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Shoah
- The Einsatzgruppen
- The Einsatzgruppen were units sent to racially purifythe Eastern European front for the Nazis. This map is a tally of some of theirwork. Source: Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression – Washington, U.S. Govt. PrintingOffice, 1946, p. 773.
Daily Life in the Camps
- Arrival
- Arrival at the train station atAuschwitz-Birkenau. SS select those for for work, while others are sent to thegas chambers. Source: Dachau Memorial Museum
A mother and children ontheir way to the gas chambers. Source: Dachau Memorial Museum.Roll CallMorning count of the prisoners. Source: Dachau Memorial Museum.
Source: Dachau Memorial Museum.
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Dachau Memorial Museum.
Dachau Memorial Museum.
Source: Dachau Memorial Museum.
Source: Dachau Memorial Museum.
Source: Dachau MemorialMuseum.
Shot while attempting to escape
Source: Dachau Memorial Museum.
The Horror
- Execution
- Source: The Good Old Days -E. Klee, W. Dressen, V. Riess, The Free Press, NY, 1988.
Belsen
A mass grave in the Bergen-Belsen camp. Source: The Belsen Trial – Edited by R. Phillips, William Hodge and Company, 1949.
Pit at Auschwitz
One of the cremation pits usedto burn the victims of the gas chambers in Auschwitz. Used mainly in the summerof 1944 when extermination was going so fast that the furnaces couldn’t handlethe number of corpses. The photo was taken by a member of the camp’s resistance (a member of a sonderkommando). This is one of only two images of Auschwitz taken by prisoners known to exist.Source: Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gaschambers – J.C. Pressac, the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, NY, 1989
Later Art: A. Paul Weber
- Source: A. Paul Weber, Hamburg,and the Dachau Memorial Museum.
“How with the wolves if you must” 1943
Liberation
- Evacuation March
- April 26, 1945, beforeliberation, a march from Dachau, secretly photographed. Source: Dachau Memorial Museum
- Death before Liberation
- This was found on April 28, 1945, the day before Dachau was liberated.Source: Dachau Memorial Museum
- Survivors
- Those who made it greeted the liberators. Source: Dachau Memorial Museum
- Liberated Children Cheer
- Ironically,there were no children in Dachau usually. These Russian children had beenbrought to be distributed and cheered the liberators. Source: Dachau MemorialMuseum
- The Pain Lingers
- Liberation was nota joyous event, just an end. Source: Dachau Memorial Museum
- Two Girls
- Their faces look into history. Source: Dachau Memorial Museum
- Memorial at Yad Vashem
- In honor of those who fought for freedom and those who didn’t make it. Source: The Write Thing