Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of an armband, a palm leaf cross, a prayer missal, a diary, a document, and photographs relating to the experiences of Anthony Acevedo while serving as a medic in the United States Army, Company B, 275th regiment, 70th Infantry Division, and as a prisoner of war (POW) in Berga an der Elster slave labor camp in Germany during World War II.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Anthony Acevedo.
Browse 4 Items In This Collection
Small, handmade, palm leaf cross carried by Anthony Acevedo as a medic and POW
Object | Accession Number: 2010.440.2
Armband with red cross worn by Anthony Acevedo in a slave labor camp and signed post-liberation by fellow POWs
Object | Accession Number: 2010.440.3
Catholic, military, missal carried by Anthony Acevedo as a medic and POW
Object | Accession Number: 2010.440.4
use: Marseille (France)
use: Stalag IX B.; Bad Orb (Germany)
use: Berga (Concentration camp); Berga (Thuringia, Germany)
use: 1943-1945 June
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- 2022-07-28 18:26:26
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