![Prisoners at forced labor. Photo taken during an SS inspection. [LCID: 11251a]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/aac24d14-505d-4c39-aa1f-3e84a7d79f4f.jpg "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.
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.
Item View![View of barracks in the Majdanek camp. Poland, date uncertain. [LCID: 73996]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/ecf3c119-e5b1-43b5-9b64-ab938be77dc4.jpg "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.
Item View![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![Deportation from the Westerbork transit camp. The Netherlands, 1943–1944. [LCID: 01340]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/537e1204-e855-4530-b16d-fe9715cee89a.jpg "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.
Item View![Forced labor in the quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 18229]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/6b229b95-cb79-4fd4-b39e-4dd4cb8daafe.jpg "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.
Item View![A sign outside the Breendonk transit camp warning that trespassers will be shot. [LCID: 10348]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/dfb5e077-8bd3-4104-bfc9-c91ae27e183c.jpg "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.
Item View![Shaving an inmate at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. [LCID: 19376]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/3a473f06-b58a-4fb9-ae84-b1f265d7d6d0.jpg "Shaving an inmate at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. [LCID: 19376]")
Shaving an inmate upon arrival at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Germany, February 1941.
Item View![View, through the barbed wire, of the prisoner barracks in the Flossenbürg concentration camp. [LCID: 06012]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/779d6bbc-6987-4d11-a97a-56ebc2aa47fe.jpg "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.
Item View![View of the Gurs camp as photographed from a water tower. [LCID: 03100]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/d39b6d11-a709-4102-96b1-1713bac89079.jpg "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.
Item View![View of the stone quarry in the Gross-Rosen camp, where prisoners were subjected to forced labor. [LCID: 55760]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/69eeea0c-ac0c-42ff-8ddb-bf8457bf46cd.jpg "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.
Item View![Jewish prisoners in the Drancy camp. France, between 1941 and 1944. [LCID: 19112a]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/b5e47153-b136-4076-8f9f-862e1a73cca3.jpg "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.
Item View![Exterior view of barracks at the Ravensbrueck concentration camp. [LCID: 15010]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/b8c65312-574b-476d-ab22-f5dfc45d3f1f.jpg "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.
Item View![Newly arrived prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp. [LCID: 13128]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/441a8649-0f34-4198-9435-64deb7a7eb7d.jpg "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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