German Jews at forced labor in Dachau. Photo taken during an SS inspection. Dachau concentration camp, Germany, June 28, 1938.
Item ViewMain 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 ViewA section of the prisoner barracks in the Majdanek camp. Photograph taken after the liberation of the camp in July 1944. Poland, date uncertain.
Item ViewJews from the Lodz ghetto are loaded onto freight trains for deportation to the Chelmno killing center. Lodz, Poland, 1942–44.
Item ViewDeportation from the Westerbork transit camp. Members of the Jewish police are seen in the photograph. The Netherlands, 1943–44.
Item ViewForced labor in the quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, date uncertain.
Item ViewA sign outside the Breendonk transit camp warning that trespassers will be shot. Breendonk, Belgium, 1940-1944.
Item ViewShaving an inmate upon arrival at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Germany, February 1941.
Item ViewView through the barbed wire of the prisoner barracks in the Flossenbürg concentration camp. Flossenbürg, Germany, 1942.
Item ViewView of the Gurs camp as photographed from a water tower. Gurs, France, ca. 1941.
Item ViewView of the stone quarry in the Gross-Rosen camp, where prisoners were subjected to forced labor. Gross-Rosen, Germany, 1940-1945.
Item ViewJewish prisoners in the Drancy transit camp. France, between 1941 and 1944.
Item ViewExterior view of barracks at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Ravensbrueck, Germany, between May 1939 and April 1945.
Item ViewNewly arrived prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Buchenwald, Germany, 1938-1940.
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