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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. Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death, watch as trucks loaded with confiscated personal property drive past on their way to the "Kanada" warehouses.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 77383
Date:
May 1944
…Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death, watch as trucks loaded with confiscated personal property drive…
3. A group of elderly Jews from Subcarpathian Rus sit alongside the train on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In time these people will be put on trucks and driven to the gas chamber.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 77318
Date:
May 1944
…A group of elderly Jews from Subcarpathian Rus sit alongside the train on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In time these people will be put on trucks…
4. 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…
5. 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…
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. 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…
9. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Juif, belonging to a Jewish family.
Object | Accession Number: 2014.230.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942 June-1944 August 25
…, 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…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. 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…
14. 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
15. Zentralbauleitung der Waffen-SS und Polizei Auschwitz (Fond 502)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.4 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.03
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
Alternate Title:
Waffen-SS and Police, Central Construction Office in Auschwitz
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 …, listing one light truck for "crematorium in POW camp." Partial (poorly reproduced) map of what seems to be part of Auschwitz camp. Visit by high SS officer…
16. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
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 … that they didn’t have transportation for everyone so those who were able please walk. The old & sick were invited on the trucks. Those able bodied…
17. Brunn and Ornstein family photographs and diary
2004.225.2 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 57
Document | Accession Number: 2004.225.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1950 September
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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 … one room five bunk beds … …. … by truck to L… about 10 k[ms] 7 Mo Pihenés tegnap 5 cm 1 kenyér, reggel bő fekete, 11h borsóleves du 1. borsógulyás vele…
18. 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…
19. Jews from Subcarpathian Rus await selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the foreground prisoners from the Kanada commando stand near a group of SS men.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 77407
Date:
1944 May 17
… group of SS men. Among those pictured is Hans Schorr (the prisoner dressed in a striped uniform standing behind the truck) and Gyorgi Havas in the…
20. An accordionist leads a sing-along for SS officers at their retreat at Solahuette outside Auschwitz.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 34739
Date:
1944 July 14 - 1944 July 17
… Thumann, and Walter Schmidetzki. Hermann Buch is in the center. Konrad Wiegand, head of the Fahrbereitschaft (car and truck pool) is in the middle…