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A transport of 200 Jewish children, fleeing postwar antisemitic violence in Poland, arrives at the Prague railroad station. The children are on their way to displaced persons camps in the American-occupied zone of Germany. Prague, Czechoslovakia, July 15, 1946.
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The European rail network played a crucial role in the implementation of the "Final Solution."

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Deportation of Jews from Bielefeld in Germany to Riga in Latvia. Bielefeld, Germany, December 13, 1941.
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Deportation of Jews from Germany to Latvia
Deportation of Jews from Bielefeld in Germany to Riga in Latvia. Bielefeld, Germany, December 13, 1941.
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Deportation of Jews from Germany to Latvia
Deportation of Jews to Riga, Latvia. Bielefeld, Germany, December 13, 1941.
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Deportation of Jews from Germany to Riga
Deportation of Jews from Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, to the Theresienstadt ghetto. Hanau, Germany, May 30, 1942.
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Deportation of Jews from Hanau to Theresienstadt
Jews from the Lodz ghetto are loaded onto freight trains for deportation to the Chelmno killing center. Lodz, Poland, 1942–44.
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Deportation of Jews from the Lodz ghetto to the Chelmno killing center
Scene during the deportation of Macedonian Jews by Bulgarian occupation authorities. Skopje, Yugoslavia, March 1943.
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Deportation of Macedonian Jews
Jews carrying their possessions during deportation to the Chelmno killing center. Most of the people seen here had previously been deported to Lodz from central Europe. Lodz, Poland, January–April 1942.
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Deportations to Killing Centers
Foreign Jews arrested in Paris at the Austerlitz train station before deportation to the French-administered internment camps Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande in the Loire region. Paris, France, ca. May 1941.
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Foreign Jews in Paris before deportation to internment camps
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German-occupied Salonika, 1942-1943
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German Railways and the Holocaust - Photograph
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German Railways and the Holocaust - ID Card/Oral History
Selection of Hungarian Jews at the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Poland, May 1944.
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Hungarian Jews at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Voucher for travel on the Trans-Siberian Railroad purchased at the "Intourist Travel Company of the USSR" in England for Joseph and Ruth Schaffer. Thousands of Jewish refugees fled Nazi Europe on the Trans-Siberian Railroad through the Soviet Union to Japan with the help of Japanese visas provided by Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara. [From the USHMM special exhibition Flight and Rescue.]
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Intourist service voucher for the Trans-Siberian Railroad
Jewish refugees, part of the Brihah (the postwar mass flight of Jews from eastern Europe), in a crowded boxcar on the way to a displaced persons camp in the American occupation zone. Germany, 1945 or 1946.
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Jewish refugees en route to a displaced persons camp
Jewish women and children deported from Hungary, separated from the men, line up for selection. Auschwitz camp, Poland, May 1944.
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Jewish women and children upon arrival in Auschwitz
Jews at the railroad station before deportation. Puchov, Czechoslovakia, March 1942. (Source record ID: E39 Nr.2447/8)
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Jews at the railroad station before deportation

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