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1. 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…
2. 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…
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. 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. 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…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service buttonhole ribbon bar awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.4
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… start his life over in a new place with a new language. In February 1946, Kurt was catching a ride in the back of a truck, when the tailgate gave way and…
13. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1948
issue: after 1914 August 05
… start his life over in a new place with a new language. In February 1946, Kurt was catching a ride in the back of a truck, when the tailgate gave way and…
14. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.3
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… start his life over in a new place with a new language. In February 1946, Kurt was catching a ride in the back of a truck, when the tailgate gave way and…
15. World War I Honor & Iron Crosses buttonhole ribbon bar with Combatant’s swords awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.1
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: after 1934 July 13-1944
… start his life over in a new place with a new language. In February 1946, Kurt was catching a ride in the back of a truck, when the tailgate gave way and…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. 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…
19. Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers
2004.331.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.331.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1969
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Orthodox so they would not have to attend Sunday mass. Wiera took a typing course and found clerical work at a Mercedes Benz truck repair shop called…
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 … pretended to be Russian Orthodox so they would not have to attend Sunday mass. Wiera took a typing course and found clerical work at a Mercedes Benz truck…
20. 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