A chilling estate sale, today

[LeftInTX]

111. My family was expelled from Turkey. But, that was in 1915.

The entire Armenian population was expelled. There were no driver's licenses or ID's involved. My great grandmother managed to take a cup. The Turks destroyed and pillaged our family's personal possessions. They destroyed the hand scribed bible. They stole the cattle. Armenians were allowed to take one cow each or something, but that was all. But this was 110 years ago and they did it to an entire population of people who did not have driver's licenses or personal ID's. There was no such thing! No family photos because there were no cameras!

Eventually the western press would photograph the Armenians.

However, I really don't get that type of vibe from the scenario in the OP......

Jews were living in Europe prior to WWII. Europe was much more sophisticated than Pre WWI Turkey, so I assume Jews would have taken their ID's with them if they had them if they voluntarily left. Seriously, would they leave their ID's behind for the Nazis to find? I would think they would try to erase as much of their ID's as possible before leaving. (Of course, not always possible. However, most would grab their ID's and possibly a few photographs)

When Anne Frank was arrested, the neighbor scooped up her diary before the Nazis could come back and take the rest of the family's possessions. I assume the Frank family had some sort of identifying documents on them when they were arrested or were ordered to bring them when they were arrested. I'm sure the Germans confiscated their ID's and important documents when they were arrested. (Don't get me started on German WWI record keeping and the Turks..it's a rabbit hole. But the Germans were known for record keeping. I think it may have made prosecuting them easier after WWII)

The Nazis would come back to pillage the rest of the Frank's possessions, but at the time of the arrest, I'm sure a school girl's notebook would not be something that would interest them.

Biden is still president. We have cell phones these days. If there was mass deportation and pillaging of Americans living in neighborhoods someone would catch it on their phone.

The manuscript, written on loose sheets of paper, was found strewn on the floor of the hiding place by Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl after the family's arrest,[22] but before their rooms were ransacked by a special department of the Amsterdam office of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD, Nazi intelligence agency) for which many Dutch collaborators worked.[23] The papers were given to Otto Frank after the war, when Anne's death was confirmed in July 1945 by sisters Marianne and Rebekka Brilleslijper, who were with Margot and Anne in Bergen-Belsen.[24]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl

Sorry, this is just a weird rant.......