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American Eyewitnesses to War: POWs and Liberators

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Artifacts donated to the Museum by Anthony Acevedo, a medic with the US Army’s 70th Infantry Division during World War II. US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Artifacts donated to the Museum by Anthony Acevedo, a medic with the US Army’s 70th Infantry Division during World War II. US Holocaust Memorial Museum

World War II veteran Anthony (Tony) Acevedo was among thousands of Americans captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. Although Tony and his fellow POWs who survived never publicly disclosed what they endured, he donated his wartime diary to the Museum to preserve the truth of what happened. Museum curators will share the details of this unusual addition to the Museum’s collection.​

Museum Speakers
Dr. Daniel Greene, Guest Curator, Americans and the Holocaust exhibition, and Adjunct Professor of History, Northwestern University
Kyra Schuster, Museum Curator

Event Chairs
Rabbi Debra Nesselson and Garry Cohen

 

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