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Prisoners at forced labor. Photo taken during an SS inspection. [LCID: 11251a] — German Jews at forced labor in Dachau. Photo taken during an SS inspection. Dachau concentration camp, Germany, June 28, 1938.
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View of barracks in the Majdanek camp. Poland, date uncertain. [LCID: 73996] — A section of the prisoner barracks in the Majdanek camp. Photograph taken after the liberation of the camp in July 1944. Poland, date uncertain.
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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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The inside of a large factory with tables in rows. Rows of prisoners sit on one side of the tables and work on materials in front of them. — Prisoners at forced labor in the Siemens factory. Auschwitz camp, Poland, 1940–44.
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Assembly line where forced laborers manufactured V-bombs at the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, near Nordhausen. [LCID: 13077] — Assembly line where prisoners were forced to manufacture V-bombs at the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, near Nordhausen. Germany, April-May 1945.
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Forced labor in the quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 12352] — Prisoners at forced labor in the quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, date uncertain.
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Prisoners work in an armaments factory. Dachau concentration camp, Germany, between 1940 and 1945. [LCID: 46483a] — Prisoners work in an armaments factory. Dachau concentration camp, Germany, between 1940 and 1945.
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Prisoners at forced labor under SS guard in an armaments factory. [LCID: 6005] — Prisoners at forced labor under SS guard in an armaments factory. Dachau concentration camp, Germany, 1943.
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Forced labor in a workshop in the Monowitz camp. [LCID: 78607] — Forced labor in a workshop in the Monowitz camp, part of the Auschwitz camp complex. Poland, between 1941 and January 1945.
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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.
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Deportation from the Westerbork transit camp. The Netherlands, 1943–1944. [LCID: 01340] — Deportation from the Westerbork transit camp. Members of the Jewish police are seen in the photograph. The Netherlands, 1943–44.
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Forced labor in the quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 18229] — Forced labor in the quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, date uncertain.
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Newly arrived prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp. [LCID: 13128] — Newly arrived prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Buchenwald, Germany, 1938-1940.
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Exterior view of barracks at the Ravensbrueck concentration camp. [LCID: 15010] — Exterior view of barracks at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Ravensbrueck, Germany, between May 1939 and April 1945.
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Jewish prisoners in the Drancy camp. France, between 1941 and 1944. [LCID: 19112a] — Jewish prisoners in the Drancy transit camp. France, between 1941 and 1944.
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View of the stone quarry in the Gross-Rosen camp, where prisoners were subjected to forced labor. [LCID: 55760] — View of the stone quarry in the Gross-Rosen camp, where prisoners were subjected to forced labor. Gross-Rosen, Germany, 1940-1945.
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View of the Gurs camp as photographed from a water tower. [LCID: 03100] — View of the Gurs camp as photographed from a water tower. Gurs, France, ca. 1941.
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View, through the barbed wire, of the prisoner barracks in the Flossenbürg concentration camp. [LCID: 06012] — View through the barbed wire of the prisoner barracks in the Flossenbürg concentration camp. Flossenbürg, Germany, 1942.
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Shaving an inmate at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. [LCID: 19376] — Shaving an inmate upon arrival at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Germany, February 1941.
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A sign outside the Breendonk transit camp warning that trespassers will be shot. [LCID: 10348] — A sign outside the Breendonk transit camp warning that trespassers will be shot. Breendonk, Belgium, 1940-1944.
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An individual with light skin tone in a striped uniform hangs by a chest harness with various medical instruments attached in a mostly clear chamber. Their head has fallen forward. — A prisoner in a compression chamber loses consciousness before dying during a medical experiment simulating high altitudes. Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 1942.
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