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  • Sculpture memorializing Janusz Korczak

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    A wall sculpture memorializing Polish Jewish doctor Janusz Korczak resides on the exterior of a teaching hospital that bears his name, Olsztyn, Poland.

    Sculpture memorializing Janusz Korczak
  • The Krochmalna Street Orphanage

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    Exterior view of the Jewish orphanage run by Janusz Korczak. Established in 1912, the orphanage was located at 92 Krochmalna Street in Warsaw, Poland. Photo taken circa 1935.

    The Krochmalna Street Orphanage
  • Nazi propaganda depicting German children

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    In this Nazi propaganda picture, young German children are shown eating a meal. The original caption reads: "Everything for the healthy child." Photo dated 1933–1943.

    Nazi propaganda depicting German children
  • Lebensborn program home

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    Two photos showing the exterior and interior views of a Lebensborn home, circa 1933–1943.

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    Lebensborn program home
  • Two of the "Tehran Children"

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    Photograph of two of the Tehran Children, who reached Palestine in 1943 via Iran. 

    Two of the "Tehran Children"
  • SS troops stand at attention

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    SS troops stand at attention for inspection, Germany, 1936-1939. This photo is from an album of SS photographs. 

    SS troops stand at attention
  • German police deployment during World War II

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    Propaganda poster depicting two Germans in the field during World War II. After the war began in 1939, Police Battalions were deployed alongside the German military. This poster was designed by SS-Hauptsturmführer Felix Albrecht in 1941.   

    German police deployment during World War II
  • German Order Policeman in occupied Lodz

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    Bernhardt Colberg, a member of Reserve Police Battalion 101, poses in front of its headquarters in the vicinity of Lodz in German-occupied Poland. The police battalions were units of the German Order Police who were deployed to German-occupied areas of Europe during World War II. Photo dated 1940–1941.

    German Order Policeman in occupied Lodz
  • German Order Policemen publicly humiliate Jews

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    Members of the German Order Police publicly humiliate a group of Jews by forcing them to perform exercises, 1939–1940. Sosnowiec, in German-occupied Poland.

    German Order Policemen publicly humiliate Jews
  • German Order Policemen stand guard over a group of Jewish men

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    Members of the German Order Police stand guard over a group of Orthodox Jewish men, 1942. The men have been rounded-up either for forced labor or public humiliation. Krakow, in German-occupied Poland.

    German Order Policemen stand guard over a group of Jewish men
  • German Order Police during the expulsion of Jews from Sieradz

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    A member of the German Order Police raises a stick to beat a Jew who is loading his bundles onto a wagon during expulsion from the community of Sieradz in German-occupied Poland. Photo dated 1940–1942.

    German Order Police during the expulsion of Jews from Sieradz
  • German police search a Jewish man at gunpoint

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    German policemen search an elderly, religious Jew at gunpoint in German-occupied Poland, circa 1941.

    German police search a Jewish man at gunpoint
  • Order Police Battalion 101

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    German Order Police officers inspect members of Police Battalion 101 in Lodz after the German occupation of Poland, 1939–1943.

    Order Police Battalion 101
  • Prewar photo of the extended Kracowski family

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    The Kracowski family was living in Bialystok when German Order Police Battalion 309 killed 2,000-3,000 Jews on June 27, 1941. Dr. Samuel Kracowski was among the hundreds of Jews locked in the Great Synagogue and burned alive. After the Germans ordered the establishment of a ghetto in Bialystok, Samuel's wife, Esther, and children, Ewa and Julek, were given a room in the ghetto clinic. Photo dated September 1, 1935. Samuel and Esther are seated in the center, with Julek seated in the front row on the…

    Prewar photo of the extended Kracowski family
  • German Order Police Battalion 101

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    A member of the German Order Police Battalion 101 stands next to a sign marking the entrance to the Lodz ghetto in German-occupied Poland, 1940–1941. The German text of the sign reads: "Announcement: In accordance with a police order of February 8, 1940, all Germans and Poles are forbidden entry into the ghetto area."

    German Order Police Battalion 101
  • Manzanar

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    Manzanar relocation center for Japanese Americans, photographed by Ansel Adams. Bird's-eye view of the grounds from the guard tower.

    Manzanar
  • Refugee camp in Zbaszyn

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    View of Zbaszyn, the site of a refugee camp for Jews of Polish nationality who were expelled from Germany.  The Jewish refugees, hungry and cold, were stranded on the border, denied admission into Poland after their expulsion from Germany. Photograph taken between October 28, 1938, and August 1939.  Warsaw-based historian, political activist, and social welfare worker Emanuel Ringelblum spent five weeks in Zbaszyn, organizing assistance for the refugees trapped on the border.

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    Refugee camp in Zbaszyn
  • View of the refugee camp in Zbaszyn

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    View of the flour mill in Zbaszyn, which served as a refugee camp for Jews expelled from Germany. The Jewish refugees, hungry and cold, were stranded on the border, denied admission into Poland after their explusion from Germany. Photograph taken between October 28, 1938, and August 1939.  Warsaw-based historian, political activist, and social welfare worker Emanuel Ringelblum spent five weeks in Zbaszyn, organizing assistance for the refugees trapped on the border.

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    View of the refugee camp in Zbaszyn
  • Group portrait of Jews expelled to Zbaszyn

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    November 1938 group portrait of Jews of Polish nationality who were expelled from Nuremberg, Germany, to the Polish border town of Zbaszyn. The Jewish refugees were stranded on the border and were denied admission into Poland after their explusion from Germany.Pictured from left to right are: Leo Fallmann; Rosa Fallmann; Mr. Auerbach; Mr. Zahn; unknown; unknown; Chaim Kupfermann; Anni Kupfermann; Simon Wassermann; unknown; Regina Holzer; and Bertha Holzer.  

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    Group portrait of Jews expelled to Zbaszyn
  • Theo Markus Verderber

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    Theo Markus Verderber's mother, Gelle, was among the Jews of Polish nationality expelled from Germany in October 1938.  Theo and his younger brother were born in Germany, but went with their mother to a refugee camp in the border town of Zbaszyn. Hungry and cold, the refugees were stranded on the border, unwelcome in either Germany or Poland.  Theo was ultimately chosen to join a Kindertransport to England, arriving there in February 1939. His mother, sister and youngest brother remained in…

    Theo Markus Verderber
  • Arrival at Auschwitz

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    Jews from Subcarpathian Rus get off the deportation train and assemble on the ramp at the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in occupied Poland. May 1944. 

    Arrival at Auschwitz
  • Signing of the German-Soviet Pact

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    Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov signs the German-Soviet Pact. Joachim von Ribbentrop and Josef Stalin stand behind him, Moscow, Soviet Union, August 23. 1939. 

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    Signing of the German-Soviet Pact
  • Forced labor at a Siemens factory

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    Prisoners at forced labor building airplane parts at the Siemens factory in the Bobrek labor camp, a subcamp of Auschwitz. February-June 1944. David Stein is pictured in the row to the right, with his back to the camera; his brother Charles is in the same row, fourth from the left, facing the camera.

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    Forced labor at a Siemens factory
  • View of the Wannsee Villa

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    On January 20, 1942, the villa was the site of the Wannsee Conference. 

    View of the Wannsee Villa
  • Group portrait of Jewish friends in Hungary

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    Group portrait of Jewish friends at a swimming pool in Kalocsa, Hungary, 1930.

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    Group portrait of Jewish friends in Hungary

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