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

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<p>Jews forced into the <a href="/narrative/3182">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 synagogue used as a warehouse for the belongings of deported Jews. Szeged ghetto, <a href="/narrative/6229">Hungary</a>, 1944.</p>
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Synagogue used as a warehouse
<p>Soldiers from unidentified units of <a href="/narrative/2290">Einsatzgruppe</a> C look through the possessions of Jews massacred at <a href="/narrative/5337">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 pair of candlesticks, bought in Poland and used every Friday evening during observance of the Jewish Sabbath. <a href="/narrative/7045">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>The valuables displayed here were confiscated from prisoners by German guards at the Buchenwald concentration camp and later found by soldiers of the Third US Army after the liberation of the camp. Buchenwald, Germany, after April 1945.</p>
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Valuables confiscated from prisoners at the Buchenwald camp
<p>After the liberation of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, two US army infantrymen examine a pile of shoes belonging to victims of the camp. Flossenbürg, Germany, May 1945.</p>
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Shoes belonging to victims of Flossenbürg
<p>Soviet refugees sit around a fire in a makeshift camp, following the German invasion of Soviet territory on June 22, 1941. Soviet Union, between 1941 and 1944.</p>
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Refugees in the Soviet Union
<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>Suitcases that belonged to people deported to the <a href="/narrative/3673">Auschwitz</a> camp. This photograph was taken after Soviet forces liberated the camp. Auschwitz, Poland, after January 1945.</p>
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Suitcases that belonged to people deported to the Auschwitz camp
<p>Rail cars discovered by Soviet forces and containing possessions taken from deportees. This abandoned train was on the way to Germany loaded with personal effects (in this case, pillows) taken from <a href="/narrative/3673">Auschwitz</a> victims. Auschwitz, Poland, after January 27, 1945.</p>
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Rail cars containing confiscated belongings to be shipped to Germany.
<p>A Soviet soldier walks through a mound of victims' shoes piled outside a warehouse in <a href="/narrative/3168">Majdanek</a> soon after the <a href="/narrative/2317">liberation</a>. Majdanek, Poland, August 1944.</p>
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Victims' shoes at Majdanek
<p>View after the obliteration of the <a href="/narrative/3769">Belzec</a> killing center showing a railway shed where victims' belongings were stored. Belzec, Poland, 1944.</p>
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Site of the Belzec killing center
<p>Postwar photograph of a building in Dabie where the possessions of Jews killed at the nearby <a href="/narrative/3852">Chelmno</a> killing center were stored. Dabie, Poland, June 1945.</p>
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Building used to store belongings taken from Jews
<p>Wedding rings taken from prisoners. The rings were found near the <a href="/narrative/3956">Buchenwald</a> concentration camp following liberation by US Army soldiers. Germany, May 1945.</p>
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Wedding rings
<p>A private Jewish home vandalized during <a href="/narrative/4063">Kristallnacht</a> (the "Night of Broken Glass" <a href="/narrative/3487">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">Kristallnacht</a> (the "Night of Broken Glass" <a href="/narrative/3487">pogrom</a>). Vienna, Austria, November 10, 1938.</p>
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Home vandalized during Kristallnacht

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