated: 
… Mandel were among a group of Hungarian Jews whom Adolf Eichmann offered to trade for trucks and other goods in negotiations with Rezsö Kasztner, a member…
16. Activities of German soldiers
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Film | Accession Number: 2016.571.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1888 | Film ID: 4220
Film Title:
World War Two footage -- Sawyer -- home movies
Film Collection Title:
Donald Sawyer Collection
Date:
Event: 1940s
Duration:
00:10:10
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… to move a vehicle over them. It gets stuck. A train of covered wagons pulled by horses moves by. Soldiers ride on horseback. Trucks drive across the…
17. Nazi officials tour Polish countryside
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Film | Accession Number: 2016.519 | RG Number: RG-60.1419 | Film ID: 2980
Date:
Event: 1940-1941?
Duration:
00:02:48
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…German military truck with diamond insignia on city street. License plate reads: WH 701975. Women in luxurious coats and Nazi officials tour Poland…
18. Poland; Warsaw ghetto
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Film | Accession Number: 2016.518 | RG Number: RG-60.5644 | Film ID: 4365
Date:
Event: 1940-1941
Duration:
01:16:00
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… heating purposes? 10:52:40 Winter, trucks, cars, everyday life in the stage, Exercises of the soldiers in the snow, hay carts, carabiners set up, horses. 10…
19. Deutsches Jungvolk; KdF parade; Rothkirch in Vienna; Czech border; Refugees; Invasion of Poland
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Film | Accession Number: 2016.518 | RG Number: RG-60.5252 | Film ID: 4365
Film Title:
HJ in Berlin
Date:
Event: 1938-1940
Duration:
01:21:00
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…. Truck, civilians in the back, drives over border. Text: "Zwei Vettern". Rothkirch in conversation with Wehrmacht soldiers. Text: "Beachtliche Betonbunker…
20. Zyga Butler papers
2016.507.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.507.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1979
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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  • Series 1: Zyga Butler papers 1939-1979
    • File 4: Diary 1943-1944
21. Irene and Henry Frank papers
2016.496.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.496.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1992
… 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…
22. Fröhlich and Judas families papers
2016.473.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.473.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1989
undated: 
… of Austria by Germany in 1938, the Fröhlich family, after witnessing one of Ignatz's brothers being arrested and placed on a truck, decided to leave…
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 … truck, decided to leave Austria immediately. The family travelled by train to the west, and when they determined they were likely in Switzerland, they…
23. 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…
24. Personal case files from the Australian Jewish Welfare Society, Sydney
Document | Accession Number: 2016.406.1 | RG Number: RG-69.012
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
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 … Co-Ord B 2 August 1961 1 Bresler Jacob aka Jakob 7 March 1956 3 Caacun Mardochee aka Marc Married 27 September 1925 Moroccan Driver, truck cargo all…
25. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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  • Series 5: Writings 1939-2014
    • File 2: Diary and algebra notebook, Joseph Stripounsky 1940, (in a book enclosure)
      • Pages: 3, 9
    • File 3: Diary, Joseph Stripounsky 1941
26. Herta Griffel Baitch papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.112.12
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2019
…’s grocery store was confiscated and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor…
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 … Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor camp and brought them home at…
27. Plastic doll with a burgundy dress brought with a young Austrian Jewish refugee
2016.112.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.10
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
…’s grocery store was confiscated and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor…
28. Embroidered dress made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.9
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
…’s grocery store was confiscated and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor…
29. Large suitcase with a broken handle used by a young Austrian Jewish refugee during emigration
2016.112.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.8
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
…’s grocery store was confiscated and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor…
30. Embroidered apron made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.6
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
…’s grocery store was confiscated and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor…
31. Embroidered blouse made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.5
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
…’s grocery store was confiscated and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor…
32. Embroidered nightgown made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.4
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
…’s grocery store was confiscated and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor…
33. Nightgown with floral embroidery made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before emigration
2016.112.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.3
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
…’s grocery store was confiscated and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor…
34. Checkered dress with heart patches made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.2 back
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.2
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
…’s grocery store was confiscated and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor…
35. Ada Abrahamer papers
2015.442.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.442.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1989
bulk: 1941-1948
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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  • Series 1: Diary and other papers 1944-Approximate 1989
    • File 2: Diary 1944-March 1946
36. Rachel Greene Rottersman papers
2015.110.1 Image 6 Folder 17 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2015.110.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2015
bulk: 1944-1949
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 … 1945-1948 5.6 Sports and swimming, approximately 1945-1948 5.7 Trucks and trains, approximately 1945-1948 5.8 Miscellaneous, approximately 1945-1948 5…
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37. Zbigniew Antonii Piotrowski papers
2014.469.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2014.469.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1983
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 …, Jakubina Skombska, a woman working on a Red Cross truck that arrived to distribute winter clothing, offered to hide Zbigniew in Trzebinia, so he escaped and…
38. Loewenstein family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.386.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1946
…-made grenades on an open truck filled with German soldiers thereby disrupting the convoy. The partisans then opened machine gun fire on the Germans…
39. Danielle and David Snegg papers
2014.230.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.230.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1990
bulk: circa 1920-1949
…, but was arrested and interned in the La Lande-à-Monts transit camp. David was later taken by truck to the city of Angers and on July 10, 1942, he was…
40. Bruno and Jetka (Jessie) Korn papers
2013.456.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 2013.456.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1972
bulk: 1939-1946
… German flag where he was given thirty lashes. The detainees were then put on trucks and taken outside the city to work construction on a future…
41. Henry Dressler papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.379.11
Date:
inclusive: 1915-2009
undated: 
… and their passports were invalidated. They were taken to the railway station in open trucks to shame them publicly and deported to Poland along with…
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 … police headquarters and their passports were invalidated. They were taken to the railway station in open trucks to shame them publicly and deported to…
42. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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 … entrusting it to the post: Szvas He therefore set off in a truck on February 11 with 40 others. After three adventurous days on the road, via Bamberg…
43. Maria Madi diaries
2013.264.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.264.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1967
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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  • File 3: Diaries October 14, 1943-January 23, 1944, January 23, 1944-March 31, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 4: Diaries March 31, 1944-May 25, 1944, May 25, 1944-July 3, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 5: Diaries July 3, 1944-August 19, 1944, August 20, 1944-September 13, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 6: Diaries September 13, 1944-October 8, 1944, October 9, 1944-November 10, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 7: Diaries November 11, 1944-January 11, 1945, January 11, 1945-March 11, 1945, includes loose material from diaries
  • File 8: Diaries March 11, 1945-June 20, 1945, June 25, 1945-November 5, 1945, Includes loose material from diaries
44. Zbiór dokumentów dotyczących hitlerowskiego więzienia na Zamku Lubelskim (Sygn. XVI)
Document | Accession Number: 2013.245 | RG Number: RG-15.274M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
Alternate Title:
Collection of documents concerning Nazi Prison in the Castle of Lublin
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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 … starvation, many were killed in mass executions or killed in a specially adapted truck that functioned as a gas chamber, and a significant number were sent to…
45. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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 … technical college and found work in the machine and truck repair department of a factory in Manchester. He hoped to eventually to become an engineer and felt…
46. Selected records of the Holocaust collection: Postwar testimonies and Jewish Social Mutual files (RG VII-123)
Document | Accession Number: 2012.217 | RG Number: RG-68.151M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1945
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 … 2 days, then sent on trucks to the MUNKACS ghetto. [Piri Kirschenbaum] shaved her religious father's beard so the Hungarians would not do it and abuse…
47. German supplies and relief work during and after the campaign in France
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Film | Accession Number: 2012.141.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1357 | Film ID: 2948
Film Title:
Die Deutsche Wochenschau
Date:
Event: 1940 July
Censor: 1940 July 10
Duration:
00:04:52
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… newspapers predicted would be halted by fuel shortage. Fuel drums are loaded onto trucks in long line, unloaded from Junker planes and transported by Deutsche…
48. Akten der Erzbischoeflichen Hilfsstelle fuer nichtarische Katholiken
Document | Accession Number: 2012.100 | RG Number: RG-17.042
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1970
Alternate Title:
Records of the Archbishopric Help Agency for Non-Aryan Catholics
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 … nichtarische Katholiken Bestandsverzeichnis Kassette Faszikel 1 , Betreff 1 i Aglaia Truck (Sommer 1942 bis Sommer 1945) Korrespondenz 1948 mit Weihbischof Dr…
49. French National Railway (SNCF) records
Document | Accession Number: 2012.4 | RG Number: RG-43.149
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
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 … électriques et de 12 trucks électriques lestés. 1945‐1946 0505LM0028/001 Construction de 20 locomotives diesel électriques à marchandises pour la Ceinture…
50. Einzelbestand Franz Zürni (1912-)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.219 | RG Number: RG-58.015
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1999
Alternate Title:
Franz Zürni papers
… Swiss compulsory military service (“Aktivdienst”). In the aftermath of World War II, Zürni delivered care shipments by truck on behalf of the…