Timeline of Events
- 1942
- January 16
- January 20
- March 1
- March 21
- May 27
- June 9
- June 28
- July 15
- July 23
- August 25
- September 5
- October 26
- December 17
- 1943
- February 1
- February 2
- March 13
- April 19
- August 23
- September 20
- October 14
- October 19
- November 3
- December 28
- 1944
- January 16
- January 22
- March 19
- May 15
- May 15
- June 6
- June 18
- July 9
- July 11
- July 20
- July 23
- August 1
- August 2
- August 9
- October 7
- November 23
- November 25
- December 11
- 1945
- January 17
- January 27
- February 4
- February 13
- February 13
- March 7
- April 2
- April 4
- April 11
- April 11
- April 11
- April 12
- April 13
- April 15
- April 17
- April 20
- April 23
- April 25
- April 27
- April 29
- April 30
- April 30
- May 4
- May 4
- May 5
- May 7
- June 4
- August 15
- September 2
- November 20
- November 21
- November 29
- December 1
- December 11
- December 22
US Army Medic POW Diary Entry
April 2, 1945
In a diary entry for this day in 1945, Anthony Acevedo writes: "Two more of our men died today. Plus one last night makes three. Plus sixteen makes nineteen. Deaths increasing in great number..."
Acevedo, a medic with the US Army's 70th Infantry Division during World War II, was captured by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge and became a prisoner of war. He and several hundred fellow soldiers were transferred to Berga am Elster, a section of Buchenwald concentration camp. Acevedo was charged with caring for his fellow prisoners and recorded in a small diary the names and numbers of those who died to ensure their sacrifice would be remembered.
On October 13, 2010, Anthony Acevedo donated personal materials to the United States Holocaust Museum's permanent collection.
Page from diary kept by medic Anthony Acevedo while he was a prisoner of war. —US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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