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  • 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
  • Rohingya in a refugee camp

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    Rohingya walk into a section of the Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh, September 2017. 

    Rohingya in a refugee camp
  • Soldiers swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler

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    In Poznan, ethnic German recruits to the German army swear allegiance to Adolf Hitler. January 1940.

    Soldiers swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler
  • Military troops taken oath of loyalty

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    Troops take the oath of obedience to Adolf Hitler. Germany, January 1939. 

    Military troops taken oath of loyalty
  • Poster for Nazi Party speech on Jewish Bolshevik threat

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    Poster for a meeting and speech about the Jewish Bolshevik threat against Germany sponsored by the local Nazi Party of East Hannover. Depicted is a silhouetted caricature of a Jewish man’s head in left profile, with a large, red Star of David beside him. The announcement at the top of the poster reads: "Victory over Bolshevism and plutocracy means being freed from the Jewish parasite!" Created ca. 1937–1940.   

    Poster for Nazi Party speech on Jewish Bolshevik threat

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