A Rescued Man
There was a young Italian Judaist before WWII.
He was captured by Nazis after a long story to be sent to Auschwitz, a death camp. He was assigned to a special task to clean a gas camber, so that he could survive till the German military collapsed, though it was a long story for him. But Nazi troops tried to kill all the interns who worked like him in death camps to take out dead bodies of victims out of a gas chamber, clean the chamber for new victims, and bury corpses. Nazis tried to erase evidence of their atrocity. But the young Italian Judaist could narrowly mingle into other interns who were being transported to other facilities as Soviet troops and American troops came close to Auschwitz.
While being crammed in a car of a freight train, the young Italian Judiast found a dying man by his side. And, while the train was moving further, the man finally died giving space to others. The young Italian Judaist with others checked pockets of the man now lying on the floor. He found a small wooden cross to take it into his pocket, as the young Judaist thought he would have been taken as a Christian if he had shown it to others on some occasion in future.
The freight train took survivors of Auschwitz finally to some facilities where they could welcome US troops coming in to liberate them all. The first American soldier arrived there by jeep said that he had seen thousands of dead bodies in other camp. So, the young Italian Judaist, his brother, and his elder sister survived though he lost his mother and two younger sisters in the death camp.
I don't know how he used the little wooden cross on any occasion.
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Act 4:18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
Act 4:19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
Act 4:20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Act 4:21 So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.