<p>A transport of Jewish prisoners forced to march through the snow from the Bauschovitz train station to <a href="/narrative/5386">Theresienstadt</a>. Czechoslovakia, 1942.</p>

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  • Photograph showing Kurt, Helene Reik's son, and his wife, on vacation in Croatia

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    Photograph showing Kurt, Helene Reik's son, and his wife, while on vacation in April/May 1938 in Kupari, Croatia. After her deportation to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, Helene yearned to record what was happening to her. This photograph was sent to Helene, who used it as paper for her diary in Theresienstadt. Helene’s makeshift diary offers wistful memories of her husband and parents who died before the war, loving thoughts of her family who had left Europe in 1939, and a firsthand…

    Photograph showing Kurt, Helene Reik's son, and his wife, on vacation in Croatia
  • Photograph showing Kurt, Helene Reik's son, holding his baby Margarida

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    Photograph showing Kurt, Helene Reik's son, holding his baby Margarida, in Rio de Janeiro in 1940. After her deportation to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, Helene yearned to record what was happening to her. This photograph was sent to Helene, who used it as paper for her diary in Theresienstadt. Helene’s makeshift diary offers wistful memories of her husband and parents who died before the war, loving thoughts of her family who had left Europe in 1939, and a firsthand account of the…

    Photograph showing Kurt, Helene Reik's son, holding his baby Margarida
  • Photograph showing Margarida, Helene Reik's granddaughter, in Brazil

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    Photograph showing Margarida, Helene Reik's granddaughter, playing on a field in Teresopolis, Brazil, in April 1940. After her deportation to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, Helene yearned to record what was happening to her. This photograph was sent to Helene, who used it as paper for her diary in Theresienstadt. Helene’s makeshift diary offers wistful memories of her husband and parents who died before the war, loving thoughts of her family who had left Europe in 1939, and a firsthand…

    Photograph showing Margarida, Helene Reik's granddaughter, in Brazil
  • Photograph taken at Esther Salsitz's marriage

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    Photograph taken at the marriage of Esther Salsitz and her fiance. Esther's parents, Norman and Amalie, stand at left and right (respectively). June 19, 1977. With the end of World War II and collapse of the Nazi regime, survivors of the Holocaust faced the daunting task of rebuilding their lives. With little in the way of financial resources and few, if any, surviving family members, most eventually emigrated from Europe to start their lives again. Between 1945 and 1952, more than 80,000 Holocaust…

    Photograph taken at Esther Salsitz's marriage
  • Photograph taken in May 1915 of Helene Reik's children

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    Photograph taken in May 1915 of Helene Reik's children. After her deportation to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, Helene yearned to record what was happening to her. This photograph was sent to Helene, who used it as paper for her diary in Theresienstadt. Helene’s makeshift diary offers wistful memories of her husband and parents who died before the war, loving thoughts of her family who had left Europe in 1939, and a firsthand account of the illness and hospitalization that ultimately…

    Photograph taken in May 1915 of Helene Reik's children
  • Photojournalists covering the trial of John Demjanjuk

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    Members of the press during the trial of John Demjanjuk. Jerusalem, Israel, March 18, 1987.

    Photojournalists covering the trial of John Demjanjuk
  • Pierre Laval

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    Pierre Laval, head of the government of Vichy France and Nazi collaborator. Shown here delivering a radio address. France, 1941–42.

    Pierre Laval
  • Pius XII

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    Pius XII, pope from 1939 to 1958. Vatican City, 1939.

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    Pius XII
  • Plundering of the Institute for Sexual Science

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    A newspaper clipping with the headline "Against the Un-German Spirit" announces the plundering of the Institute for Sexual Science. The photo shows students marching to the institute's entrance before the looting began on May 6, 1933. The institute's books and documents were among those targeted during the Nazi book burnings. 

    Plundering of the Institute for Sexual Science
  • Poles walk among the ruins of besieged Warsaw

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    Poles walk among the ruins of besieged Warsaw. This photograph documenting war destruction was taken by Julien Bryan (1899-1974), a documentary filmmaker who filmed and photographed the everyday life and culture of individuals and communities in various countries around the globe.

    Poles walk among the ruins of besieged Warsaw

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