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<p>Suitcases that belonged to people deported to the <a href="/narrative/3673/en">Auschwitz</a> camp. This photograph was taken after Soviet forces liberated the camp. Auschwitz, Poland, after January 1945.</p>

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<p>A Jewish woman carries her radio into a police station after a German order (August 8, 1941) demanded the confiscation of all radios owned by Jews. <a href="/narrative/6033/en">Paris</a>, France, 1941.</p>
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A Jewish woman turns in her radio
<p>An Armenian woman and her child sit on a sidewalk next to a bundle of their possessions. Ottoman Empire, 1918–20.</p>
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An Armenian woman and her child
<p>Belongings of Jews who were deported from <a href="/narrative/6000/en">Vienna</a>. Austria, 1941–42.</p>
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Belongings of Jews who were deported from Vienna
<p>Postwar photograph of a building in Dabie where the possessions of Jews killed at the nearby <a href="/narrative/3852/en">Chelmno</a> killing center were stored. Dabie, Poland, June 1945.</p>
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Building used to store belongings taken from Jews
<p>A pair of candlesticks, bought in Poland and used every Friday evening during observance of the Jewish Sabbath. <a href="/narrative/7045/en">Polish Jewish refugees fleeing the German invasion of Poland</a> in 1939 carried these candlesticks with them to Vilna.</p>
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Candlesticks taken to Vilna by Polish Jewish refugees
<p>Yona Wygocka Dickmann fashioned this aluminum comb from airplane parts after the SS transferred her from Auschwitz to forced labor in an airplane factory in Freiburg, Germany, in November 1944. She used the comb as her hair, shaven in Auschwitz, began to grow back.</p>
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Comb made by Yona Wygocka Dickmann
<p>Jewish families with bundles of belongings during deportation from the <a href="/narrative/3182/en">Kovno</a> ghetto in <a href="/narrative/5762/en">Lithuania</a> to <a href="/narrative/6400/en">Riga</a> in neighboring <a href="/narrative/5729/en">Latvia</a>. Kovno, Lithuania, 1942.</p>
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Deportation from Kovno to Riga
<p>Jews deported from Prague, <a href="/narrative/7295/en">Czechoslovakia</a>, move their belongings through the streets of the <a href="/narrative/2152/en">Lodz</a> ghetto in occupied Poland. November 20, 1941.</p>
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Deportation of Jews from Prague
<p>A private Jewish home vandalized during <a href="/narrative/4063/en">Kristallnacht</a> (the "Night of Broken Glass" <a href="/narrative/3487/en">pogrom</a>). Vienna, Austria, November 10, 1938.</p>
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Home vandalized during Kristallnacht
<p>A private Jewish home vandalized during <a href="/narrative/4063/en">Kristallnacht</a> (the "Night of Broken Glass" <a href="/narrative/3487/en">pogrom</a>). Vienna, Austria, November 10, 1938.</p>
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Home vandalized during Kristallnacht
<p>Jews at the railroad station before deportation. Puchov, Czechoslovakia, March 1942. (Source record ID: E39 Nr.2447/8)</p>
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Jews at the railroad station before deportation
<p>Jews forced into the <a href="/narrative/3182/en">Kovno</a> ghetto move their belongings into the ghetto. In the center, a man is pulling a disassembled wardrobe. He was never able to put it together because of the crowded conditions in the ghetto. Clothes were often hung from nails in the wall instead. Lithuania, ca. 1941-1942.</p>
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Jews move into the Kovno ghetto
<p>A Lithuanian auxiliary policeman auctions off property owned by persons killed in SS-managed shooting operations. Lithuanian auxiliaries served as shooters and guards in these operations. Were those who bought the clothing, who likely knew some of the victims in this small town, complicit in the crimes? Utena, <a href="/narrative/5762/en">Lithuania</a>, July–August 1941.</p>
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Lithuanian policeman auctions property of people killed in SS-managed shooting operations
<p>Soldiers from unidentified units of <a href="/narrative/2290/en">Einsatzgruppe</a> C look through the possessions of Jews massacred at <a href="/narrative/5337/en">Babi Yar</a>, a ravine near Kiev. Soviet Union, September 29–October 1, 1941.</p>
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Looking through the belongings of massacred Jews
<p>A collection of valises belonging to Jews who were <a href="/narrative/5041/en">deported to killing centers</a>. These valises are displayed at the base of the railcar on the third floor of the Permanent Exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, DC, 1993–1995.</p>
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Luggage belonging to Jews who were deported to killing centers
<p>Piles of prayer shawls that belonged to Jewish victims, found after the liberation of the Auschwitz camp. Poland, after January 1945.</p>
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Prayer shawls that belonged to victims at Auschwitz

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