<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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  • Portrait of Georg Duckwitz

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    Portrait of Georg Duckwitz, German naval attache in Denmark who leaked the Nazi plan to deport Danish Jews. Place and date uncertain.

    Tags: Denmark rescue
    Portrait of Georg Duckwitz
  • Portrait of Hana Ergas

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    Portrait of Hana Ergas, wife of Isak Ergas. She lived at Zmayeva 20 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 Hana Ergas
  • Portrait of Haviva Reik

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    Haviva Reik, a parachutist from Palestine, before her mission to aid Jews in Slovakia. She was caught and executed by the Nazis. Palestine, probably before September 1944.

    Portrait of Haviva Reik
  • Portrait of Helen Keller

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    Portrait of Helen Keller, seated, reading Braille. September 1907.  In 1933, Nazi students at more than 30 German universities pillaged libraries in search of books they considered to be "un-German." Among the literary and political writings they threw into the flames during the book burning were the works of Helen Keller.

    Portrait of Helen Keller
  • Portrait of Herschel Grynszpan

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    Portrait of Herschel Grynszpan taken after his arrest by French authorities for the assassination of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath. Grynszpan (1921-1943?). Born in Hannover, Germany, was the son of Polish Jews who had immigrated to Germany. In 1936 Grynszpan fled to Paris. On November 7, 1938, after having learned of the expulsion of his parents from Germany to Zbaszyn the Polish frontier, Grynszpan assassinated Ernst vom Rath, the third secretary of the German embassy in Paris. The diplomat's…

    Portrait of Herschel Grynszpan
  • Portrait of Ita Guttman with her twin children Rene and Renate

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    1942 portrait of Ita Guttman with her twin children Rene and Renate. When the twins were very young, the family moved to Prague. In the fall of 1941 the Germans arrested Ita's husband, Herbert. Subsequently, the twins and their mother were deported to Theresienstadt, and from there, to Auschwitz. 

    Tags: children
    Portrait of Ita Guttman with her twin children Rene and Renate
  • Portrait of James Ingo Freed

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    Portrait of James Ingo Freed, architect of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. New York, April 1992.

    Tags: architecture
    Portrait of James Ingo Freed
  • Portrait of Jan Karski

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    Jan Karski, underground courier for the Polish government-in-exile, informed the West in the fall of 1942 about Nazi atrocities against Jews taking place in Poland. Washington, DC, United States, 1943.

    Portrait of Jan Karski
  • Portrait of Janusz Korczak

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    Portrait of Janusz Korczak, a Polish Jewish doctor and author who ran a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw, circa 1930.

    Tags: Warsaw
    Portrait of Janusz Korczak
  • Portrait of Jehovah's Witness Aart Bouter

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    Aart Bouter, a Jehovah's Witness, was arrested by the Dutch police and deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The Netherlands, 1946–47.

    Portrait of Jehovah's Witness Aart Bouter

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