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• Slideshow of Images

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Overview by Theme

• 1933-1939
• Dictatorship under the Third Reich
• Early Stages of Persecution
• Kristallnacht
• American Response
• 1939-1945
• Life in the Ghetto
• Mobile Killing Units (Einsatzgruppen)
• Concentration Camps
• Rescue
• Resistance
• Death Marches
• Liberation
• Postwar
• Postwar Trials
• Maps

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Dictatorship under the Third Reich
Adolf Hitler salutes spectators upon his arrival
at the Zeppelinfeld in Nuremberg for the
Reichsparteitag (Reich Party Day) ceremonies.
September 10-16, 1935. Nuremberg, Germany.
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Early Stages of Persecution
A dog lies on a park bench which is marked Nur
fur Arier (Only for Aryans). March 1938.
Vienna, Austria
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Early Stages of Persecution
Austrian Nazis and local residents look on as
Jews are forced to get on their hands and knees
and scrub the pavement. March 1938-April 1938.
Vienna, Austria Source National Archives and
Records Administration
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Early Stages of Persecution
Jewish girls sheltered at the Centre de
Sainte-Mande, childrens home on rue Granville in
Paris. Only a few escaped deportation to
Auschwitz. June 1943. Paris, France
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Kristallnacht
Local residents view the burning of the
ceremonial hall at the Jewish cemetery in
Graz. November 1938. Graz, Austria Source
Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen
Widerstandes
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Kristallnacht
Germans pass by the broken shop window of a
Jewish-owned business that was destroyed during
Kristallnacht. November 10, 1938. Berlin,
Germany Source National Archives and Records
Administration
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American Response
A view of the SS St. Louis surrounded by smaller
vessels in the port of Hamburg. June 1939
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American Response
Jewish refugees aboard the SS St. Louis attempt
to communicate with friends and relatives in
Cuba, who were permitted to approach the docked
vessel in small boats. June 3, 1939. Havana,
Cuba Source National Archives and Records
Administration
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Life in the Ghetto
Two children beg for food on the streets of the
Warsaw ghetto. September 19, 1941. Warsaw, Poland
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Life in the Ghetto
Jews in the Warsaw ghetto awaiting their turn in
the soup kitchen. 1941, Warsaw, Poland. Source
Zydowski Instytut Historyczny Instytut
Naukowo-Badawczy
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Mobile Killing Units (Einsatzgruppen)
Jewish men, women, and children await execution
in a ravine. October 14, 1942. Ukraine Source
Instytut Pamieci Narodowej
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Concentration Camps
Prisoners standing during a roll call. Each
wears a striped hat and uniform bearing colored,
triangular badges and identification
numbers. 1938-1941. Buchenwald, Germany
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Concentration Camps
A transport of Jews from Subcarpathian Rus is
taken off the trains and assembled on the ramp at
Auschwitz-Birkenau. May 1944. Auschwitz,
Poland Source Yad Vashem
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Rescue
Danish fishermen (foreground) ferry a boatload of
fugitives across a narrow sound to neutral
Sweden. Within just a few weeks of the first
arrests by the Germans in 1943, some 7,000 Danish
Jews managed to make their way to the safety of
fishing boats that plied this route. Sweden, 1943
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Resistance
SS troops guard members of the Jewish resistance
captured during the suppression of the Warsaw
ghetto uprising. April 19, 1943-May 16, 1943.
Warsaw, Poland Source National Archives and
Records Administration
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Death Marches
A view of concentration camp prisoners marching
through a village while on a death march from
Dachau to Wolfratshausen. The photo was taken
through the upstairs window of a private home
along the death march route. April 1945. Dachau,
Germany Source KZ Gedenkstaette Dachau
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Liberation
American soldiers entering Buchenwald upon
liberation of the camp. April 11, 1945.
Buchenwald, Germany
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Liberation
Mauthausen survivors cheer the soldiers of the
Eleventh Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army
one day after their actual liberation. May 6,
1945. Mauthausen, Austria Source National
Archives and Records Administration
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Liberation
An emaciated survivor drinking from a metal bowl
in front of a barracks in Buchenwald. April 11,
1945-June 1945 Source National Archives and
Records Administration
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Postwar Trials
The defendants in the dock listen to proceedings
at the International Military Tribunal trial of
war criminals at Nuremberg. November 10,
1945-October 1, 1946. Nuremberg, Germany
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