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Shoah
- The Einsatzgruppen
- The Einsatzgruppen were units sent to racially purify the Eastern European front for the Nazis. This map is a tally of some of their work. Source: Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression – Washington, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1946, p. 773.
Daily Life in the Camps
- Arrival
- Arrival at the train station at Auschwitz-Birkenau. SS select those for for work, while others are sent to the gas chambers.
- Source: Dachau Memorial Museum
A mother and children on their way to the gas chambers.
Source: Dachau Memorial Museum.
Source: Dachau Memorial Museum.
Source: Dachau Memorial Museum.
Source: Dachau Memorial Museum.
Quarry Workers
Source: Dachau Memorial Museum.
Source: Dachau Memorial Museum.
Source: Dachau Memorial Museum.
Source: Dachau Memorial Museum
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.
A mass grave in the Bergen-Belsen camp. Source: The Belsen Trial – Edited by R. Phillips, William Hodge and Company, 1949.
One of the cremation pits used to burn the victims of the gas chambers in Auschwitz. Used mainly in the summer of 1944 when extermination was going so fast that the furnaces couldn’t handle the 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 gas chambers – 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, before liberation, 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 been brought to be distributed and cheered the liberators.
- Source: Dachau Memorial Museum
- The Pain Lingers
- Liberation was not a 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
Still photograph from the Soviet Film of the liberation of Auschwitz, taken by the film unit of the First Ukrainian Front, shot over a period of several months beginning on January 27, 1945 by Alexander Voronzow and others in his group. Child survivors of Auschwitz, wearing adult-size prisoner jackets, stand behind a barbed wire fence. Among those pictured are Tomasz Szwarz; Alicja Gruenbaum; Solomon Rozalin; Gita Sztrauss; Wiera Sadler; Marta Wiess; Boro Eksztein; Josef Rozenwaser; Rafael Szlezinger; Gabriel Nejman; Adek Apfelbaum; Hillik (later Harold) Apfelbaum; Mark Berkowitz (a twin); Pesa Balter; Rut Muszkies (later Webber); Miriam Friedman; and twins Miriam Mozes and Eva Mozes wearing knitted hats.
