<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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  • Polish-Jewish refugees seeking to leave Europe arrive in Lisbon

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    Polish-Jewish refugees seeking to leave Europe arrive in Lisbon. Following the German invasion of France, Jewish and non-Jewish refugee assistance organizations relocated their headquarters to Lisbon, the only neutral European port from which refugees could depart to North and South America. Lisbon, Portugal, June 21-22, 1940.

    Polish-Jewish refugees seeking to leave Europe arrive in Lisbon
  • Political prisoners at Oranienburg

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    Arrival of political prisoners at the Oranienburg concentration camp. Oranienburg, Germany, 1933.

    Political prisoners at Oranienburg
  • Portrait of a boarding school class in which a Jewish boy was hidden

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    Class photograph of students at the San Leone Magno Fratelli Maristi boarding school in Rome. Pictured in the top row at the far right is Zigmund Krauthamer, a Jewish child who was being hidden at the school. Rome, Italy, 1943–44.

    Portrait of a boarding school class in which a Jewish boy was hidden
  • Portrait of a preschool class in Copenhagen, Denmark

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    Portrait of a preschool class in Copenhagen. Gus Goldenburger (top row, second from left) was one of the few Jewish students in the class. His family moved to Denmark from Czechoslovakia, fearing the rising tide of Nazism. When the Nazis planned to deport Danish Jewry, the Goldenburgers managed to escape to Sweden, where they remained until the end of the war. After the war, the Goldenburgers returned to Copenhagen. Photograph taken in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1938–1939.

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    Portrait of a preschool class in Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Portrait of an unidentified family in Bitola

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    Portrait of an unidentified family of eight adults and three children in Bitola. This photograph was one of the individual and family portraits of members of the Jewish community of Bitola, Macedonia, used by Bulgarian occupation authorities to register the Jewish population prior to its deportation in March 1943.

    Portrait of an unidentified family in Bitola
  • Portrait of Aron's family on his mother's side

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    Portrait of Aron's family on his mother's side, taken when Aron's cousin moved to Israel in 1933-1934. Aron is seated second from left, bottom row. His mother, Miriam, is in the center row, second from right. Aron's father is behind her and to her right. Aron himself was 8 or 9 years old when this picture was taken in either May or June. At the time, Aron recalled, "I was thinking about going to summer camp." Slonim, Poland, 1933-1934.

    Portrait of Aron's family on his mother's side
  • Portrait of Arthur Greiser

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    Arthur Greiser, a leading Nazi Party official in Danzig. He became the head of the Danzig Senate in 1934. After the beginning of World War II, he became administrator of the new province known as the Warthegau.

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    Portrait of Arthur Greiser
  • Portrait of Asael Bielski

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    Portrait of Asael Bielski, a founder of the Bielski brothers' Jewish partisan unit in Naliboki forest. He was killed on the Soviet front in 1944. Novogrudok, Poland, before 1941.

    Portrait of Asael Bielski
  • Portrait of author and actor Robert T. Odeman

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    Portrait of Robert T. Odeman, author and actor who was imprisoned in 1937 for 27 months for homosexuality. In 1942, he was deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp where he was a prisoner for three years. Berlin, Germany, before 1937.

    Portrait of author and actor Robert T. Odeman
  • Portrait of Benjamin Meed

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    Portrait of Benjamin Meed, leading advocate for Jewish Holocaust survivors and a founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 

    Portrait of Benjamin Meed

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