USHMM photo documents, 1933-1945 | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Largerly these photo-documents relate to the Final Solution of the Jewish Question as well as to the Nazi-German atrocities and perpetration in the course of 1933 --1945

-67, USHMM photo documents. Finding Aids

This is a collection of photo-documents duplicated with the permission and copyright clearness of the USHMM.

RG-67.01, USHMM, The public burning of un-German books by members of the SA and university students on the Opernplatz in Berlin. Still from a motion picture

RG-67.02, USHMM, Mug-shot of Leopold Engleitner, a Jehovah's Witness arrested for his religious beliefs

RG-67.03, USHMM, Adolf Hitler greets Neville Chamberlain upon the British Prime Minister's arrival in Munich

RG-67.04, USHMM, German Jewish youth who are members of a hachshara (Zionist collective) at the Westerbork concentration camp, dance the hora

RG-67.05, USHMM, An advertisement for a lecture series given in New York City by Varian Fry

RG-67.06, USHMM, Varian Fry walking along the street in Marseilles

RG-67.07, USHMM, An estimated 100,000 people participate in a march from Madison Square Garden to the Battery to protest the Nazi persecution of German Jews

RG-67.08, Camps Bergen Belsen, USHMM, A survivor sits on a railing with his back to the camera outside hospital barracks no. 2 (for Jews) at the Ebensee concentration camp

RG-67.09, Camps Bergen Belsen, USHMM, A mass grave in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

RG-67.10, Camps Bergen Belsen, USHMM, Women survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp stand and sit behind the fence of the camp

RG-67.11, Camps Bergen Belsen, USHMM, A female survivor and other women lie, covered in blankets, on the floor of a barracks in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation

RG-67.12, Camps Bergen Belsen, USHMM, Evacuating female political prisoners from Bergen-Belsen

RG-67.13, Camps Bergen Belsen, USHMM, An emaciated survivor sits on a stretcher in Bergen-Belsen

RG-67.14, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, Young survivors behind a barbed wire fence in Buchenwald concentration camp. Among those pictured is Abram Zylbersztajn (middle)

RG-67.15, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, Prisoners at roll call in Buchenwald concentration camp

RG-67.16, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, Five handicapped Jewish prisoners, photographed for propaganda purposes, who arrived in Buchenwald after Kristallnacht

RG-67.17, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, Newly arrived Polish prisoners at roll call in Buchenwald concentration camp

RG-67.18, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, Young survivor of Buchenwald poses with a soldier

RG-67.19, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, Prisoners at forced labor on the assembly line of the Gustloff Werke II munitions plant in the Buchenwald concentration camp

RG-67.20, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, Prisoners from the Buchenwald concentration camp at forced labor building the Weimar-Buchenwald railroad line

RG-67.21, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, A survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp displays his tattooed arm

RG-67.22, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, Survivors lie on wooden bunks that are four tiers high in a barracks in the Buchenwald concentration camp

RG-67.23, Camps Chelmno, USHMM, A large group of men is seating on the ground with their hands on their heads in the Chelmno killing center

RG-67.24, Camps Chelmno, USHMM, The belongings of Jews gassed at Chelmno cover the floor of a synagogue in nearby Kolo, where prisoners were kept before they were taken by truck to the killing center

RG-67.25, Camps Dora, USHMM, The corpses of prisoners laid out for mass burial in the Nordhausen concentration camp

RG-67.26, Camps Dora, USHMM, German civilians removing corpses from the Nordhausen concentration camp for burial in mass graves

RG-67.27, Camps Dora, USHMM, American soldiers walk among corpses that are laid out in rows in the Nordhausen concentration camp

RG-67.28, Camps Dora, USHMM, Close-up portrait of an emaciated survivor wearing only the shirt of his uniform [probably in the Nordhausen concentration camp]

RG-67.29, Camps Gurs, USHMM, Four female prisoners stand outside a barracks behind a barbed-wire fence in Ilot L at the Gurs transit camp. This photograph was shot secretly by Alice Resch-Synnestvedt

RG-67.30, Camps Gurs, USHMM, Group portrait of Jewish prisoners in the Gurs transit camp. Samuel Liebermensch is pictured at the center

RG-67.31, Camps Jasenovac, USHMM, Ustasa guards confiscate the possessions of newly arrived prisoners in the Jasenovac concentration camp

RG-67.32, Camps Jasenovac, USHMM, View of the Jasenovac concentration camp

RG-67.33, Camps Jasenovac, USHMM, Ustasa militia execute prisoners near the Jasenovac concentration camp

RG-67.34, Camps Jasenovac, USHMM, Serbs and Gypsies who have been rounded up for deportation are marched to the Jasenovac concentration camp under Ustasa guard

RG-67.35, Camps Jasenovac, USHMM, Serbian prisoners interned in Jasenovac

RG-67.36, Camps Majdanek, USHMM, Prisoners at forced labor at the Majdanek concentration camp

RG-67.37, Camps Majdanek, USHMM, A section of the prisoners' barracks in Majdanek

RG-67.38, Camps Mauthausen, USHMM, Prisoners carry large stones up the stairs of death (Todesstiege) from the Wiener Graben quarry at the Mauthausen concentration camp

RG-67.39, Camps Mauthausen, USHMM, Interior view of a gas chamber the Mauthausen concentration camp. Original text reads This is the gas chamber, note how it looks like a shower room. Camp Mauthausen

RG-67.40, Camps Mauthausen, USHMM, Disabled Polish and Russian survivors stand in front of a tank from the 11th Armored Division, Third U. S. Army, in the Mauthausen concentration camp

RG-67.41, Camps Mauthausen, USHMM, 6,000 naked prisoners are assembled in the courtyard of the Mauthausen concentration camp where they await disinfection

RG-67.42, Camps Mauthausen, USHMM, Heinrich Himmler confers with SS officers while visiting the Mauthausen concentration camp. Heinrich Himmler is pictured on the left

RG-67.43, Camps Mauthausen, USHMM, Prisoners liberated from Mauthausen, many crowded into a wooden bunk, celebrate their liberation by the American 11th Armored Division

RG-67.44, Camps Mauthausen, USHMM, Cheering survivors greet American troops as the first Allied tanks enter the Mauthausen concentration camp

RG-67.45, Camps Sachsenhausen Gross-Rosen, USHMM, The Biesinitzer Grund (Goerlitz) concentration camp, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen, after liberation

RG-67.46, Camps Treblinka, USHMM, Families disembark train

RG-67.47, Camps Treblinka, USHMM, Treblinka building

RG-67.48, Camps Treblinka, USHMM, Jews who have been expelled from the town of Plock are resettled in Chmielnik

RG-67.49, Camps Treblinka, USHMM, Soldier entering into building

RG-67.50, Camps Westerbork, USHMM, A group of Jewish inmates works at a construction site in the Westerbork transit camp. Kurt Majerowicz is pictured in the front

RG-67.51, Camps Westerbork, USHMM, Two Jewish children share a bicycle outside one of the barracks in the Westerbork internment camp. Pictured on the left is Michael Fink

RG-67.52, Camps Westerbork, USHMM, Group portrait of Jewish school children and their teachers, all of whom are wearing Jewish stars, in the Westerbork transit camp.

RG-67.53, USHMM, German civilians from the town of Nordhausen bury the bodies of former prisoners found in the Nordhausen concentration camp in a mass grave

RG-67.54, USHMM, Members of the Ordedienst, the Jewish Police in Westerbork, direct an arriving transport of Dutch Jews into the camp. The policeman in the center is A. Schoenfliess

RG-67.55, USHMM, Department of State letter from the chief of the Visa Division H.K. Travers to Grete Izes, rejecting her application to enter the United States

RG-67.56, USHMM, Jewish refugee children, who are members of the first Kindertransport from Germany, arrive in Harwich, England. The girl with the doll is Helga Kreiner

RG-67.57, USHMM, View of the Gurs transit camp from the camp water tower

RG-67.58, USHMM, Oskar Schindler with his horse on the grounds of the Emalia enamelworks in Krakow-Zablocie

RG-67.59, USHMM, Jewish youth living in the La Guespy children's home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, pose with Juliette Usach

RG-67.60, USHMM, An aerial photograph of the Treblinka area

RG-67.61, USHMM, A view of the Auschwitz II camp showing the barracks of the camp

RG-67.62, USHMM, A view of the Majdanek concentration camp after liberation

RG-67.63, USHMM, Crematorium

RG-67.64, USHMM, Ruins of the Warsaw ghetto

RG-67.65, USHMM, Photograph of young male child

RG-67.66, USHMM, Jewish Prisoner Mug Shots in Auschwitz

RG-67.67, USHMM, A view of the fences that enclosed Majdanek

RG-67.68, USHMM, 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

RG-67.69, USHMM, The first prisoners at Stutthof eat during a break in the construction of the camp

RG-67.70, USHMM, Defendant Otto Schulz sits at the dock during the Dachau war crimes trial

RG-67.71, USHMM, Seated male prisoner with feet shackled

RG-67.72, USHMM, Newly arrived Polish prisoners lined up for registration in Buchenwald concentration camp

RG-67.73, USHMM, Still in their civilian clothes, newly arrived Czech prisoners, among whom is a clergyman, stand at roll call in Buchenwald concentration camp

RG-67.74, USHMM, German citizens saluting Adolf Hitler at the opening of the 11th Olympiad in Berlin

RG-67.75, USHMM, The Jewish obstetrician, Dr. László Halmos, stands behind the examination table in his office on Vodna Street in Kosice

RG-67.76, USHMM, Group of women knitting

RG-67.77, USHMM, Men disembarking from ship

RG-67.78, USHMM, View of the packed courtroom of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Lawyers for the prosecution are at the bottom, the defendants on the left, and judges on the right

RG-67.79, USHMM, U. S. Deputy Chief of Counsel Charles M. LaFollette at the podium during the Justice Case. Behind him is the prosecution team

USHMM_16817, The courtroom during the Krupp Trial

RG-67.80, USHMM, The members of the Tribunal listen to the proceedings of the High Command Case. Seated from left to right are Winfield B. Hale, Presiding Justice John C. Young, and Justin W

RG-67.81, USHMM, View of the SS President Warfield (later the Exodus 1947) before it was sent to Europe to ferry illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine

RG-67.82, USHMM, Entrance gate and soldier

RG-67.83, USHMM, Soldiers stand alongside corpses

RG-67.84, USHMM, Deportation, men carrying belongings outside storefront

RG-67.85, USHMM, View of the crematoria ovens at Majdanek with piles of bones in front of them

RG-67.86, USHMM, Survivors in a tent city set up at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

RG-67.87, USHMM, Jewish forced laborers pose next to a truck in Bulgaria

RG-67.88, USHMM, Eight emaciated naked children

RG-67.89, USHMM, A group of SS officers, a woman and a dog stand on the grounds of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Anton Thumann is pictured third from the right

RG-67.90, USHMM, Bulgarian Jews dig a road in a forced labor brigade

RG-67.91, USHMM, Jewish and Bulgarian officers socialize outside a canteen at the site of a

forced labor battalion. Nissim Farhi supervised the canteen

RG-67.92, USHMM, Letter written by Varian Fry to the American consul at the U. S. embassy in Vichy seeking his help in obtaining an exit visa for Walter Meyerhof

RG-67.93, USHMM, Mug shot of Dachau Camp Commandant from 1942-1943, Martin Gottfried Weiss, who was arrested when the camp was liberated by American forces on April 29, 1945

RG-67.94, USHMM, A warehouse filled with containers of Zyklon B (poison gas pellets) at the Majdanek death camp

RG-67.95, USHMM, A Polish POW stands at attention in the roll call area (Appellplatz) at the Stutthof concentration camp

RG-67.96, USHMM, Group portrait of Jewish forced laborers at the Belzec camp

RG-67.97, USHMM, Three members of the SS staff in Gross-Rosen pose holding six piglets. The adjutant to the commandant, Kuno Schramm, is standing on the left

RG-67.98, USHMM, The commandant of Gross-Rosen, Arthur Roedl

RG-67.99, USHMM, The bodies of prisoners who perished during the evacuation of Auschwitz-Birkenau lie covered in snow on the main street of the camp immediately after the liberation

RG-67.100, USHMM, The corpses of prisoners lie in the snow outside a barracks in Auschwitz-Birkenau immediately after the liberation. Original caption Some more leftovers

RG-67.101, USHMM, Group of males with suitcases

RG-67.102, USHMM, View of the bone crushing machine used by Sonderkommando 1005 in the Janowska concentration camp to grind the bones of victims after their bodies were burned

RG-67.103, USHMM, Postwar sketch of the layout of the Belzec death camp by Belzec survivor Rudolf Reder

RG-67.104, USHMM, Sachsenhausen prisoners, wearing uniforms with triangular badges, stand in columns under the supervision of a camp guard

RG-67.105, USHMM, A transport of Jews from Subcarpathian Rus is taken off the trains and assembled on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Pictured in the front is Heinrich Preiss, a member of the Kanada commando

RG-67.106, USHMM, Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus await selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

RG-67.107, USHMM, Elderly Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus sit next to a railcar in Auschwitz-Birkenau prior to being sent to the gas chambers. One of the men wears a scarf to cover his shaven face

RG-67.108, USHMM, Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus having undergone selection are about to be gassed at Auschwitz-Birkenau

RG-67.108.01, USHMM, Jews from Subcarpathian Rus undergo a selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, on the left is an SS physician examining a Jewish man. In the foreground is Geza Lajtbs of Budapest

RG-67.109, USHMM, Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers

RG-67.109.01 ,USHMM, Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers

RG-67.110, USHMM, Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, wait to be taken to the gas chambers

RG-67.110.01, USHMM, Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau wait to be taken to the gas chambers

RG-67.111, USHMM, Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers

RG-67.112, USHMM, Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers

RG-67.113, USHMM, Jewish women from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for forced labor at Auschwitz-Birkenau, wait for further processing after disinfection and headshaving

RG-67.114, USHMM, Prisoners in the Aufräumungskommando (order commandos) unload the confiscated property of a transport of Jews from Subcarpathian Rus at a warehouse in Auschwitz-Birkenau

RG-67.115, USHMM, Auschwitz women inmates sort through a huge pile of shoes from the transport of Hungarian Jews

RG-67.116, USHMM, Chiune Sugihara sits behind a desk in his office

RG-67.117, USHMM, Three young Jewish DPs look out of the window of their train holding a homemade Zionist flag as they depart from Buchenwald on the first leg of their journey to Palestine

RG-67.118, USHMM, A young Jewish women writes her last letter before boarding the deportation train to Chelmno

RG-67.119, USHMM, Female prisoners in the Aufräumungskommando (order commandos) sort the confiscated property of a transport of Jews from Subcarpathian Rus at a warehouse in Auschwitz-Birkenau

RG-67.120, USHMM, A naked prisoner is led to an execution site in the Stutthof concentration camp, where others either have been shot already or forced to lie face down prior to being shot

RG-67.121, USHMM, Pile of abandoned shoes

RG-67.122, USHMM, The prisoners' orchestra in Buchenwald concentration camp

RG-67.123, USHMM, View of the French village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon

RG-67.124, USHMM, Juliette Usach and four boys sit beneath a sign directing the way to Le Chambon-sur-Lignon

RG-67.125, USHMM, A female survivor at Bergen-Belsen

RG-67.126, USHMM, Crematoria at Majdanek

RG-67.127, USHMM, Sobibor Sign

RG-67.128, USHMM, Varian Fry

RG-67.129, USHMM, Close-up of a Gypsy couple sitting in an open area in the Belzec concentration camp

RG-67.130, USHMM, Pile of suitcases in front of building

RG-67.131, USHMM, Smiling couple holding child

RG-67.132, USHMM, The courtroom during the Krupp Trial