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At liberation, former political prisoners walk the streets of the Theresienstadt ghetto's "small fortress" internment camp. [LCID: 70696]
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Internment camps

During the Holocaust (1933–1945), the Nazis and their allies used internment camps to imprison their victims, including Jews and Roma. Typically, these camps did more than just intern people. Many of them also served as forced-labor and transit camps. Explore more content related to internment camps during the Holocaust.

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Breendonk internment camp, 1942 [LCID: brd22040]
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Breendonk internment camp, 1942
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Breendonk - Photographs
Close-up portrait of Hebrew and Yiddish author Itzhak Katzenelson in the Vittel internment camp. [LCID: 81640]
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Close-up portrait of Hebrew and Yiddish author Itzhak Katzenelson in the Vittel internment camp
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Danzig - ID Cards/Oral Histories
Drawing titled "L'Attente" [Mother and Son Waiting] by Lili Andrieux
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Drawing titled "L'Attente" by Lili Andrieux
Entrance to the Breendonk internment camp. Breendonk, Belgium, 1940-1944. [LCID: 41203]
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Entrance to the Breendonk internment camp
A group of foreign-born Jews poses for a photo in Gurs, a French internment camp in southwestern France. [LCID: 80148]
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Foreign-born Jews in Gurs
Foreign Jews arrested in Paris at the Austerlitz train station before deportation to the French-administered internment camps Pithiviers ... [LCID: 78893]
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Foreign Jews in Paris before deportation to internment camps
"Reading Room, Laufen" by Josef Nassy, 1943
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Josef Nassy
View of the dam being built in the Im Fout labor camp in Morocco.
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Labor and Internment Camps in North Africa
Romani (Gypsy) women march to work in the Lackenbach internment camp. [LCID: 29046]
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Lackenbach (Roma internment and transit camp)
View of the Les Milles internment camp. France, date uncertain. [LCID: 88824]
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Les Milles Camp
Manzanar relocation center for Japanese Americans, photographed by Ansel Adams
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Manzanar
Mechelen environs, 1942 [LCID: mec42030]
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Mechelen environs, 1942
Roll call at an internment camp for Roma (Gypsies). [LCID: 29045]
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Internment camp for Roma (Gypsies)
Romani (Gypsy) children play outside at the Jargeau internment camp. [LCID: 97422]
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Romani (Gypsy) children play outside at the Jargeau camp

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