USHMM photo documents, 1933-1945

Title: USHMM photo documents, 1933-1945

Predominant Dates:1939 -- 1945

ID: RG-67/

Creator: Various agencies and individuals (1933 -- 1945)

Extent: 1.0 Boxes

Languages: English [eng], German [ger]

Abstract

This is a collection of photo-documents deposited in the USHMM. A selected ammount was duplicated with the persmission and copyright clearness of the USHMM

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection comprises photo-documents reflecting the brutality of Nazi-German regime in the prewar years and in the course of the Second World War.

Biographical Note

Official government, military and security agencies as well as individual in the course of 1933 -- 1939

Box and Folder Listing

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-67.01, USHMM, Burning of non-German books in Berlin, still from a motion picture, ca. 1933

This document is a still from a black-and-white motion picture of Germans burning non-German books in Berlin. In a massive effort of censorship and propaganda, the rise of popularity and power of the Nazi Party in Germany led to such efforts.

Circa 1933.

Subject/Index Terms:: Berlin (Germany); Nazi party; Book Burning, Germany, early 1930s; Nazi Rally; Nazi regime in Germany, authoritarianism, book-burning, photographs; Germany (Europe); Censorship; Prewar footage; Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Nazi Germany, 1933-1945; Joseph Goebbels, Nazi-German politician, Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany; Nazi Propaganda; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialist government of Germany, foreign politics

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-67.02, USHMM, Mug-shot of Leopold Engleitner, a Jehovah's Witness arrested for his beliefs, ca. 1934

This document is a headshot photograph of Leopold Engleitner, a Jehovah's Witness arrested for his beliefs.

As an affirmed Jehovah's Witness, Austrian Leopold Engleitner was subject to imprisonment, first by the Fascist Dolfuss regime, and by the Nazi Regime throughout the war. Engleitner was most notably imprisoned in Buchenwald, Niederhagen, and Ravensbruck Concentration Camps. Surviving until 2013, Engleitner was the oldest surviving Austrian male Holocaust survivor.

Photograph taken circa 1934

Subject/Index Terms:: Austria (1933-1939); Bad Ischl (Austria); Buchenwald (Germany: concentration camp); Survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp; Leopold Engleitner, survivor of Buchenwald, Ravensbruck, and Niederhagen; Ravensbruck, Concentration camp (Germany); Niederhagen, Concentration camp (Germany); survivors of concentration camps; Jehovah's witness; Arrests and captures; Salzburg (Austria); Germany (Europe); Prewar photographs

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-67.03, USHMM, Adolf Hitler meets Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain upon his arrival in Munich, 1938

This document is a photograph of the diplomatic meeting between British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and Nazi German head of state Adolf Hitler, meeting in Berlin in 1938. The topic which called for a meeting became what is known as the "Munich Agreement", an act of appeasement by the British which would offer Hitler portions of Czechoslovakia, known as the "Sudetenland", in order to maintain peace in Europe.

The Munich Agreement was held on 29 Septmeber, 1938.

Subject/Index Terms:: Czechoslovakia (1918 -- 1938 ); Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia); Nazi party in Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, 1922 -- 1938; Chamberlain, Neville (British Prime Minister); Great Britain (1920-1938); Munich Agreement (September 29, 1938); Munich (Germany); Adolf Hitler, dictator and German Chancellor and President; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; Interwar Europe, historic photographs, 1933 -- 1939; Germany (Europe)

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-67.04, USHMM, German Jewish members of a hachshara at Westerbork Camp dance the hora, ca. 1941

This document is a photograph of German Jewish prisoners performing traditional dances of Jewish culture called the hora, while imprisoned at the Westerbork Concentration camp in the Netherlands.

ca. 1941

Subject/Index Terms:: Prisoners of Westerbork transit camp, the Netherlands; Westerbork (Netherlands: Transit Camp); day-to-day life in Nazi concentration camps; Jewish folk songs; Jewish -- German heritage; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Deportation from Westerbork transit camp, 1940-1945

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-67.05, USHMM, An advertisement for a lecture series given in New York City by Varian Fry, ca 1941

This document is a copy of a pamphlet advertising a lecture given by American journalist, Varian Fry, in New York city.

Varian Fry is best known for his efforts to rescue anti-Nazi refugees from German-occupied France, or Vichy France, from 1940-41. After German occupation in France, Fry was sent to France by the Emergency Rescue Committee, a private American relief organization, to conduct document forgeries and other actions that would allow for the emigration of many labeled as anti-Fascists, Jewish and non-Jewish, enemies of the Nazis.

In his effort, Fry aided the refuge of around 2,000 persons, including distinguished artists and intellectuals.

circa 1941

Subject/Index Terms:: Fry, Varian (American journalist); Vichy Government, France, 1940 -- 1944; France (1940--1945); Germany (Europe); Marseilles (France); Jewish refugees in Vichy France; United States (1939 -- 1945); New York (New York, United States); Philippe Petain, Marshal of France, the Head of State of Vichy France, 1940 -- 1944; Second World War, 1939 -- 1945; Gestapo (Nazi German Secret political police); Committees and organizations aiding refugees from German-controlled and occupied countries, US; Righteous Among the Nations; Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem; Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-67.06, USHMM, Varian Fry walking along the street in Marseilles, ca. 1941

This document is a photograph of American journalist and 'Righteous Among the Nations' recipient, Varian Fry, walking along the streets of Marseilles, France.

In his effort, Fry aided the refuge of around 2,000 persons, including distinguished artists and intellectuals.

circa 1941

Subject/Index Terms:: Marseilles (France); France (1940--1945); Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945; Fry, Varian (American journalist); Vichy Government, France, 1940 -- 1944; Philippe Petain, Marshal of France, the Head of State of Vichy France, 1940 -- 1944; Jewish refugees in Vichy France; United States (1939 -- 1945); New York (New York, United States); Second World War, 1939 -- 1945; Gestapo (Nazi German Secret political police); Committees and organizations aiding refugees from German-controlled and occupied countries, US; Righteous Among the Nations; Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem; Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-67.07, USHMM, March from Madison Square Garden to protest the Nazi persecution of Jews, March, 1933

This document is a photograph of an anti-Nazi rally being held on the streets on New York City, and in Madison Square Garden, in the year 1933.

This photograph should not be mistaken for a pro-Nazi rally that was held in New York City in 1939.

The rally was planned after purely visible suppression of Jewish rights in Germany were publicized in the United States.

March, 1933

Subject/Index Terms:: New York (New York, United States); United States (1900 -- 1939); anti-Nazi Resistance, propaganda; Photographs, pre-Second World War; anti-Nazi rally, American; Protests against Nazi crimes in Europe, United States; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-67.08, Camps, Bergen Belsen, USHMM, Survivor sits on a railing outside hospital barracks at the Ebensee Camp, ca. 1945

This document is a photograph of a survivor of the Bergen Belsen camp. The photo captures the surviving prisoner weeping as he and others are rehabilitated back to full health at the Ebensee DP camp in Austria.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration Camp); Ebensee Concentration Camp; Austria (1939--1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939 -- 1945); Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs; Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; Bergen (Germany); survivors of concentration camps; Germany (Europe)

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-67.09, Camps, Bergen Belsen, USHMM, A mass grave in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, ca. 1945

This document is a photograph from the USHMM collection.

The photograph shows an exposed and unfinished mass grave found during the liberation of Bergen Belsen Concentration camp in Bergen, northern Germany.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Bergen (Germany); Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration Camp); Germany (Europe); Mass graves at the liberated Nazi-German concentration camps, photo-documents; Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs; Prisoners of Nazi-German concentration camps, postliberation conditions; Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; Nazi-German concentration camps after liberation, photographs; Holocaust, Jewish (1939 -- 1945); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; evidences of the crimes of National Socialist regime; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 10: RG-67.10, Camps, Bergen Belsen, USHMM, Women survivors stand behind the fence of camp, ca. 1945

This document is a photograph that is a part of the USHMM collection.

The photograph, presumably taken by a member of the British or Canadian liberators, shows women greeting the liberators along the barbed wire fence that borders around the Bergen-Belsen camp.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Bergen (Germany); Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration Camp); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945); evidences of the crimes of National Socialist regime; Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs; Armed Forces, British; Prisoners of Nazi-German concentration camps, postliberation conditions; Germany (Europe)

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 11: RG-67.11, Camps, Bergen Belsen, USHMM, female survivors lie on the floor of barracks after liberation, ca. 1945

This document is a photograph from the USHMM collection.

This visually-striking photograph shows a woman laying amongst others in one of the barracks of Bergen-Belsen camp in Bergen, Germany, during the liberation of the camp.

ca. 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: Bergen (Germany); Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration Camp); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Armed Forces, British; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); evidences of the crimes of National Socialist regime

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 12: RG-67.12, Camps, Bergen Belsen, USHMM, Evacuating female political prisoners, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photos from the Bergen Belsen Concentration camp, in Bergen, northern Germany.

The photo captures a group of female political prisoners evacuating the camp, presumably after liberation.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration Camp); Bergen (Germany); Germany (Europe); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Political prisoners of Nazi German prisons; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Female prisoners of the German concentration camps; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 13: RG-67.13, Camps, Bergen Belsen, USHMM, An emaciated survivor sits on a stretcher, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM Collection.

The image shows a severely emaciated female survivor on a stretcher, awaiting medical treatment after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which was located in Bergen, Germany.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration Camp); Female prisoners of the German concentration camps; Bergen (Germany); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; evidences of the crimes of National Socialist regime; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 14: RG-67.14, Camps, Buchenwald, USHMM, Young survivors behind barbed wire fence, Abram Zylbersztajn (middle), ca. 1945

This photo-document is part of the USHMM Collection.

The image captured is of young Holocaust survivors from the Buchenwald camp located in Weimar, Germany. The three boys are photographed behind a barbed wire fence, and are smiling, which leads that this photograph was taken during liberation of the camp.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Buchenwald (Germany: concentration camp); Buchenwald (Germany: Concentration Camp), post-liberation photographs; Aftermath of the Buchenwald concentration camp liberation, photographs, 1945; Germany (Europe); Weimar (Germany); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945); evidences of the crimes of National Socialist regime; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation; Abram Zylbersztajn, Buchenwald camp survivor; Aftermath of the Buchenwald concentration camp liberation, 1945; Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 15: RG-67.15, Camps, Buchenwald, USHMM, Prisoners at roll call, ca. 1945

This photo-dcoument is part of the USHMM collection.

This photograph shows a group of male prisoners lined up for roll call at Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany. The male prisoners are dressed in full prisoner garb.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Buchenwald (Germany: concentration camp); Weimar (Germany); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Aftermath of the Buchenwald concentration camp liberation, 1945; Aftermath of the Buchenwald concentration camp liberation, photographs, 1945; Appel (Roll Call) in Nazi-German concentration camps, 1933 -- 1945; Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 16: RG-67.16, Camps, Buchenwald, USHMM, Five handicapped Jewish prisoners, photographed for propaganda, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

The image includes five handicapped Jewish prisoners dressed in prisoner garb, tagged with an inverted triangle badge, presumably a black triangle, which labels the prisoner with "asocial elements," specifically mental or physical illness.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Buchenwald (Germany: concentration camp); Jewish yellow stars of David, Jewish badges and patches; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; Health and illness in concentration camps; Weimar (Germany); Germany (Europe)

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 17: RG-67.15, Camps Buchenwald, SHMM, Newly arrived Polish prisoners at roll call, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

The image shows newly arrived Polish prisoners at roll call at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Weimar (Germany); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Buchenwald (Germany: concentration camp); Appel (Roll Call) in Nazi-German concentration camps, 1933 -- 1945; Prisoners, Polish; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Photographs, concentration camps; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 18: RG-67.18, Camps, Buchenwald, USHMM, Yougn survivor poses with a soldier, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

The image encaptures a moment between a young Buchenwald camp survivor being comforted by an American soldier that was part of the American forces that liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp, in Weimar, Germany, on April 11, 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Buchenwald (Germany: concentration camp); Aftermath of the Buchenwald concentration camp liberation, 1945; Aftermath of the Buchenwald concentration camp liberation, photographs, 1945; Prisoners, children; Awareness of Nazi atrocities in Europe, soldiers, American; Weimar (Germany); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Buchenwald (Germany: Concentration Camp), post-liberation photographs; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Allied soldiers, liberation of Nazi-German concentration camps, photo-documents; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 19: RG-67.19, Camps, Buchenwald, USHMM, Forced labor on the assembly line, Gustloff Werke II munitions plant, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

This particular image shows the Gustloff Werke II munitions plant factory, where prisoners from the Buchenwald concentration camp were forced to work.

Weimar, Germany

Subject/Index Terms:: Buchenwald (Germany: concentration camp); Buchenwald (Germany: Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration camps; Forced laborers, Jewish, 1933 -- 1945; Forced labor in concentration camps; Weimar (Germany); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Gustloff Werke II munitions plant (Weimar, Germany); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 20: RG-67.20, Camps, Buchenwald, USHMM, Prisoners building the Weimar-Buchenwald railroad line, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

This image shows prisoners from the Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany, laboring under forced conditions, to finish the Weimar-Buchenwald railroad line.

Forced labor, Buchenwald concentration camp.

ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Buchenwald (Germany: concentration camp); Buchenwald concentration camp, outside slave labor units; Forced labor in concentration camps; German Railroad and Railways; Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; evidences of the crimes of National Socialist regime; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Weimar (Germany); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945)

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 21: RG-67.21, Camps, Buchenwald, USHMM, A survivor of displays his tattooed arm, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs from Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany.

This particular photograph is of a survivor of the Buchenwald camp dressed in prisoner garb. He has rolled up his sleeve to show his tattoo given on arrival to the camp.

Presumed post-liberation, ca. 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: Buchenwald (Germany: Concentration Camp), post-liberation photographs; Buchenwald (Germany: concentration camp); Weimar (Germany); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Armed forces, American; Aftermath of the Buchenwald concentration camp liberation, photographs, 1945; Survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp; survivors of concentration camps; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 22: RG-67.22, Camps, Buchenwald, USHMM, Survivors lie on wooden bunks that are four tiers high in barracks, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection from Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany.

This particular image shows the inside of the prisoner living barracks at Buchenwald camp, which consist of wooden bunks stacked four tiers high.

Many of the men are resting and looking towards the photographer. One man poses naked. Others resting are not looking toward the photographer.

Presumed post-liberation, ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Buchenwald (Germany: Concentration Camp), post-liberation photographs; Buchenwald (Germany: concentration camp); National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Weimar (Germany); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Armed forces, American; Survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; Prisoners of Nazi-German concentration camps, postliberation conditions; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 23: RG-67.23, Camps, Chelmno, USHMM, Men on the ground with their hands on their heads in the Chelmno killing center, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection from the Chelmno killing center near Lodz, Poland.

The image shows male prisoners sitting with their hands gestured behind their heads, presumably a forced gesture. In the background is a faint depiction of Nazi prison guards talking amongst themselves.

Photo-document of Chelmno killing center, wartime, ca. 1942.

Subject/Index Terms:: Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Chelmno (Poland: Extermination Center); Chelmno complex of concentration camps (Poland); Poland (Europe); Lodz (Poland); Europe (1939 -- 1945); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Prisoners, Jewish; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 24: RG-67.24, Camps, Chelmno, USHMM, Belongings of the Jews gassed cover the floor of a synagogue in nearby Kolo, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, taken at Kolo synagogue near Chelmno killing center in Poland.

This image shows the Kolo synagogue, which was used as a holding area for Jews that were determined to be gassed at the Chelmno killing center. Prisoners personal belongings were left at the synagogue before their journey to Chelmno, and the photograph shows personal belongings which cover the entire floor of the Kolo synagogue.

Post-liberation, circa 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Confiscation of personal belongings and property; Chelmno (Poland: Extermination Center); Chelmno complex of concentration camps (Poland); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Poland (Europe); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Synagogues, religious temples; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs; Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation; Photographs, transports and deportations; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 25: RG-67.25, Camps, Dora, USHMM, Corpses of prisoners laid out for mass burial in the Nordhausen concentration camp, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Nordhausen concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany.

This particular image captures the physical condition of deceased prisoners during the time of liberation of the Dora-Nordhausen camp. The corpses were laid out for mass burial, however the mass burial did not happen, and the corpses stayed laid out until liberation of the camp.

ca. 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: Dora-Mittelbau (Germany: labor camp); Dora-Mittelbau (Concentration camp); American soldiers, liberation of Nordhausen; Dora-Nordhausen (Concentration camp); Nordhausen (Germany); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, Nazi-perpetrated massacres and atrocities; Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 26: RG-67.26, Camps, Dora, USHMM, German civilians removing corpses from Nordhausen camp for burial in mass graves, ca. 1945

This photo-documen is from the USHMM collection of photographs from the Nordhausen concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany.

This image shows a group of German civilians forced to remove corpses that had not been buried up to the point of liberation.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; German civilians digging mass graves for concentration camp victims; Nordhausen (Germany); Nordhausen (Concentration camp); Dora-Mittelbau (Germany: labor camp); Dora-Mittelbau (Concentration camp); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes; American soldiers, liberation of Nordhausen; Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 27: RG-67.27, Camps, Dora, American soldiers walk among laid out corpses in Nordhausen concentration camp, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at Dora-Nordhausen camp in Nordhausen, Germany.

The Nordhausen camp, liberated by American soldiers, are shown walking through a courtyard filled with deceased victims from the Nordhausen camp.

Post-liberation, ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Nordhausen (Concentration camp); Nordhausen (Germany); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Dora-Mittelbau (Germany: labor camp); Dora-Mittelbau (Concentration camp); American soldiers, liberation of Nordhausen; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, Nazi-perpetrated massacres and atrocities

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 28: RG-67.28, Camps, Dora, USHMM, Emaciated survivor wearing only his uniform shirt, likely in Nordhausen camp, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs from liberation of Nordhausen camp in Nordhausen, Germany.

This photograph shows an emaciated survivor barely clothed with only his prisoner uniform shirt.

Liberation of Nordhausen, ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Nordhausen (Concentration camp); Nordhausen (Germany); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Dora-Mittelbau (Germany: labor camp); Dora-Mittelbau (Concentration camp); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); American soldiers, liberation of Nordhausen; Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 29: RG-67.29, Camps, Gurs, USHMM, Four female prisoners stand outside a barracks behind a barbed wire fence in Ilot, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of images from the Gurs internment camp in France.

The photograph shows four female prisoners standing outside of the living barracks behind the barbed wire fence that bordered the camp.

Presumably, this image was taken during Allied liberation of France, including the Gurs camp.

ca. 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: Gurs (France: Internment Camp); France (1940--1945); German occupation regime in France, 1940 -- 1944; Vichy Government, France, 1940 -- 1944; Female prisoners of the German concentration camps; Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Europe (1939 -- 1945); National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Allied soldiers, liberation of Nazi-German concentration camps, photo-documents; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Internment camps, French

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 30: RG-67.30, Camps, Gurs, Group portrait of Jewish prisoners, Samuel Liebermensch (center), ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of images from Gurs internment camp in France.

This photograph was presumably taken during the Shoah, at Gurs-Ilot camp, and specifically captures a group of Jewish prisoners being interned at Gurs-Ilot camp.

Pictured in the center of the group is Samuel Liebermensch, whom was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.

Gurs internment camp, ca. 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: Gurs (France: Internment Camp); Internment camps, French; France (1940--1945); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; German occupation regime in France, 1940 -- 1944; Vichy Government, France, 1940 -- 1944; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Prisoners, Jewish; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Samuel Liebermensch, prisoner of Gurs and Auschwitz; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 31: RG-67.31, Camps, Jasenovac, USHMM, Ustasa guards confiscate the possessions of newly arrived prisoners, ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically from the Jasenovac camp in former Yugoslavia.

The image specifically shows Jasenovac camp guards, Ustasa guards, confiscating the personal belongings of newly arrived prisoners.

USHMM collection, Jasenovac camp, ca. 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Ustasa Militia, Ustase Militia (Croatian fascist and terrorist group); Jasenovac (Yugoslavia: Concentration Camp); Yugoslavia (1941--1945); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Prisoner luggage upon arrival at a concentration camp; Personal belongings; Confiscation of Jewish property without German authorization; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 32: RG-67.32, Camps, Jasenovac, USHMM, View of the Jasenovac concentration camp, ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically from Jasenovac concentration camp in former Yugoslavia.

This image specifically shows a birds-eye view of a snow covered Jasenovac concentration camp. Snow-covered barracks and a chimney is seen in the picture.

ca. 1943.

Subject/Index Terms:: Jasenovac (Yugoslavia: Concentration Camp); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Yugoslavia (1941--1945); Independent Croatian State (Europe: Country), 1941 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Ustasa Militia, Ustase Militia (Croatian fascist and terrorist group); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 33: RG-67.33, Camps, Jasenovac, USHMM, Ustasa militia execute prisoners near concentration camp, ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at Jasenovac concentration camp during the Second World War.

This image shows members of the Ustasa militia at Jasenovac camp in former Yugoslavia, executing camp prisoners and throwing the bodies into a mass grave.

ca. 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Independent Croatian State (Europe: Country), 1941 -- 1945; Yugoslavia (1941--1945); Jasenovac (Yugoslavia: Concentration Camp); Europe (1939 -- 1945); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; mass graves; Photographs, executions; Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945; Ustasa Militia, Ustase Militia (Croatian fascist and terrorist group)

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 34: RG-67.34, Camps, Jasenovac, USHMM, Serbs and Gypsies are marched to camp by Ustasa guard, ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically a photograph from Jasenovac concentration camp in former Yugoslavia.

This image shows various Serbs and Gypsies being escorted to the Jasenovac camp by an Ustasa guard.

ca. 1943.

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Jasenovac (Yugoslavia: Concentration Camp); Ustasa Militia, Ustase Militia (Croatian fascist and terrorist group); Independent Croatian State (Europe: Country), 1941 -- 1945; Yugoslavia (1941--1945); Serbian prisoners; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Transports at the arrival to concentration camps; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 35: RG-67.35, Camps, Jasenovac, USHMM, Serbian prisoners interned in Jasenovac, ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs from the Jasenovac concentration camp in former Yugoslavia.

This image shows Serbian prisoners waiting to be interned in the Jasenovac camp.

ca. 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: Jasenovac (Yugoslavia: Concentration Camp); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Ustasa Militia, Ustase Militia (Croatian fascist and terrorist group); Serbian prisoners; Independent Croatian State (Europe: Country), 1941 -- 1945; Yugoslavia (1941--1945); Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Europe (1939 -- 1945); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 36: RG-67.36, Camps, Majdanek, USHMM, Prisoners at forced labor, ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically photographs from the Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin in Nazi-occupied Poland.

This image shows Ustasa guards keeping watch on Majdanek prisoners during forced labor at the camp.

ca. 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: Lublin (Poland); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); German-occupied Poland, 1939-1945; Majdanek (Poland: Concentration Camp); Forced labor in concentration camps; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes; Photographs, concentration camps

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 37: RG-67.37, Camps, Majdanek, USHMM, A section of the prisoners' barracks in Majdanek, ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs from the Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin in German-occupied Poland.

This image shows endless rows of prisoners' barracks in the Majdanek camp, bordering the barbed wire fences of the camp.

ca. 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: Majdanek (Poland: Concentration Camp); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Lublin (Poland); German-occupied Poland, 1939-1945; Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 38: RG-67.38, Camps, Mauthausen, Prisoners carry large stones up the stairs of death (Todesstiege), ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at Mauthausen concentration camp in upper Austria.

The image shows prisoners of the Mauthausen camp carrying large stones up the so-called "Stairs of Death", or Todesstiege, during forced labor.

ca. 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: Forced labor in the quarry (Mauthausen); Mauthausen (Austria: Concentration Camp); Mauthausen (Austria); Austria (1939--1945); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 39: RG-67.39, Camps, Mauthausen, USHMM, Interior view of a gas chamber at Mauthausen, ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically taken from photographs of Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria.

This specific image shows the interior view of a gas chamber at Mauthausen concentration camp.

ca. 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: Mauthausen (Austria); Mauthausen (Austria: Concentration Camp); Austria (1939--1945); Europe (1939 -- 1945); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; Nazi gas chambers; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 40: RG-67.40, Camps, Mauthausen, USHMM, Disabled Polish and Russian survivors stand in front of US tank, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, selected from photographs of Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria.

This image, taken during the American liberation of Mauthausen camp, shows a handful of disabled Polish and Russian survivors standing in front of a liberation American war tank.

ca. 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: Mauthausen (Austria); Mauthausen (Austria: Concentration Camp); Mauthausen concentration camp, liberation and its aftermath; Austria (1939--1945); Europe (1939 -- 1945); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Prisoners of Nazi-German concentration camps, postliberation conditions; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes; Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs; US soldiers, liberation of Nazi-German concentration camps, photo-documents; Prisoners, Polish; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation; survivors of concentration camps

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 41: RG-67.41, Camps, Mauthausen, USHMM, 6,000 naked prisoners in courtyard where they await disinfection, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria.

This image shows around 6,000 naked prisoners in a courtyard awaiting disinfection, presumably during liberation of the camp.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Mauthausen (Austria); Mauthausen (Austria: Concentration Camp); Austria (1939--1945); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 42: RG-67.42, Camps, Mauthausen, USHMM, Heinrich Himmler confers with SS officers while visiting Mauthausen, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria.

This particular image shows Heinrich Himmler in conversation with other SS officers during an inspection at Mauthausen camp.

ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Mauthausen (Austria); Mauthausen (Austria: Concentration Camp); Austria (1939--1945); Europe (1939 -- 1945); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Inspection of Nazi concentration camps, Heinrich Himmler, 1933 -- 1945; Heinrich Himmler, leading member of Nazi Party 1929-1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; SS and administrative personnel, German; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photographs, Second World War; Photographs, concentration camps; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 43: RG-67.43, Camps, Mauthausen, USHMM, Prisoners crowded into a wooden bunk celebrate their liberation, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria.

This image in particular was taken during American troops liberation of the Mauthausen camp, and shows a group of male prisoners posing in the prisoner barracks.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Mauthausen (Austria); Mauthausen (Austria: Concentration Camp); Mauthausen concentration camp, liberation and its aftermath; Austria (1939--1945); Europe (1939 -- 1945); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs; US soldiers, liberation of Nazi-German concentration camps, photo-documents; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Prisoners of Nazi-German concentration camps, postliberation conditions; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Photographs, concentration camps

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 44: RG-67.44, Camps, Mauthausen, USHMM, Cheering survivors greet American troops as first tanks enter camp, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically photographs taken at Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria.

This specific image shows American troops arriving via war tank at the Mauthausen camp to a crowd of cheering survivors.

ca. 1945

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 45: RG-67.45, Camps, Sachenshausen Gross-Rosen, USHMM, Biesinitzer Grund (Goerlitz) camp after liberation, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at the Gross-Rosen Goerlitz concentration camp in Biesnitz, Polna

Subject/Index Terms:: National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp); Nazi concentration camps in Poland; Poland (Europe); Biesinitzer Grund (Goerlitz) camp, Poland; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Liberation of concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 46: RG-67.46, Camps, Treblinka, USHMM, Families disembark train, ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at Treblinka extermination camp in Poland.

This image shows a group of families disembarking off the transport train at arrival of Treblinka camp, and escorted by a guard.

Treblinka camp, USHMM, ca. 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: Treblinka (Poland); Treblinka (Poland: extermination camp); Deportation to Treblinka extermination camp, photographs; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Transports at the arrival to concentration camps; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Poland (Europe); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 47: RG-67.47, Camps, Treblinka, USHMM, Treblinka building, ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically from photographs of the Treblinka extermination camp in Poland.

This photograph shows an unknown building marked with the word, "Treblinka," ca. 1943.

Subject/Index Terms:: Treblinka (Poland); Treblinka (Poland: extermination camp); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photographs, concentration camps; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 48: RG-67.48, Camps, Treblinka, USHMM, Jews expelled from plock are resettled in Chmielnik, ca. 1942

aThis photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs relating to Treblinka camp in Poland.

This particular image shows the transportation of Jews to the township of Chmielnik, before being sent to the Treblinka extermination camp.

ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Chmielnik (Poland); Treblinka (Poland: extermination camp); Poland (Europe); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, transports and deportations; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; Prisoners, Jewish

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 49: RG-67.49, Camps, Treblinka, USHMM, Soldier entering into building, ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at Treblinka extermination camp in Poland.

This image shows a Nazi guard entering into a building within the Treblinka grounds.

ca. 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: Treblinka (Poland: extermination camp); Treblinka (Poland); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photographs, concentration camps; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 50: RG-67.50, Camps, Westerbork, USHMM, Jewish inmates work at construction site, Kurt Majerowicz (front), ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically photographs taken at Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands.

This image shows Jewish inmates involved in forced labor at a construction site at Westerbork. Kurt Majerowicz is the inmate in the front.

ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Westerbork (Netherlands: Transit Camp); The Netherlands (Europe); Prisoners of Westerbork transit camp, the Netherlands; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Holocaust in the Netherlands, 1940 -- 1945; Prisoners, Jewish; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, transit camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Europe (1939 -- 1945); National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Kurt Majerowicz, prisoner at Westerbork; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 51: RG-67.51, Camps, Westerbork, USHMM, Two Jewish children share bicycle outside barracks, Michael Fink (left), ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands.

This particular image shows a boy and a girl playing on a bicycle outside of the Westerbork living barracks. The boy is Michael Fink.

ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Westerbork (Netherlands: Transit Camp); The Netherlands (Europe); Prisoners of Westerbork transit camp, the Netherlands; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Holocaust in the Netherlands, 1940 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Prisoners, Jewish; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photographs, transit camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; Michael Fink, Westerbork inmate

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 52: RG-67.51, Camps, Westerbork, USHMM, Jewish school children and teachers, all wearing Jewish stars, ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands.

This particular image shows a group of school children and teachers posing in front of a school house within the Westerbork camp. Every person in the picture is adorned with the Jewish yellow star.

ca. 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: Westerbork (Netherlands: Transit Camp); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Schools, Jewish; The Netherlands (Europe); Prisoners of Westerbork transit camp, the Netherlands; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Holocaust in the Netherlands, 1940 -- 1945; Prisoners, Jewish; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, transit camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Jewish yellow stars of David, Jewish badges and patches

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 53: RG-67.53, USHMM, German civilians from Nordhausen bury bodies of former prisoners in a mass grave, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at the Nordhausen concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany.

This particular image shows German civilians helping to bury dead bodies in a mass grave after Allied forces liberated the Nordhausen camp.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Nordhausen (Germany); American soldiers, liberation of Nordhausen; Nordhausen (Concentration camp); Germany (Europe); German civilians digging mass graves for concentration camp victims; Making German civilians aware of the Nazi crimes, 1945, photo-documents; Mass graves at the liberated Nazi-German concentration camps, photo-documents; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; National Socialism, theory and regime; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation; Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs; Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 54: RG-67.54, USHMM, The Ordnungdients, Jewish police, Westerbork, direct Dutch Jews into camp, A. Schenfliess (center), ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs from Westerbork transit camp.

This particular image shows a group of Dutch Jews being directed to Westerbork camp by a member of the Ordnungdients, or Jewish police, which maintained order in ghettos and camps.

ca. 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: Judischer Ordnungdienst (or Jüdische Ghetto-Polizei, Jewish Ghetto Police); Parasol, Judischer Ordnungdienst (or Jüdische Ghetto-Polizei, Jewish Ghetto Police); Westerbork (Netherlands: Transit Camp); The Netherlands (Europe); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Prisoners, Jewish; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Holocaust in the Netherlands, 1940 -- 1945

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 55: RG-67.55, USHMM, Department of State letter to Grete Izes, rejecting her application to enter the United States, 13 November, 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

This specific photo-document is a letter from the United States Department of State replying to Mrs. Grete Izes' inquiry regarding a woman named Esther Burstein's emigration out of Europe, and into the United States.

Details of the letter include the rejection of Mrs. Izes' inquiry to immigrate a woman named Esther Burstein into the United States.

dated 13 November, 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Emigration to the United States, rejection of applications, wartime; US Department of State; Emigration from Nazi Germany to the United States; Washington D.C. (United States); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Photo-documents of the Holocaust

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 56: RG-67.56, USHMM, Jewish refugee children of fist Kindertransport arrive in Harwich, England, girl with doll is Helga Kreiner, ca. 1939

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken during the Kindertransport.

This image shows a group of young girls involved in the Kindertransport being served a drink in Harwich, England. The girl looking at the camera with the doll is Helga Kreiner.

Subject/Index Terms:: Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England; Kindertransport, routes from Germany to United Kingdom, 1938 -- 1940; Kindertransport, photo-documents; Harwich (England); England (Europe); Jewish refugee children, resettlement in the United Kingdom, photographs; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Europe (1939 -- 1945)

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 57: RG-67.57, USHMM, View of the Gurs transit camp from the camp water tower, ca. 1944

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically photographs taken at Gurs transit camp in southwestern France.

This image shows a view of the Gurs transit camp from the water tower at the camp.

ca. 1944

Subject/Index Terms:: Gurs (France: Internment Camp); Photographs, transit camps; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; France (Europe); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 58: RG-67.58, USHMM, Oskar Schindler with his horse on the grounds of the Emalia enamel works in Krakow-Zablocie, ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs of Oskar Schindler.

This image shows Oskar Schindler with his horse on the grounds of the Emalia enamelworks factory in Krakow-Zablocie.

ca. 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: Krakow (Poland: Ghetto); Oscar Schindler, rescue and aid giver, Cracow; Cracow (Poland); Zablocie (Poland); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Poland (Europe); Righteous Among the Nations

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 59: RG-67.59, USHMM, Jewish youth in the La Guespy children's home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, pose with Juliette Usach, 1941

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

This particular image shows a group of Jewish youth posing with the Director of the La Guespy refugee home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. After World War II, Juliette Usach was honored as one of Yad Vashem's, Righteous Among the Nations, for hiding Jews from the Nazis in France.

USHMM, Juliette Usach, 1941

Subject/Index Terms:: Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (southern France); Refugees of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Jewish refugees in France; La Guespy's children's home; Usach, Juliette, head of the La Guespy children's home in Le Chambon sur Lignon, France; Europe (1939 -- 1945); France (Europe); Righteous Among the Nations; Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, France

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Document/Artifact of Item-Level 60: RG-67.60, USHMM, An aerial photograph of the Treblinka area, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken of/at Treblinka concentration camp in Treblinka, Poland.

This image is an aerial view of the Treblinka camp area and the area surrounding it.

USHMM, Treblinka, ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Treblinka (Poland); Treblinka (Poland: extermination camp); Poland (Europe); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes

Creators:: Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 61: RG-67.61, USHMM, A view of the Auschwitz II camp showing the barracks of the camp, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of images taken at Auschwitz concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland.

This specific image shows birds-eye view of the camp, with prisoners barracks spanning along the vast area.

ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration and extermination camps; Auschwitz II-Birkenau (extermination camp); Oświęcim (Poland); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

Creators:: Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 62: RG-67.62, USHMM, A view of the Majdanek concentration camp after liberation, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at the Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland.

This specific image shows a view of the Majdanek camp from a watchtower within the grounds. The photograph was taken after Soviet troops liberated the camp.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Majdanek (Poland: Concentration Camp); Lublin (Poland); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Afterwards of the liberation of Majdanek concentration camp, photographs; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 63: RG-67.63, USHMM, Crematorium, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at one of the many concentration camps during wartime Europe.

This particular image shows the inside of a crematorium building at one of the concentration camps that spanned across Europe during World War II.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Concentration Camp Crematorium; Crematoria in the Nazi-German concentration camps; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 64: RG-67.64, USHMM, Ruins of the Warsaw ghetto, ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken of the Warsaw ghetto in Warsaw, Poland.

This specific image shows the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazis as a result of the Warsaw uprising of 1943.

Warsaw ghetto, USHMM, ca. 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: Warsaw (Poland: ghetto); Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Poland); Warsaw (Poland); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes; Destruction of the Warsaw ghetto, post-uprising; Destruction of buildings during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, Warsaw Ghetto; Photographs, ghettos; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 65: RG-67.65, USHMM, Photograph of young male child, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

This photograph is a portrait style indentification photograph of a young male child.

ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Photographs, portraits; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Europe (1939 -- 1945); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 66: RG-67.66, USHMM, Jewish Prisoner mug shots in Auschwitz, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs from the Auschwitz concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland.

This particular image is a collection of mugshot photographs taken of a Jewish prisoner being processed into the Auschwitz camp.

USHMM, ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland: Concentration Camp); Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Prisoners, Jewish, Auschwitz complex of concentration camps, photographs; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Oświęcim (Poland); Poland (Europe); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Prisoners, Jewish, Auschwitz complex of camps

Creators:: Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 67: RG-67.67, USHMM, A view of the fences that enclosed Majdanek, ca. 1944

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs from the Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland.

This particular image shows a view of the fences that enclose Majdanek concentration camp in Poland.

USHMM, Majdanek, ca. 1944

Subject/Index Terms:: Majdanek (Poland: Concentration Camp); Majdanek (Concentration camp); Lublin (Poland); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 68: RG-67.68, USHMM, Jewish refugees aboard the SS St. Louis attempt to communicate with friends and relatives in Cuba, ca. 1939

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs of SS St. Louis.

The SS St. Louis, filled with Jewish refugees at the start of World War II, set for the Americas in 1939 with the goal of being received by Cuba and the United States. However, a breakdown in negotiations brought the Jewish refugees aboard SS St. Louis back to Europe in June, 1939.

SS St. Louis, USHMM, ca. 1939

Subject/Index Terms:: Voyage of the St. Louis, May -- June 1939; Jewish refugees; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Europe (1939 -- 1945); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Cuba (1902 -- 1959); United States (1939 -- 1945)

Creators:: Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 69: RG-67.69, USHMM, The first prisoners at Stutthof eat during a break in the construction of the camp, ca. 1939

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at Stutthof concentration camp in Poland.

This image shows forced laborers on a lunch break during construction of the Stutthof concentration camp.

USHMM, Stutthof, ca. 1939

Subject/Index Terms:: Stutthof (Poland: Concentration Camp); Stutthof (Concentration camp); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Jewish forced labor in Poland; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners

Creators:: Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 70: RG-67.70, USHMM, Defendant Otto Schulz sits at the dock during the Dachau war crimes trial, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

This particular photograph shows Otto Schulz, former Dachau guard, being tried for warcrimes and crimes against humanity during his tenure at Dachau concentration camp in Germany.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Otto Schulz, Dachau guard; Dachau war crimes trial; Dachau (Germany); Dachau (Germany: Concentration Camp); Germany (Europe); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); war crimes trials, Nazi Germans; Photographs, war crimes trials; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 71: RG-67.71, USHMM, Seated male prisoner with feet shackled, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

This specific image shows a seated male prisoner with his feet shackled at an unknown concentration camp in wartime Europe.

USHMM, prisoner, ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Europe (1939 -- 1945); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Prisoners in the camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Concentration camps, German

Creators:: Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 72: RG-67.72, USHMM, Newly arrived Polish prisoners lined up for registration in Buchenwald concentration camp, ca. 1943

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany.

This specific photograph shows a group of newly arrived Polish prisoners lined up for registration and observation by Nazi guards at Buchenwald camp in Weimar.

USHMM, Buchenwald, ca. 1943

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Prisoners, Polish; Buchenwald (Germany: concentration camp); Buchenwald (Germany: Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration camps; Weimar (Germany); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Appel (Roll Call) in Nazi-German concentration camps, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Photographs, concentration camps; The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 73: RG-67.73, USHMM, Newly arrived Czech prisoners in civilian clothes stand at roll call in Buchenwald camp, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically photographs from the Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany.

This particular image shows newly arrived Czech prisoners in civilian dress at roll call in Buchenwald camp in Germany.

USHMM, Buchenwald, ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Prisoners, Czech; Buchenwald (Germany: Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration camps; Buchenwald (Germany: concentration camp); Weimar (Germany); Germany (Europe); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945); The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Appel (Roll Call) in Nazi-German concentration camps, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Photographs, concentration camps

Creators:: Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 74: RG-67.74, USHMM, German citizens saluting Adolf Hitler at the opening of the 11th Olympiad in Berlin, 1936

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of images.

This particular image was taken at the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany, and depicts a German/Aryan crowd saluting Adolf Hitler before the beginning of the festivities.

1936

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Berlin Olympics, 1936; Berlin (Germany); Germany (Europe); Civilians, German; Prewar photographs; Interwar Europe, historic photographs, 1933 -- 1939; Nazi salute; Adolf Hitler, dictator and German Chancellor and President; National Socialism, theory and regime; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 75: RG-67.75, USHMM, The Jewish obstetrician, Dr. Laszlo Halmos, stands behind examination table in Kosice, ca. 1939

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs related to the World War II era.

This particular image is of Dr. Laszlo Halmos, a Slovakian Jew whose profession was as an obstetrician. He poses behind his examination table at his practice in Kosice, Slovakia, ca. 1939.

During the war, Dr. Halmos was conscripted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion, where he passed in 1943.

Subject/Index Terms:: Dr. Laszlo Halmos, member of Hungarian labor battalion; Slovakia (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); deportation of Slovakian Jews; Jewish life; Hungarian labor battalions; Jewish forced labor in Hungarian labor battalions; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 76: RG-67.76, USHMM, The Jewish obstetrician, Dr. Laszlo Halmos, stands behind examination table in Kosice, ca. 1939

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs during the Second World War era.

This particular image shows a group of women knitting.

Location unknown, ca. 1939

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Photographs, pre-Second World War

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 77: RG-67.77, USHMM, Men disembarking from ship, ca. 1939

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

This particular photographs shows a group of men disembarking a ship, while military men look on.

USHMM, ca. 1939.

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photographs, Second World War; Europe (1939 -- 1945)

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 78: RG-67.78, USHMM, International Military Tribunal Courtroom, Nuremberg, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at the Nuremberg Trials.

This particular image shows a view of the International Military Tribunal Courtroom, or Nuremberg Trials, being held following the conclusion of the Second World War, in effort to try those convicted of war crimes against humanity.

USHMM, ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Nuremberg (Germany); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); United States Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal; War crimes trials--Post-WWII; war crimes trials, Nazi Germans; Photographs, war crimes trials; Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988; Trials and proceedings over Nazi-German perpetrators

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 79: RG-67.79, USHMM, U.S. Deputy Chief of Counsel Charles M. LaFollette at the podium during the Justice Case, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken during the International Military Tribunal, or Nuremberg Trials, following the conclusion of the Second World War.

This particular image shows U.S. Deputy Chief of Counsel, Charles M. LaFollette, at the podium during the Justice Case at the Nuremberg Trials.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); United States Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal; war crimes trials, Nazi Germans; War crimes trials--Post-WWII; Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988; Trials and proceedings over Nazi-German perpetrators; United States (1945 -- 1960)

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 80: RG-67.80, USHMM, The members of the Tribunal listen to the proceedings of the High Command Case, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken during the International Military Tribunal, or Nuremberg Trials, held after the conclusion of the Second World War.

This particular image shows a birds-eye-view of the Tribunal judges, listening in on the war crimes trial of Nazi High Command.

USHMM, ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Wehrmacht High Command, 1939 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Nuremberg (Germany); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); United States Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal; War crimes trials--Post-WWII; war crimes trials, Nazi Germans; Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988; Trials and proceedings over Nazi-German perpetrators; United States (1945 -- 1960)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 81: RG-67.81, USHMM, The SS President Warfield before it was sent to Europe to ferry Jewish immigrants to Palestine, ca. 1946

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken after the conclusion of the Second World War.

This particular image shows the SS President Warfield before its journey to Europe, in effort to transport European Jews to Palestine.

ca. 1946

Subject/Index Terms:: SS President Warfield; Palestine, British Mandate Territory (1918--1948); Europe (1945 -- 1991); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Jewish immigrants to Palestine, 1945 -- 1948; Jewish immigrants to Palestine in the British custody, 1945 -- 1948; Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988; Emigration from Europe to Palestine, 1945 -- 1948, photographs; Great Britain (1945 -- Present)

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 82: RG-67.82, USHMM, Entrance gate and soldier, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photograps taken during the World War II era,

This particular image shows a soldier on watch at an entrance gate in Germany, on Rommel-Strasse Street.

USHMM, ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 83: RG-67.83, USHMM, Soldiers stand alongside corpses, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs from the World War II era.

This particular image shows a group of soldiers gathered around numerous nude corpses sprawled across the ground.

Presumably, the photograph was taken at a concentration camp upon liberation.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation; Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 84: RG-67.84, USHMM, Deportation, men carrying belongings outside storefront, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken during the World War II era.

This specific photograph shows deportation in action, as men carry their belonings through a city street.

USHMM, ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Deportations to concentration camps; Photographs, transports and deportations; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Roundups and Deportations of Jews

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 85: RG-67.85, USHMM, View of the crematoria ovens at Majdanek with piles of bones in front of them, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland.

This particular photograph is a view of the crematoria ovens at the Majdanek camp with a pile of bones in front of the building.

Presumably during liberation of Majdanek camp, USHMM, ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Crematoria in the Nazi-German concentration camps; Majdanek (Poland: Concentration Camp); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Lublin (Poland); Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 86: RG-67.86, USHMM, Survivors in a tent city set up at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at various concentration camps in Europe during the wartime period.

This particular image shows survivors who have set up a tent camp city at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Bergen, Germany.

Presumably taken during liberation of the Bergen Belsen camp, ca. 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration Camp); Bergen (Germany); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; survivors of concentration camps; Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs; Aftermath of the liberation, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, photo-documents, May 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 87: RG-67.87, USHMM, Jewish forced laborers pose next to a truck in Bulgaria, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken of forced labor battalions throughout the Second World War.

This particular image shows a group of Jewish forced laborers posing in front of a truck in Bulgaria.

USHMM, ca. 1942.

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Forced laborers, Jewish, 1933 -- 1945; Bulgaria (1939--1945); The Jewish Question in Bulgaria, 1942 -- 1943; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Forced labor, photo-documents; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 88: RG-67.88, USHMM, Eight emaciated naked children, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

This particular image shows the physical condition of eight naked and emaciated children at one of the Nazi concentration camps during the wartime period.

Unknown camp, ca. 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: Children victims; Prisoners, children; Childhood in concentration camps; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 89: RG-67.89, USHMM, SS officers, a woman and dog on grounds of Gross-Rosen camp, Anton Thumann (third from the right), ca. 1941

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs at the various concentration camps throughout Europe during the wartime period.

This particular image shows a group of SS officers and a woman enjoying a conversation on the Gross-Rosen camp grounds in Poland.

The man third from the rigth is Anton Thumann, an SS officer who was convicted of crimes against humanity following the conclusion of the Second World War.

ca. 1941

Subject/Index Terms:: Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); SS and administrative personnel, German; Schutzstaffel (SS); Anton Thumann, SS officer convicted of crimes against humanity; Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Military officers, Nazi-German

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 90: RG-67.90, USHMM, Bulgarian Jews dig a road in a forced labor brigade, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs of forced labor battalions.

This particular photograph shows Bulgarian Jews constructing a road in a forced labor brigade.

USHMM, ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Forced labor by German soldiers, Bulgarian Jews; Forced labor, photo-documents; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Bulgarian Jews; Bulgaria (1939--1945); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 91: RG-67.91, USHMM, Jewish and Bulgarian officers socialize outside a canteen at the site of a forced labor battalion, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at forced labor battalion camps during the wartime era.

This particular photograph shows a group of Bulgarian and Jewish officers in conversation at a campsite where forced labor is being conducted.

ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Bulgarian Jews; Forced labor, photo-documents; Forced labor by German soldiers, Bulgarian Jews; Bulgarian soldiers; The Jewish Question in Bulgaria, 1942 -- 1943; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 92: RG-67.92, USHMM, Letter from Varian Fry to U.S. embassy in Vichy seeking to obtain exit visa for Walter Meyerhof, 17 December, 1940

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

This particular image is a scan of a letter sent by Varian Fry and sent to the U.S. Embassy in Vichy France, inquiring about the visa status of a man named Walter Meyerhof.

USHMM, 17 December, 1940

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Europe (1939 -- 1945); France (1940--1945); Vichy Government, France, 1940 -- 1944; Visas to the United States; Requests for exit visas from France, 1940-1945; United States (1939 -- 1945); International correspondence, 1939 -- 1950; Photo-documents of the Holocaust

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 93: RG-67.93, USHMM, Mug shot of Dachau camp Commandant from 1942-1943, Martin Gottfried Weiss, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

This particular photographs is a mug shot of Martin Gottfried Weiss, Dachau Camp Commandant from 1942-1943. This photograph was taken presumably after his capture, and before his trial for crimes against humanity.

ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Dachau (Germany: Concentration Camp); Dachau (Germany); Germany (Europe); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Martin Gottfried Weiss, Dachau Commandant, 1942-1943; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Evidences of Nazi-German crimes against humanity, peace and warcrimes; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; Concentration camp, commandants, 1933 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 94: RG-67.94, USHMM, A warehouse filled with containers of Zyklon B (poison gas pellets) at the Majdanek death camp, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at the Majdanek death camp near Lublin, Poland.

This particular photograph shows a warehouse filled with cannisters of Zyklon B poison gas (used during mass extermination) at Majdanek death camp.

ca. 1945.

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Zyklon B; Majdanek (Poland: Concentration Camp); Lublin (Poland); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 95: RG-67.95, USHMM, A Polish POW stands at attention in the roll call area (Appelplatz) at the Stutthof concentration camp, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection, specifically of photographs taken at the Stutthof concentration camp in Germany.

This particular image shows a Polish POW standing at attention during Appel, or roll call, at Stutthof camp.

USHMM, ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Stutthof (Poland: Concentration Camp); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Appel (Roll Call) in Nazi-German concentration camps, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; Prisoners of War, Polish

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 96: RG-67.96, USHMM, Group portrait of Jewish forced laborers at the Belzec camp, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Belzec concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during the Second World War.

This particular photograph shows a group of Jewish forced laborers at the Belzec camp.

USHMM, ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Belzec extermination camp (Lublin, Poland); Forced laborers, Jewish, 1933 -- 1945; Jewish forced labor in Poland; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 97: RG-67.97, USHMM, Three members of SS staff in Gross-Rosen pose holding six piglets, Kuno Schramm (left), ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Gross-Rosen camp in Poland.

This particular photograph shows three SS officers at the Gross-Rosen camp posing with six piglets and a dog. Kuno Schramm is on the left.

ca. 1942, Gross Rosen, USHMM

Subject/Index Terms:: Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Schutzstaffel (SS); Military officers, Nazi-German; SS and administrative personnel, German; Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 98: RG-67.98, USHMM, The commandant of Gross-Rosen, Arthur Roedl, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during World War II.

This particular image is of Arthur Roedl, Commandant of Gross-Rosen, posing with his SS uniform.

Subject/Index Terms:: Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Schutzstaffel (SS); SS and administrative personnel, German; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Arthur Roedl, Commandant of Gross-Rosen; Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; Military officers, Nazi-German

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 99: RG-67.99, USHMM, Bodies of prisoners who perished during the evacuation of Auschwitz-Birkenau lie covered in snow, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex during the World War II era.

This specific photograph shows two deceased prisoner bodies covered in snow outside of the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex.

USHMM, ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland: Concentration Camp); Oświęcim (Poland); Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 100: RG-67.100, USHMM, Corpses of prisoners lie in the snow outside a barracks in Auschwitz-Birkenau after the liberation, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex post-liberation.

This particular photograph shows a group of deceased prisoners strewn along the concentration camp complex and covered in snow.

Auschwitz-Birkenau post-liberation, ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland: Concentration Camp); Poland (Europe); Oświęcim (Poland); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; Prisoners of Nazi-German concentration camps, postliberation conditions; Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 101: RG-67.101, USHMM, Group of males with suitcases, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

This particular photograph shows a group of males with suitcases, presumably during a deportation or transportation to a ghetto or concentration camp, during the World War II era.

USHMM, deportations, ca. 1942

Subject/Index Terms:: Deportation scenes; Roundups and Deportations of Jews; Photographs, transports and deportations; Prisoner luggage upon arrival at a concentration camp; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 102: RG-67.102, USHMM, View of machine used by the Janowska camp to grind bones of victims after their bodies were burned, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken from the Janowska camp near Lwow, Poland.

This particular photograph shows a machine that was used to grind bones of victims/camp prisoners after their bodies were burned.

USHMM, Janowska camp, ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: Europe (1939 -- 1945); Lwow (Poland); Poland (Europe); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Janowska (Poland: Concentration Camp); Mass extermination site at Janowska Road Concentration Camp; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 103: RG-67.103, USHMM, Postwar sketch of the layout of the Belzec death camp by Belzec survivor Rudolf Reder, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of documents regarding the Belzec death camp near Lublin, Poland.

This particular photo-document is a postwar sketch of the layout of Belzec death camp by Belzec camp survivor, Rudolf Reder.

USHMM, ca. 1945, Belzec.

Subject/Index Terms:: Belzec extermination camp (Lublin, Poland); Lublin (Poland); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Rudolf Reder, survivor from Belzec camp; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

Creators:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--); Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 104: RG-67.104, USHMM, Sachsenhausen prisoners stand in columns under the supervision of a camp guard, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany during the World War II era.

This particular photograph shows a group of camp prisoners standing at attention, with shaved heads and in prisoner uniform.

USHMM, Sachsenhausen camp, ca. 1942.

Subject/Index Terms:: Sachsenhausen (Germany: Concentration Camp); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Appel (Roll Call) in Nazi-German concentration camps, 1933 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Photographs, concentration camps; Prisoners of the concentratin camps, 1939 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 105: RG-67.105, USHMM, A transport of Jews from Subcarpathian Rus is assembled on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, ca. 1940

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex in Poland.

This particular photograph shows a transportation scene of Jews from the Ukrainian region, and other prisoners arriving at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.

USHMM, Auschwitz-Birkenau, ca. 1940

Subject/Index Terms:: Subcarpathian Rus (Carpathian Ruthenia), history; Roundups and Deportations of Jews; Photographs, transports and deportations; Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland: Concentration Camp); Poland (Europe); Oświęcim (Poland); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 106: RG-67.106, USHMM, Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus await selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, ca. 1940

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland.

This particular photograph shows a group of incoming prisoners from the Subcarpathian Rus'ian region. The men are adorned with Jewish yellow stars and prisoner uniforms.

Auschwitz-Birkenau, USHMM, ca. 1940

Subject/Index Terms:: Subcarpathian Rus (Carpathian Ruthenia), history; Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland: Concentration Camp); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Oświęcim (Poland); United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Jewish yellow stars of David, Jewish badges and patches

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 107: RG-76.107, USHMM, Elderly Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus sit next to a railcar in Auschwitz-Birkenau prior to being sent to the gas chambers, ca. 1940

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex.

This particular photograph shows a group of elderly Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus resting next to a railcar at the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex, before being sent to the gas chambers.

USHMM, Auschwitz-Birkenau, ca. 1940

Subject/Index Terms:: Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland: Concentration Camp); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Oświęcim (Poland); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Jewish elders; Subcarpathian Rus (Carpathian Ruthenia), history; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 108: RG-67.108, USHMM, Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus await selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, ca. 1940

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland during the World War II era.

This particular image shows a group of Jewish men from the Subcarpathian Rus'ian region awaiting their fate at the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex.

USHMM, Auschwitz-Birkenau, ca. 1940

Subject/Index Terms:: Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Poland (Europe); Oświęcim (Poland); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Appel (Roll Call) in Nazi-German concentration camps, 1933 -- 1945; Subcarpathian Rus (Carpathian Ruthenia), history; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Jewish yellow stars of David, Jewish badges and patches

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 109: RG-67.109, USHMM, Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus, selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers, ca. 1940

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex in Poland.

This particular photograph shows a group of women and children from the Subcarpathian Rus region, selected for death and awaiting entry into the gas chambers.

USHMM, Auschwitz-Birkenau, ca. 1940

Subject/Index Terms:: Subcarpathian Rus (Carpathian Ruthenia), history; Jewish yellow stars of David, Jewish badges and patches; Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Poland (Europe); Oświęcim (Poland); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 110: RG-67.110, USHMM, Jewish men from Subarpathian Rus having undergone selection are about to be gassed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, ca. 1940

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during the World War II era.

This particular photograph shows a group of elder Jewish men from the Subcarpathian Rus region after being selected to be gassed in the chambers on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

USHMM, Auschwitz-Birkenau, ca. 1940.

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photographs, Auschwitz concentration camp; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Jewish yellow stars of David, Jewish badges and patches; Photographs, Jewish men; Subcarpathian Rus (Carpathian Ruthenia), history; National Socialism, theory and regime; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Oświęcim (Poland); Poland (Europe); Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland: Concentration Camp)

Creators:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--); Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 111: RG-67.111, USHMM, Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau wait to be taken to the gas chambers, ca. 1940

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during the World War II era.

This photograph shows a group of elder Jewish men from the Subcarpathian Rus region, resting on the ground before being taken to the gas chambers.

Subject/Index Terms:: Photo-documents of the Holocaust; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Subcarpathian Rus (Carpathian Ruthenia), history; Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Oświęcim (Poland); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Poland (Europe); Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration and extermination camps; Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland: Concentration Camp); Photographs, Jewish men; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Photographs, concentration camps; Jewish yellow stars of David, Jewish badges and patches; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps

Creators:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--); Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 112: RG-67.112, USHNMM, Jewish women and children selected for death from Subcarpathian Rus walk toward Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers, ca. 1940

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland during the World War II era.

This particular photograph shows a group of Jewish women and children from the Subcarpathian Rus region, selected for death and walk towards the gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex.

Subject/Index Terms:: Photo-documents of the Holocaust; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Poland (Europe); Oświęcim (Poland); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Subcarpathian Rus (Carpathian Ruthenia), history; Photographs, Jewish women; Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland: Concentration Camp)

Creators:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--); Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 113: RG-67.113, USHMM, Jewish women from Subcarpathian Rus wait for further processing after disinfection and headshaving, ca. 1940

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at an unnamed concentration camp in Europe during the World War II era.

This particular document shows a large group of Jewish women from the Subcarpathian Rus region, awaiting their fate at an unnamed camp in Poland.

USHMM, ca. 1940

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Subcarpathian Rus (Carpathian Ruthenia), history; Photographs, Jewish women; Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners

Creators:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--); Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 114: RG-67.114, USHMM, Prisoners in the Aufraumungskommando unload confiscated property at a warehouse in Auschwitz-Birkenau, ca. 1940

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland during the World War II era.

This particular photograph shows a group of prisoners in the Aufraungskommando unloading confiscated property at a warehouse near the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.

USHMM, Auschwitz-Birkenau, ca. 1940

Subject/Index Terms:: Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland: Concentration Camp); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Oświęcim (Poland); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Prisoner luggage upon arrival at a concentration camp; Jewish personal belongings; Confiscation of personal belongings and property; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photographs, concentration camps; Photographs, concentration camp prisoners

Creators:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--); Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 115: RG-67.115, USHMM, Auschwitz women inmates sort huge pile of shoes from transport of Hungarian Jews, ca. 1940

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs from the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

This particular photograph shows a group of women sorting through a massive pile of shoes taken from a transport of Hungarian Jews.

USHMM, Auschwitz, ca. 1940

Subject/Index Terms:: Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland: Concentration Camp); Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration and extermination camps; Poland (Europe); Oświęcim (Poland); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; Hungarian Jews; Jewish personal belongings; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

Creators:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--); Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 116: RG-67.116, USHMM, Chiune Sugihara sits behind a desk in his office, ca. 1941

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

This particular photograph shows Chiune Sugihara, Japanese Vice-Counsel to the European nation of Lithuania. Sugihara is named among the "Righteous Among the Nations" for granting many European Jewish refugees a visa to visit Japan and escape from the brutalities of the Holocaust.

USHMM, Chiune Sugihara, ca. 1941

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Righteous Among the Nations; Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive; Sugihara, Chiune and Yukiko (Japanese diplomat and humanitarian); Japan (1936--1945); Lithuania (1941 -- 1945); Humanitarian and economic aid to the Jews of Eastern Europe in postwar time, 1945 -- 1949; Jews escape from German-occupied Europe, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 117: RG-67.117, USHMM, Three Jewish DPs look out window of train with homemade Zionist flag as they depart Buchenwald to Palestine, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken during the World War II era.

This particular photograph shows three Jewish displaced persons looking out the window of a train en route for Palestine departing from Buchenwald. One of the DPs carry a homemade Zionist flag.

USHMM, Palestine, ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Buchenwald (Germany: Concentration Camp), post-liberation photographs; displaced person camp, photographs; Displaced person camps in Germany; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Zionism, Jewish national movement; Palestine, British Mandate Territory (1918--1948); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Germany (Europe); DP camp, US occupied Germany; Jewish life; Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988

Creators:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--); Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 118: RG-67.118, USHMM, A young Jewish woman writes her last letter before boarding the deportation train to Chelmno, ca. 1940

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken during the World War II era.

This particular photograph shows a girl writing a parting letter before boarding a train departing to Chelmno extermination camp near Lodz, Poland.

USHMM, Chelmno, ca. 1940

Subject/Index Terms:: Chelmno (Poland: Extermination Center); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; Photographs, transports and deportations; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Jewish yellow stars of David, Jewish badges and patches; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--); Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 119: RG-67.119, USHMM, Female Aufraumungskommando sort the confiscated property of Jews at warehouse in Auschwitz-Birkenau, ca. 1940

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland during the World War II era.

This particular photograph shows a group of female Aufraumungskommando sorting confiscated property of Jews at a warehouse on the Auschwitz-Birkenau grounds.

USHMM, Auschwitz-Birkenau, ca. 1940

Subject/Index Terms:: Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland: Concentration Camp); Oświęcim (Poland); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Confiscation of personal belongings and property; Jewish personal belongings; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, concentration camps; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

Creators:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--); Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 120: RG-67.120, USHMM, A naked prisoner is led to an execution site in the Stutthof concentration camp, ca. 1940

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at Stutthof concentration camp in Germany during the World War II era.

This particular photograph shows a naked prisoner being escorted to an execution site by two guards at the Stutthof concentration camp.

USHMM, Stutthof, ca. 1940

Subject/Index Terms:: Europe (1939 -- 1945); Germany (Europe); Stutthof (Poland: Concentration Camp); Poland (Europe); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--); Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 121: RG-67.121, USHMM, Pile of abandoned shoes, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at various concentration camps in Europe during the World War II era.

This particular photograph shows a pile of abandoned/confiscated shoes from Jewish prisoners on arrival to an unknown concentration camp in Europe.

USHMM, ca. 1942.

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Confiscation of personal belongings and property; Jewish personal belongings; Europe (1939 -- 1945); Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945

Creators:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--); Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 122: RG-67.122, USHMM, The prisoners' orchestra in Buchenwald camp, ca. 1941

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

This particular photograph shows the prisoners' orchestra in formation at the Buchenwald camp.

USHMM, Buchenwald, ca. 1941.

Subject/Index Terms:: Buchenwald (Germany: concentration camp); Buchenwald (Germany: Concentration camp)--Complex of concentration camps; Orchestras, concentration camps; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Photographs, concentration camp prisoners; Photographs, concentration camps

Creators:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--); Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 123: RG-67.123, USHMM, View of the French village of Le Chambon sur Lignon, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken during the World War II era.

This particular photograph shows a hilltop view of the French village of Le Chambon sur Lignon. This village became infamous for its hiding of fleeing Jews from Nazi captors.

USHMM, Le Chambon sur Lignon, ca. 1942.

Subject/Index Terms:: Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (southern France); Refugees of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; Europe (1939 -- 1945); France (Europe); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; National Socialism, theory and regime; Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945

Creators:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--); Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 124: RG-67.124, USHMM, Juliette Usach and four boys sit beneath Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, ca. 1942

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs from Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in France.

This particular photograph shows a group of four boys and Juliette Usach, posing in front of a sign pointing to the French town of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. Juliette Usach was the owner of a children's home that took in Jewish refugees during the World War II era.

Juliette Usach, USHMM, ca. 1942.

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (southern France); France (1940--1945); Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Jewish refugees; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Usach, Juliette, head of the La Guespy children's home in Le Chambon sur Lignon, France; Righteous Among the Nations; Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive; Refugees of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; Europe (1939 -- 1945)

Creators:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--); Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 125: RG-67.125, USHMM, A female survivor at Bergen-Belsen, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany during the conclusion of the World War II era.

This particular photograph shows a female survivor from the Bergen-Belsen camp looking towards the photographer.

USHMM, Bergen-Belsen, ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Female concentration camp inmates; Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration Camp); Germany (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs; Aftermath of the liberation, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, photo-documents, May 1945; Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; survivors of concentration camps

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 126: RG-67.126, USHMM, Crematoria at Majdanek, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland.

This particular photograph shows the crematoria on the Majdanek camp complex.

USHMM, Majdanek, ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Majdanek (Poland: Concentration Camp); Lublin (Poland); Poland (Europe); Europe (1939 -- 1945); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Crematoria in the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; National Socialism, theory and regime; National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 127: RG-67.127, USHMM, Sobibor sign, ca. 1945

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection.

This particular photograph shows a sign that was used at the Sobibor concentration camp in Poland.

USHMM, Sobibor, ca. 1945

Subject/Index Terms:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); Sobibor (Poland: extermination camp); Poland (Europe); Concentration camp in Poland, 1933 -- 1945; Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps; Photo-documents of the Holocaust; National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945; Europe (1939 -- 1945)

Creators:: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--); Secondary Repositories

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 128: RG-67.128, USHMM, Varian Fry, ca. 1940

This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs of members of the Righteous Among the Nations.

This particular photographs is of Varian Fry, a man named Righteous Among the Nations, for his work to rescue French Jews in Vichy France.

USHMM, Varian Fry, ca. 1940

Subject/Index Terms:: Righteous Among the Nations; Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive; Fry, Varian (American journalist); United States (1939 -- 1945); Vichy Government, France, 1940 -- 1944; Europe (1939 -- 1945); France (1940--1945)

Creators:: Secondary Repositories; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) (1978--)

USHMM photo documents, 1933-1945

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