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May 22, 2023 · The Holocaust in a few pictures, 1939-1945. It began with a simple boycott of Jewish shops and ended in the gas chambers at Auschwitz as Nazi Germany attempted to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe. In January 1933, after a bitter ten-year political struggle, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.
- A survivor stokes smoldering human remains in a crematorium oven that is still lit. Dachau, Germany, April 29-May 1, 1945.
- View of a section of the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp as seen through the barbed-wire fence. Dachau, Germany, May 1945.
- Corpses lie in one of the open railcars of the Dachau death train. The Dachau death train consisted of nearly forty cars containing the bodies of between two and three thousand prisoners transported to Dachau in the last days of the war.
- While on a tour of the newly liberated concentration camp, General Dwight Eisenhower and other high-ranking US Army officers view the bodies of prisoners who were killed during the evacuation of Ohrdruf.
Nov 10, 2022 · Some 30,000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps. Now, a Holocaust memorial centre has released a collection of photos of the November pogrom of 1938 - or Kristallnacht, the Night of...
View of a section of the barbed-wire fence and barracks at Auschwitz at the time of the liberation of the camp. Auschwitz, Poland, January 1945. On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army entered Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz and liberated more than six thousand prisoners, most of whom were ill and dying. Item View.
Jan 27, 2023 · Holocaust survivors wearing striped scarves attend a ceremony during 78th Anniversary Of Auschwitz - Birkenau Liberation and Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Nov 10, 2022 · The chilling photos of the 1938 Nazi pogrom gained new attention on Wednesday, the 84th anniversary of what is known as the night of broken glass, or Kristallnacht, the organized and...
Jan 27, 2020 · Centropa made copies of family photos, including more than 3,000 of relatives murdered by the Nazis. Hundreds of them died at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Some of the photos are presented here...
