Transcript Photo Exhibit Pictures

German Jewish children in Berlin prior to the Nazi seizure of power.
January 1929.
Chancellor Adolf Hitler and President Paul von Hindenburg.
Potsdam, Germany, March 21, 1933.
The Reichstag (German parliament) building burns in Berlin.
Germany, February 27, 1933.
SA pickets, wearing boycott signs, block the entrance to a Jewish-owned shop.
Germany, April 1st,1933.
A German man is publicly humiliated for violating race taboos. He is forced to march
down the street with a sign reading: “I am a defiler of the race.”
Norden, Germany, July 1935.
Nazi Party Congress
Nuremberg, Germany, September 1938
A woman who is concealing her face sits on a park bench marked "Only for Jews."
Austria, ca. March 1938
A synagogue destroyed during Kristallnacht (the "Night of Broken Glass").
Baden-Baden, Germany, November 10, 1938.
Jews wait in line at the Margarethen police station for exit visas.
Vienna, Austria, March 1938.
German soldiers march into Warsaw carrying bayonets.
Warsaw, Poland, October 5, 1939.
Street scene from the early Warsaw ghetto.
Warsaw, Poland, 1940.
Children eating in the ghetto streets.
Warsaw, Poland, between 1940 and 1943.
Murder of the disabled: Smoke rising from the chimney at Hadamar, one of six
facilities which carried out the Nazis’ “Euthanasia” program.
Hadamar, Germany, circa 1941.
A man kneels before a mass grave during an execution of
Ukrainian Jews by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units).
Vinnitsa, Soviet Union, 1941-1943.
Deportation of German Roma (Gypsies).
Hohenasperg, Germany, May 18, 1940.
Hungarian Jews undergo a selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Poland, May 1944.
A Jewish woman walks toward the gas chambers with three young children after
going through the selection process on the ramp at Aushwitz-Birkenau.
May 1944
Victims of Dr. Josef Mengele's medical experiments at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Poland, 1944.
Roll call in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Buchenwald, Germany, 1938-1941.
Former prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp on the bunks in the barracks.
Buchenwald, Germany, April 1945.
American soldiers in front of corpses of Ohrdruf concentration camp inmates.
Ohrdruf, Germany, April 1945.
Photograph secretly taken by the Jewish
Sonderkommando in AuschwitzBirkenau, showing the burning of bodies
in open pits.
Poland, Summer 1944.
Some of the thousands of shoes confiscated from arriving prisoners at
the Majdanek concentration camp.
Danish fishermen used this boat to carry Jews to safety in Sweden during the German occupation.
Denmark, 1943 or 1944.
Jewish partisans in Naliboki forest, near Novogrudok.
Poland, 1942 or 1943.
Polish partisans are hanged by the Nazis.
Rovno, Poland, 1942.
A view of concentration camp prisoners marching through a village while on a
death march from Dachau to Wolfratshausen.
Germany, April 1945.
Mauthausen survivors cheer the soldiers of the Eleventh Armored Division of the
U.S. Third Army one day after their actual liberation.
Austria, May 1945.
View of the defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal trial
of war criminals at Nuremberg.
Nuremberg, Germany, November 1945-1946.
Group portrait of Jewish displaced persons aboard the Altalena,
an immigrant ship bound for Israel.
June 1948.