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1. Sobibor perpetrator collection
Document | Accession Number: 2020.8.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1970
2. Wolf and Zofia Paszko Białystok photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2019.609.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1956
… worked in Kant as a truck driver. He met and married fellow refugee Zofia Właźnik in 1941. They survived the duration of the war in Kant. The couple had…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. Set of seven lobby cards for the film “Ostatni Etap” (1948)
2018.590.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.154
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1948 March 28
distribution: approximately 1961 January
… back of a truck. Beneath the photograph, in the bottom right corner of the card, are additional production and distribution credits, printed in red and…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. Germans awaiting deportation from Horovice; Soviet soldiers arrive in town; funeral procession
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Film | Accession Number: 2016.567 | RG Number: RG-60.1899 | Film ID: 4200
Film Title:
Hořovice na konci 2. sv.v.
Date:
Event: May 1945 to 1969
Duration:
00:09:31
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… with a group of Germans awaiting deportation. German troops leave. Trucks. Soldiers walk along a road, carrying gear. A member of the Revolutionary Guard…
12. 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
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
  • Series 1: Zyga Butler papers 1939-1979
    • File 4: Diary 1943-1944
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. 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…
16. 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…
17. 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
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
  • 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
18. 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…
19. 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
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
  • Series 1: Diary and other papers 1944-Approximate 1989
    • File 2: Diary 1944-March 1946
20. 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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21. 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…
22. 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…
23. 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…
24. 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…
25. 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…
26. 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
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
  • 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
27. 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…
28. 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…
29. 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…
30. Sydney Goodman papers
2011.148.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2011.148.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-2005
bulk: 1944-1999
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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 … Cross truck pulled up loaded with boxes. Our 1st sight of a Red Cross Box – The boxes were divided between the cars, 1 box going to 6 men – not too much…
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  • Series 1: Diary 1944-1945, Undated
    • File 1: Diary (2 folders) 1944-1945
31. 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…
32. 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
33. 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…
34. Samuel and Franka Baral papers
2008.117.4 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2008.117.4
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1966
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…. The family was smuggled out in a truck with a false bottom and abandoned in the forest. Franka decided they should separate and walk to Slovakia. She…
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 … the children fled to Hungary. The family was smuggled out in a truck with a false bottom and abandoned in the forest. Franka decided they should…
35. Ruth Miller papers
2006.473.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 109
Document | Accession Number: 2006.473.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1893-2003
… transported by truck and forced into a small, crowded space with other Jews. The SS members randomly whipped people and shot into the crowd. Ruth had no access…
36. Sam Kornhauser papers
2005.538.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2005.538.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1998
… truck with a secret compartment, Stephen helped Amalia and several of her relatives, including her sisters Sophie and Rose, Rose’s husband and son, her…
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 … was confined to the Bochnia ghetto in 1941, and Amalia and Stephen were married in 1942. Using a truck with a secret compartment, Stephen helped Amalia…
37. Allen A. Cramer collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.389
Date:
1945-2005
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 … in the back of an Army truck on the way to some road construction site. The next thing I knew I was down in a deep trench, a shovel in hand, and I was…
38. 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…
39. Case files from the Australian Jewish Welfare and Relief Society
Document | Accession Number: 2005.356 | RG Number: RG-69.004M
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1954
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 …/16/1903 German Truck I Car Hire Austria 2/10/1939 2/12/1939 Aorangi Sydney 5379 3 Halpern Beno Krakow/P M 4/3/1901 Polish G H Wolf Hatter Poland 11/13…
40. Selected records from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC) Archives, Jerusalem
Document | Accession Number: 2005.98 | RG Number: RG-68.066M
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1966
bulk: 1940-1950
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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 … trucks obtained by Felix Kerstin. GI/13B1/C-80.025B 1947-1948 Sweden; "Felix Convoy" (See the previous file) http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference…
41. Selected records from North African colonies
Document | Accession Number: 2005.36 | RG Number: RG-43.062M
Date:
inclusive: 1848-1962
bulk: 1934-1947
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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 … front door of their store -Application to administrators and directors of truck driving companies in Algeria -Application to administrators and…
42. Charles Phillip Sharp collection
2004.664.3 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 73
Document | Accession Number: 2004.664.3
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1993
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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 …. Great confusion ensues. Or a few American type trucks tag on to a US column on the road and who they deploy follow them into positions, quickly shoot up…
43. Brown shoe wax used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.25 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.25
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…
44. Dark red shoe wax used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.24
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…
45. Cobbler's hammer used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.23
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…
46. 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…
47. Straight needle awl with an .875 inch needle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.21
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…
48. Stitching awl with a 1.25 inch needle used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.20
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…
49. 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…
50. Embossing tool with 3 wheel attachments used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.18_a-d front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.18 a-d
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…