Tony Acevedo was a WWII U.S. Army medic who was captured by the Nazis and kept a journal of his experiences at Berga, a slave labor sub-camp of Buchenwald. On October 13, 2010, now 86, he appeared at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, to donate his journal to the museum's collection. His is the first journal by an American citizen to be included at the Museum, and he is the first Mexican-American to register with the museum as a holocaust survivor.
See: "'You don't forget': Medic's Holocaust diary tells story of hell".
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Almost buried in the story is the fact that Tony was the child of illegal Mexican immigrants, and so would have been labeled with the derogatory name "anchor baby" by today's right-wingers. His parents were deported when he was 13, but when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor 4 years later, Tony returned from Mexico to the land of his birth, to serve in the U.S. Army. He steadfastly served as a medic, even under the horrific conditions of a Nazi death camp. He further served after the war as a champion of the memories of those lost at Berga, fighting for recognition of what happened there in the face of U.S. Government secrecy and indifference.
Tony Acevedo, U.S. Army Medic, patriot, holocaust survivor, and "anchor baby". We have been lucky to have him; in some ways, luckier than we deserve.