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Two German Jewish women wearing the compulsory Jewish badge. Germany, September 27, 1941.
Jews in the German town of Kitzingen, northwest of Munich, assembled for deportation. Kitzingen, Germany, March 1942.
Deportation of the last Jewish inhabitants of Hohenlimburg, the Lowenstein and Meyberg families. Germany, April 23, 1942.
Deportation of German Jews from the train station in Hanau to Theresienstadt. Hanau, Germany, May 30, 1942.
Deportation of Jews from Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, to the Theresienstadt ghetto. Hanau, Germany, May 30, 1942.
Scene during the deportation of German Jews to Theresienstadt ghetto. Jewish deportees from the Hanau, Gelnhausen and Schluechtern districts wait with their luggage on the platform at the Hanau station before boarding the deportation train. Hanau, Germany, May 30, 1942.
Departure of a train of German Jews being deported to Theresienstadt. Hanau, Germany, May 30, 1942.
Rail tracks at the Putlitz Street railroad station in Berlin. Jews were deported from this station. Berlin, Germany, date uncertain.
Deportation of Jews to Riga, Latvia. Bielefeld, Germany, December 13, 1941.
German Jews, wearing identification tags, before deportation to Theresienstadt. Wiesbaden, Germany, August 1942.
Deportation of the Jews of Würzburg. Germany, 1942.
A Jewish couple wearing the mandatory Jewish badge walks along a street in a German city. Germany, September 27, 1941.
An elderly German Jewish woman wearing the compulsory Jewish badge. Berlin, Germany, September 27, 1941.
Deportation of German Jews to France, where Vichy officials would intern them in the Gurs camp (in southwestern France). Gailingen, Germany, October 1940.
Jewish women deported from Bremen, Germany, are forced to dig a trench at the train station. Minsk, Soviet Union, 1941. (Source record ID: E9 NW 33/IV/2)
The Jews of Lodz move into the ghetto in March 1940.
Jews in the town of Coesfeld, in northwestern Germany, assembled for deportation to the Riga ghetto. Coesfeld, Germany, December 10, 1941.
Deportation of Jews from Bielefeld in Germany to Riga in Latvia. Bielefeld, Germany, December 13, 1941.
Deportation of German Jews from Hanau to Theresienstadt. Hanau, Germany, May 30, 1942.
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