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<p>One of many warehouses at <a href="/narrative/3673/en">Auschwitz</a> in which the Germans stored clothing belonging taken from victims of the camp. This photograph was taken after the <a href="/narrative/2317/en">liberation</a> of the camp. Auschwitz, Poland, after January 1945.</p>

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<p>One of many warehouses at <a href="/narrative/3673/en">Auschwitz</a> in which the Germans stored clothing belonging taken from victims of the camp. This photograph was taken after the <a href="/narrative/2317/en">liberation</a> of the camp. Auschwitz, Poland, after January 1945.</p>

<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>

<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>

<p>Property confiscated from deported Jews is stacked in a synagogue. Prague, <a href="/narrative/7295/en">Czechoslovakia</a>, 1941–45.</p>

<p>A Soviet soldier walks through a mound of victims' shoes piled outside a warehouse in <a href="/narrative/3168/en">Majdanek</a> soon after the <a href="/narrative/2317/en">liberation</a>. Majdanek, Poland, August 1944.</p>

<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>

<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>

<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>

<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>

<p>An Armenian woman and her child sit on a sidewalk next to a bundle of their possessions. Ottoman Empire, 1918–20.</p>

<p>Jews carrying their possessions during deportation to the <a href="/narrative/3852/en">Chelmno</a> killing center. Most of the people seen here had previously been deported to Lodz from central Europe. Lodz, Poland, January–April 1942.</p>

<p>Jews at the railroad station before deportation. Puchov, Czechoslovakia, March 1942. (Source record ID: E39 Nr.2447/8)</p>

<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>

<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>

<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>

<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>

<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>

<p>Belongings of Jews who were deported from <a href="/narrative/6000/en">Vienna</a>. Austria, 1941–42.</p>

<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>

<p>A synagogue used as a warehouse for the belongings of deported Jews. Szeged ghetto, <a href="/narrative/6229/en">Hungary</a>, 1944.</p>

<p>Ustasa (Croatian fascist) guards alongside belongings of prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp. <a href="/narrative/6153/en">Yugoslavia</a>, between 1941 and 1945.</p>

<p>Piles of prayer shawls that belonged to Jewish victims, found after the liberation of the Auschwitz camp. Poland, after January 1945.</p>

<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>

<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>

<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>

<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>

<p>Ustasa (Croatian fascist) guards search prisoners and take their belongings upon arrival at <a href="/narrative/5902/en">Jasenovac</a> concentration camp. <a href="/narrative/6153/en">Yugoslavia</a>, between 1941 and 1945.</p>

<p>View after the obliteration of the <a href="/narrative/3769/en">Belzec</a> killing center showing a railway shed where victims' belongings were stored. Belzec, Poland, 1944.</p>

<p>Wedding rings taken from prisoners. The rings were found near the <a href="/narrative/3956/en">Buchenwald</a> concentration camp following liberation by US Army soldiers. Germany, May 1945.</p>

<p>Ustasa (Croatian fascist) camp guards order a Jewish man to remove his ring before being shot. Jasenovac concentration camp, Yugoslavia, between 1941 and 1945.</p>

<p>Scene after the <a href="/narrative/2317/en">liberation</a> of the <a href="/narrative/3673/en">Auschwitz</a> camp: a warehouse of clothes that belonged to women who were murdered there. Auschwitz, Poland, after January 1945.</p>

<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/en">Auschwitz</a> victims. Auschwitz, Poland, after January 27, 1945.</p>

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