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View of the destroyed Jewish cemetery in German-occupied Salonika. The tombstones would be used as building materials. Salonika, Greece, after December 6, 1942.
A Greek Jewish couple with compulsory yellow stars on their clothing. Salonika, Greece, between February and June 1943.
Entrance to the Breendonk internment camp. Breendonk, Belgium, 1940-1944.
A postwar photograph of the Breendonk internment camp in Belgium. In August 1940, the Germans, who had occupied Belgium in May of that year, turned the fortress into a detention camp.
After the war, thousands of Jewish children ended up in orphanages all over Europe as a result of the Holocaust. The toddlers in this children's home in Etterbeek, Belgium, survived in hiding, but their parents had been deported to Auschwitz.
Parting from one's child was a difficult experience for parents who placed their offspring with foster families. Eda Künstler entrusted this photograph of herself to her daughter's rescuer, Zofji Sendler. On the back it is inscribed, "Anita's real mother."
A young girl in a home for Jewish infants waiting for their families to claim them or be adopted. Etterbeek, Belgium, after 1945.
Denunciations of Jews to German authorities came from a variety of different sources, sometimes even from their "protectors." In 1944, Eva and Liane Münzer (pictured here) were reported to the police as a result of a domestic fight between their rescuers. The irate husband denounced his wife and the two Jewish girls. The Münzer sisters were sent to Auschwitz and killed.
Eva, Alfred, and Leane Munzer. Infant Alfred survived in hiding; his sisters were discovered and killed in Auschwitz.
A view of one of the watchtowers and part of the perimeter fence at Ohrdruf, part of the Buchenwald camp system, seen here after US forces liberated the camp. Ohrdruf, Germany, April 1945.
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