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Yad Vashem photo documents, 1933-1945

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Collection Overview

Title: Yad Vashem photo documents, 1933-1945

Predominant Dates:1939 -- 1945

ID: RG-69/RG-69

Creator: official agencies and individual photographers (1938 -- 1940)

Extent: 1.0 Boxes

Languages: English [eng]

Abstract

This Collections contains duplicates of the Yad Vashem photo-documents. Copyrights are cleared.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection comprises photo-documents with regard to the History of the Holocaust

Box and Folder Listing

Document/Artifact of Item-Level 1: RG-69.01, Large group of women sitting on floor of building, 1939--1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a large group of women sitting on the floor of a building.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Photographs
Photo-documents, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
wartime photographs
Photographs, Jewish women
Liberation of concentration camps
Aftermath of liberation
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs
Physical conditions of the Nazi concentration camp prisoners after liberation, photo-documents
Creators:
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 2: RG-69.02, Aleksandr Pecherski, leader of the Sobibor Uprising, circa 1943Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A portrait of Aleksandr Percheski, the leader of the Sobibor Uprising.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Aleksandr Pecherski (Pechersky)
Alexander Pechrskij, Sobibor Revolt
Sobibor (Poland: extermination camp)
Sobibor Revolt
Sobibor uprising, October 1943
Photographs
Photo-documents, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
wartime photographs
Creators:
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 3: RG-69.04, Brzeziny, Poland, Deportation of Jews from the ghetto to Chelmno, May 1942Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of Jewish men being deportated from a Polish ghetto to Chelmno extermination camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Brzeziny (Poland)
Poland (1939--1945)
Deportations from ghettos
Deportation to concentration camps
Deportations to concentration camps
Deportation to the Chelmno complex of camps
Deportation from Brzeziny, Poland to the Chelmno complex of camps
Deportation from Brzeziny, Poland to the Chelmno complex of camps, photographs
Photographs
Photo-documents, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
wartime photographs
Photographs, ghettos
Deportation scenes
Roundups and Deportations of Jews
Roundups and Actions in the ghettos
Photographs, transports and deportations
Chelmno (Poland: Extermination Center)
Chelmno Death Camp
Creators:
Ghetto photographers (1939 --1945)
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 4: RG-69.05, Chelmno, Poland, A Jewish man with a Talith (prayer shawl) and Tefilin (phylacteries) standing between two German policemen, 1939--1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a Jewish man with a Talith (prayer shawl) and Tefilin (phylacteries) standing between two German policemen.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Chelmno (Poland: Extermination Center)
Chelmno complex of concentration camps (Poland)
Chelmno Death Camp
Auxiliary, non-German guards in concentration camps, Chelmno complex of camps, 1939 -- 1944
Auxiliary, non-German guards in concentration camps, Chelmno complex of camps, photographs
Auxiliary police forces, non-German, Second World War
Auxiliary police in Nazi-German concentration camps
German Police and Security forces, 1939 --1945
German police and security forces, Poland
Polish auxiliary police under German administration, 1939 -- 1945
Jewish religious objects
Religious Jews
Photographs
Photo-documents, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
wartime photographs
concentration camp photographs
Photographs, concentration camps
Photographs, concentration camp prisoners
Creators:
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 5: RG-69.06, Chelmno, Poland, German soldiers guarding victims alighting a train at Chelmno extermination camp, 1939--1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of German soldiers observing as prisoners board a train going to Chelmno extermination camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Transport trains
Chelmno (Poland: Extermination Center)
Chelmno complex of concentration camps (Poland)
Chelmno Death Camp
German Soldiers
Soldiers, German
German Police and Security forces, 1939 --1945
German police and security forces, Poland
German occupation of Poland
German occupation regime in General Government (Poland), 1939 -- 1945
Deportation scenes
Roundups and Deportations of Jews
Roundups and Actions in the ghettos
Poland (1939--1945)
Deportation to concentration camps
Deportations to concentration camps
Deportation to the Chelmno complex of camps
Photographs
Photo-documents, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
wartime photographs
Photographs, transports and deportations
Creators:
German Military Photographers (1939-1945)
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 6: RG-69.07, Chelmno, Poland, auxiliary guard unit, playing music, 1939--1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of an auxiliary guard unit in Chelmno, Poland playing music.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Musicology and performance
Chelmno (Poland: Extermination Center)
Chelmno complex of concentration camps (Poland)
Chelmno Death Camp
Auxiliary police forces, non-German, Second World War
German occupation of Poland
Poland (1939--1945)
Photographs
Photo-documents, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
wartime photographs
Creators:
German Military Photographers (1939-1945)
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 7: RG-69.08, Six German soldiers standing inside armored railroad car, 1939--1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of six German soldiers standing inside an armored railroad car.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
German Soldiers
Soldiers, German
German Railroad and Railways
Military Comradeship, German Army, 1933 -- 1945
Military service in Nazi Germany, in Wehrmacht, 1939 -- 1945
Military Uniforms (Nazi-German)
Nazi-German military campaigns in the Second World War, 1939 -- 1945
Nazi German Army, 1939 -- 1945
Wehrmacht, Nazi -German Army, 1939 -- 1945
Photographs
Photo-documents, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
wartime photographs
military photographs, German, 1920 -- 1945
Military units, German, photographs, 1933 -- 1945
Creators:
German Military Photographers (1939-1945)
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 8: RG-69.09, Five German Officers stand near armored railroad car, 1939--1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of five German officers standing near armed railroad cars.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
German Soldiers
Military officers, Nazi-German
Soldiers, German
German Railroad and Railways
Military Comradeship, German Army, 1933 -- 1945
Military service in Nazi Germany, in Wehrmacht, 1939 -- 1945
Military Uniforms (Nazi-German)
Nazi-German military campaigns in the Second World War, 1939 -- 1945
Nazi German Army, 1939 -- 1945
Wehrmacht, Nazi -German Army, 1939 -- 1945
Photographs
Photo-documents, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
wartime photographs
military photographs, German, 1920 -- 1945
Military units, German, photographs, 1933 -- 1945
Creators:
German Military Photographers (1939-1945)
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 9: RG-69.10, Franz Paul Stangl, The commander of Sobibor, circa 1942Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of Franz Paul Stangl, the commander of Sobibor from March to September, 1942.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Franz Paul Stangl, Commandant of Sobibor complex of camps
Franz Paul Stangl, Commandant of Sobibor complex of camps, photographs
Sobibor complex of concentration camps, commandants
Sobibor complex of concentration camps, commandants, photographs
Sobibor (Poland: extermination camp)
Operation Reinhard (Aktion Reinhard or Einsatz Reinhard), 1942
Forced labor
Forced labor camps
Forced labor in concentration camps
Forced laborers, Jewish, 1933 -- 1945
Auxiliary police forces, non-German, Second World War
Concentration camp, commandants, 1933 -- 1945
Photographs
Photo-documents, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
wartime photographs
Creators:
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 10: RG-69.11, Gisi Fleischman, A Zionist activist in Slovakia, a leader of WIZO and Pracovna Skupina (Working Group)., 1939--1944Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of Gisi Fleischmann, a Zionist activist in Slovakia.  She was also a leader of WIZO and Pracovna Skupina (Working Group).
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Gisi Flieschman, Pracovna Skupina (Working Group), rescue of Jews, 1942 -- 1944
Gisi Fleischman, Pracovna Skupina (Working Group), photographs
Zionistic politics
Zionist activities
Slovakia (1939--1945)
Slovakia (Europe)
Aid and rescue during the war
Rescue and aid in the Holocaust
Rescue effort to save Jews in Europe, 1939 -- 1945
Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO)
Pracovna Skupina (Working Group), Jewish organization for rescue
Photographs
Photo-documents, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
wartime photographs
Creators:
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 11: RG-69.12, Majdanek, Poland, A pile of victims clothes, 1944Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a pile of victims clothes, taken in Majdanek, Poland.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Majdanek (Poland: Concentration Camp)
Majdanek (Concentration camp)
Majdanek, German concentration camp
Majdanek concentration camp, liberation
Liberation of Majdanek concentration camp
Afterwards of the liberation of Majdanek concentration camp, 1944
Afterwards of the liberation of Majdanek concentration camp, photographs
Liberation of concentration camps
Liberation from German concentration camps
liberation of Nazi concentration camps, Europe
Nazi-German concentration camps after liberation, photographs
Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation
Aftermath of liberation
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs
Photographs
Photo-documents, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
wartime photographs
Creators:
Post-liberation photographers (1944-1945)
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 12: RG-69.13, Sobibor, Poland, Remains of the fence at the north end of the camp., 1974Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of Sobibor, Poland taken in 1974, showing the remains of the fence at the north end of the camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Sobibor (Poland: extermination camp)
Aftermath of liberation
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation
Photographs
Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
Postwar photographs
Poland (1945--1991)
postwar Poland
English, language
Documents in English language
Creators:
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 13: RG-69.14, Sobibor, Poland, The site of the gas chambers, 1974Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of Sobibor, Poland taken in 1974, showing the site where the gas chambers once stood.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Nazi gas chambers
Sobibor (Poland: extermination camp)
Aftermath of liberation
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation
Poland (1945--1991)
postwar Poland
English, language
Documents in English language
Photographs
Postwar photographs
Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
Creators:
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 14: RG-69.15, Sobibor, Poland, A monument in the camp, circa 1965Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of the original monument for the Sobibor death camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Sobibor death camp memorial
Sobibor concentration camp, memorial site
Sobibor concentration camp, memorial site, photographs
Sobibor (Poland: extermination camp)
Aftermath of liberation
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs
Poland (1945--1991)
postwar Poland
Photographs
Postwar photographs
Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
Creators:
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 15: RG-69.16, Sobibor, Poland, A party of the camps staff, 1939--1945Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of the Sobibor death camp staff having a party.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Auxiliary, non-German guards in concentration camps, 1939 -- 1945
Auxiliary police forces, non-German, Second World War
Polish auxiliary police under German administration, 1939 -- 1945
Concentration Camp Guards
Sobibor (Poland: extermination camp)
Sobibor complex of concentration camps, commandants
Sobibor complex of concentration camps, commandants, photographs
Poland (1939--1945)
Photographs
Photo-documents, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
Photographs, wartime, 1939 -- 1945
wartime photographs
Creators:
Polish photographer (circa 1933--1945)
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 16: RG-69.17, Sobibor, Poland, Train tracks where the camp once stood, circa 1974Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of the train tracks beside where the Sobibor concentration camp once stood.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Sobibor (Poland: extermination camp)
Aftermath of liberation
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs
Poland (1945--1991)
postwar Poland
Photographs
Postwar photographs
Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
Creators:
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 17: RG-69.18, Treblinka, Poland, a general view of the camp, 1960Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of where the Treblinka extermination camp once stood.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Treblinka (Poland)
Treblinka (Poland: extermination camp)
Treblinka, the site of the former extermination camp
Aftermath of liberation
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs
Poland (1945--1991)
postwar Poland
Photographs
Postwar photographs
Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
Creators:
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 18: RG-69.19, Trostenets, Belorussia, A pile of burnt bodies in a concentration camp, circa 1944Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of a pile of burnt bodies after the liberation of the Maly Trostenets extermination camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Maly Trostenets (USSR: extermination camp)
Maly Trostenets extermination camp (Reichskommissariat Ostland)
Maly Trostenets, extermination camp, afterwards of the liberation
Maly Trostenets, extermination camp, afterwards of the liberation, photographs
Mass executions
Cremation
Aftermath of liberation
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs
Liberation of concentration camps
Belorussia (1939-1945)
Photographs
Postwar photographs
Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
Nazi-German concentration camps after liberation, photographs
Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation
Creators:
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 19: RG-69.20, Trostenets, Belorussia, Russian officers inspecting a crematorium in a concentration camp, circa 1944Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of Russian officers inspecting a crematorium after the liberation of the Maly Trostenets concentration camp.
Subject/Index Terms:
Liberation of concentration camps
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation
Aftermath of liberation
Crematoria in the Nazi-German concentration camps
Concentration Camp Crematorium
Maly Trostenets, extermination camp, afterwards of the liberation, photographs
Maly Trostenets, extermination camp, afterwards of the liberation
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Maly Trostenets (USSR: extermination camp)
Maly Trostenets extermination camp (Reichskommissariat Ostland)
Post-Liberation
liberation of Nazi concentration camps, Europe
Belorussia, USSR
Belorussia (1939-1945)
Photographs
Postwar photographs
Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
Nazi-German concentration camps after liberation, photographs
Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation
Creators:
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)
Document/Artifact of Item-Level 20: RG-69.21, Trostenets, Belorussia, Russian officers inspecting a crematorium in a concentration camp, circa 1944Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
A photograph of Soviet officers inspecting a crematorium in Maly Trostenets after liberation.
Subject/Index Terms:
Yad Vashem, Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority, museum and archive
Department for the Righteous of Yad Vashem
Maly Trostenets (USSR: extermination camp)
Maly Trostenets, extermination camp, afterwards of the liberation
Maly Trostenets, extermination camp, afterwards of the liberation, photographs
Maly Trostenets extermination camp (Reichskommissariat Ostland)
Concentration Camp Crematorium
Crematoria in the Nazi-German concentration camps
Aftermath of liberation
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation
Aftermath of Nazi-German concentration camp liberation, photographs
Liberation of concentration camps
Post-Liberation
liberation of Nazi concentration camps, Europe
Belorussia, USSR
Belorussia (1939-1945)
Photographs
Postwar photographs
Photographs, postwar, 1945 -- 1988
Nazi-German concentration camps after liberation, photographs
Photographs, concentration camps post-liberation
Creators:
Yad Vashem, Holocaust Remembrance Authority (1953 -- present)