![Jews from the Lodz ghetto are loaded onto freight trains for deportation to the Chelmno killing center. [LCID: 02625]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/b0c33a6f-ea68-4dd1-bbc4-d79da6aac694.jpg "Jews from the Lodz ghetto are loaded onto freight trains for deportation to the Chelmno killing center. [LCID: 02625]")
Jews from the Lodz ghetto are loaded onto freight trains for deportation to the Chelmno killing center. Lodz, Poland, 1942–44.
Item View![Zyklon B pellets found at the liberation of the Majdanek camp. [LCID: 8507]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/b1bebb35-1e53-4a1a-b185-8c800c0bd8e3.jpg "Zyklon B pellets found at the liberation of the Majdanek camp. [LCID: 8507]")
Zyklon B pellets found at the liberation of the Majdanek camp. Poland, after July 1944.
Item View![After the liberation of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, two US army infantrymen examine a pile of shoes belonging to victims ... [LCID: 77028]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/fa833e5e-1cdc-4288-acc4-35947845b98a.jpg "After the liberation of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, two US army infantrymen examine a pile of shoes belonging to victims ... [LCID: 77028]")
After the liberation of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, two US army infantrymen examine a pile of shoes belonging to victims of the camp. Flossenbürg, Germany, May 1945.
Item View![The valuables displayed here were confiscated from prisoners by German guards at the Buchenwald concentration camp and later found ... [LCID: 0230]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/1144e26b-94cd-47a2-9b17-ca09c4dc116a.jpg "The valuables displayed here were confiscated from prisoners by German guards at the Buchenwald concentration camp and later found ... [LCID: 0230]")
The valuables displayed here were confiscated from prisoners by German guards at the Buchenwald concentration camp and later found by soldiers of the Third US Army after the liberation of the camp. Buchenwald, Germany, after April 1945.
Item View![Soviet officials view stacked corpses of victims at the Klooga camp. [LCID: 03182]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/1b5fdac0-12f8-4944-923a-e40028e43357.jpg "Soviet officials view stacked corpses of victims at the Klooga camp. [LCID: 03182]")
Soviet officials view stacked corpses of victims at the Klooga camp. Due to the rapid advance of Soviet forces, the Germans did not have time to burn the corpses. Klooga, Estonia, 1944.
Item View![Dr. Fritz Klein, a former camp doctor who conducted medical experiments on prisoners, stands among corpses in a mass grave. [LCID: 13054]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/38e1d2d7-ccc8-467a-85b1-d3443ebdd6cf.jpg "Dr. Fritz Klein, a former camp doctor who conducted medical experiments on prisoners, stands among corpses in a mass grave. [LCID: 13054]")
Dr. Fritz Klein stands among corpses in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen, after the liberation of the camp. He was required to assist in the burial of inmates who died there. Klein was a camp doctor at both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Germany, after April 15, 1945.
Item View![Two survivors at one of the human-ash pits in the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, located near Nordhausen. [LCID: 01280]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/928b512b-e38a-402f-8acc-e2431734e210.jpg "Two survivors at one of the human-ash pits in the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, located near Nordhausen. [LCID: 01280]")
Two survivors at one of the human-ash pits in the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, located near Nordhausen. Germany, April-May 1945.
Item View![Human remains found in the Dachau concentration camp crematorium after liberation. [LCID: 0315]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/97eaf954-6948-417a-a89a-d4ab44ffab2a.jpg "Human remains found in the Dachau concentration camp crematorium after liberation. [LCID: 0315]")
Human remains found in the Dachau concentration camp crematorium after liberation. Germany, April 1945.
Item View![Main entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. [LCID: 90326]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/0bbfdaca-ef0e-4bf3-afdc-250a30f35f8c.jpg "Main entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. [LCID: 90326]")
Main entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. This photograph was taken some time after the liberation of the camp in January 1945. Poland, date uncertain.
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![Generals Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley view corpses of inmates at Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald. [LCID: 10315]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/d5c8ae20-5cdd-4664-a513-0bc6e3477ef4.jpg "Generals Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley view corpses of inmates at Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald. [LCID: 10315]")