Mexican American Army medic Anthony Acevedo attended the wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. Captured and identified as “racially undesirable,” he suffered as a German POW. Yet he kept a diary of the medical details and deaths of fellow prisoners, which he donated to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum so they would not be nameless and forgotten. While the U.S. failed to end WW2 sooner or admit those fleeing Nazi persecution, history shows some courageous Americans spoke out and saved lives. Read about a German Jewish family who tries to escape to the U.S. in the novel One Person’s Loss. Learn more about the book in NOVELS.
Army medic Anthony Acevedo recorded the deaths of fellow POWs in his diary
Berlin, 1937. Jewish newlyweds flee Germany for Brooklyn before the Nazi slaughter begins
