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Historical images seen in this workshop

1a.

Danish fishermen (foreground) ferry a boatload of Jewish fugitives across a narrow sound to neutral Sweden.

Frihedsmuseet #70737


View of the defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal during the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg.

National Archives #61323


Spectators look on as German police and men presumed to be members of an Einsatzkommando (mobile killing unit) execute men standing in a trench. The sand indicates that this photograph may show an action carried out along the coast of the Baltic Sea.

Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstandes #19157

1b.

Cover of the antisemitic German children’s book, Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom).

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #40000


Antisemitic posters, handbills, and stickers (including an election leaflet.)

Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library Limited #10641


Local residents watch the burning of the ceremonial hall at the Jewish cemetery in Graz.

National Archives #04372


A canister of Zyklon B gas crystals lies overturned on a table with some of its contents spilled.

Archiwum Panstwowego Muzeum na Majdanku #n01196

1c.

Local residents watch the burning of the ceremonial hall at the Jewish cemetery in Graz.

National Archives #04372


Male Jews who were arrested during Kristallnacht and forced to march through the town streets under SS guard to watch the desecration of a synagogue. They were then deported.

Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz #27224

1d.

This election poster calls on Germans to vote in support of Hitler’s hand-picked candidates to the Reichstag (the German parliament).

Niedersaechsische Landeszentrale fuer politische Bildung #1998uzvr

1e.

Passport photograph of Raoul Wallenberg.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #06917a


View of the defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal during the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg.

National Archives #61323


Side view of the Danish rescue boat on the second floor of the Permanent Exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #n00282


A canister of Zyklon B gas crystals lies overturned on a table with some of its contents spilled.

Archiwum Panstwowego Muzeum na Majdanku #n01196

2.

Piles of shoes that belonged to prisoners killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Poland, wartime.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #0009


Belongings of Auschwitz inmates: suitcases found after liberation (the suitcases had not been shipped to Germany).

National Archives #12022a


A view of the Auschwitz II camp, showing the camp barracks.

National Archives #04412


Newly arrived prisoners, with shaven heads, stand at attention in their civilian clothes during a roll call in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee #79914


Group portrait of Jewish high school students at the Hebrew gymnasium in Mukachevo (Munkacs).

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #42559


The Kohn family poses with Lina Spitzer in front of her home in Rechnitz.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #33984

Historical images seen in this workshop

1a.

The Holocaust



Antisemitic posters, handbills, and stickers (including an election leaflet.)

Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library Limited #10641


Local residents watch the burning of the ceremonial hall at the Jewish cemetery in Graz.

National Archives #04372


German soldiers of the Waffen-SS and the Reich Labor Service look on as a member of an Einsatzgruppe (mobile killing unit) prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew kneeling on the edge of a mass grave filled with corpses.

Library of Congress #64407

1b.

Arrival of arrested Jews at the Austerlitz train station.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #78893


SS guards walk along the arrival ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Yad Vashem Photo Archives #77220


Major deportations to extermination camps, 1942-1944.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #eur78940

2a.

Cover of the antisemitic German children’s book, Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom).

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #40000


The Kohn family poses with Lina Spitzer in front of her home in Rechnitz.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #33984


Kathe Spiegler, the half-sister of Eugen Spitzer, poses near a pond in Vienna.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #33974


Olga Fuchel relaxes with her dogs in the Vienna apartment she shared with her husband, Rudolf.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #06172

2b.

Warsaw Ghetto



A Jewish policeman directs traffic at the intersection of Leszno and Karmelicka streets in the Warsaw ghetto.

Bundesarchiv #14085

2c.

The Kohn family poses with Lina Spitzer in front of her home in Rechnitz.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #33984


Kathe Spiegler, the half-sister of Eugen Spitzer, poses near a pond in Vienna.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #33974


Olga Fuchel relaxes with her dogs in the Vienna apartment she shared with her husband, Rudolf.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #06172

3.

Thousands of shoes confiscated from arriving prisoners at the Majdanek camp.

Archiwum Panstwowego Muzeum na Majdanku #n00031


Belongings of Auschwitz inmates: suitcases found after liberation (the suitcases had not been shipped to Germany).

National Archives #12022a


Group portrait of Jewish high school students at the Hebrew gymnasium in Mukachevo (Munkacs).

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #42559


A collection of toothbrushes confiscated from Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #n01138

4a.

Warsaw Ghetto



Auschwitz



Children in the Westerbork transit camp.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #18139


View of the entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau; taken from inside the camp.

Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz #08909


Jewish women at forced labor on “Industry Street” in the Plaszow concentration camp.

Leopold Page Photographic Collection #50705


Newly arrived prisoners, with shaven heads, stand at attention in their civilian clothes during a roll call in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee #79914

4b.

Using calipers, a racial hygienist measures the forehead of a young man.

Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz #71187

6.

A view of the St. Louis, surrounded by smaller vessels in the port of Havana.

Herbert Karliner #88358


Cover of a photo album belonging to St. Louis passenger Fritz Buff. The cover features an image of the ship.

Fred Buff #29731


German citizens salute Adolf Hitler at the opening of the 11th Olympiad in Berlin.

National Archives #14495


An aerial reconnaissance photograph of the Auschwitz concentration camp, showing Auschwitz II (Birkenau).

National Archives #03996

7.

Danish fishermen (foreground) ferry a boatload of Jewish fugitives across a narrow sound to neutral Sweden.

Frihedsmuseet #70737


Jews buying and selling on the corner of Dvaro Street in the Kovno ghetto.

Simon Wiesenthal Center #25151

8.

Detail of prisoner uniforms displayed on the second floor of the Permanent Exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #n02489


A canister of Zyklon B gas crystals lies overturned on a table with some of its contents spilled.

Archiwum Panstwowego Muzeum na Majdanku #n01196


Passport photograph of Raoul Wallenberg.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #06917a


A crowd of Viennese children looks on as Austrian Nazis force a Jewish youth to paint the word “Jude” on his father’s store.

Oesterreichische Institut fuer Zeitgeschichte #01510

9.

One of the three milk cans used by Warsaw ghetto historian Emanuel Ringelblum to store and preserve the secret "Oneg Shabbat" ghetto archives.

Zydowski Instytut Historyczny Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy #n00100


Archivists at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw sort through the contents of the Ringelblum archive, retrieved from two milk cans discovered in 1946 and 1950 in the ruins of buildings in the former ghetto.

Sovfoto/Eastfoto #27069

10.

Passport photograph of Raoul Wallenberg.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #06917a

11.

German soldiers of the Waffen-SS and the Reich Labor Service look on as a member of an Einsatzgruppe (mobile killing unit) prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew kneeling on the edge of a mass grave filled with corpses.

Library of Congress #64407


Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing unit) massacres in eastern Europe, June 1941-November 1942.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #eur73960


Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing unit) massacres in eastern Europe, June 1941-November 1942.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #eeu73050

12.

A transport of Jews from Carpathian Ruthenia is taken off the trains and assembled on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Yad Vashem Photo Archives #77221


Jews from Carpathian Ruthenia undergo a selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Yad Vashem Photo Archives #77234


A view of the Auschwitz II camp, showing the camp barracks.

National Archives #04412


View of the railcar on display in the Permanent Exhibition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #n00090


An aerial reconnaissance photograph of the Auschwitz concentration camp, showing Auschwitz II (Birkenau).

National Archives #03996


View of the entrance to the main camp of Auschwitz (Auschwitz I). The gate bears the motto “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work makes one free).

Main Commission for the Prosecution of the Crimes against the Polish Nation #00001


View of the entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau; taken from inside the camp.

Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz #08909


Belongings of Auschwitz inmates: suitcases found after liberation (the suitcases had not been shipped to Germany).

National Archives #12022a

14.

A dog lies on a park bench which is marked "Nur fuer Arier!" (Only for Aryans).

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #63705

Historical images seen in this workshop

1.

World War II



Auschwitz



Warsaw Ghetto



The Holocaust



Rescue


Historical images seen in this workshop

2.

Jewish emigration from Germany, 1933-1940

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #wor79170

6.

Jewish armed resistance in ghettos and camps, 1941-1944

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum #pol75480