1933-1939 | ||
| Dictatorship under the Third Reich | ||
 Adolf Hitler salutes spectators upon his arrival at the Zeppelinfeld in Nuremberg for the Reichsparteitag (Reich Party Day) ceremonies. —USHMM #08358 |
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| Early Stages of Persecution | ||
 A dog lies on a park bench which is marked “Nur fuer Arier” (Only for Aryans). —USHMM #63705 |
 Austrian Nazis and local residents look on as Jews are forced to get on their hands and knees and scrub the pavement. —National Archives and Records Administration/USHMM #03741 |
 Jewish girls sheltered at the Centre de Sainte-Mande, children’s home on rue Granville in Paris. Only a few escaped deportation to Auschwitz. —USHMM #31330 |
| Kristallnacht | ||
 Local residents view the burning of the ceremonial hall at the Jewish cemetery in Graz. —Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstandes/USHMM #04372 |
 Germans pass by the broken shop of a Jewish-owned business that was destroyed during Kristallnacht. —National Archives and Records Administration/USHMM #86838 |
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| American Response | ||
 A view of the SS St. Louis surrounded by smaller vessels in the port of Hamburg. —USHMM #88358 |
 Jewish refugees aboard the SS St. Louis attempt to communicate with friends and relatives in Cuba, who were permitted to approach the docked vessel in small boats. —National Archives and Records Administration/USHMM #11291 |
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1939-1945 | ||
| Life in the Ghetto | ||
 Two children beg for food on the streets of the Warsaw ghetto. —USHMM #32318 |
 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto awaiting their turn in the soup kitchen. —Archiwum Dokumentacji Mechanicznej/USHMM #07056 |
 A Jewish policeman and a German soldier direct pedestrian traffic across the main street dividing the two parts of the Lodz ghetto. —Zydowski Instytut Historyczny Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy/USHMM #37316 |
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| Mobile Killing Units (Einsatzgruppen) | ||
 Jewish men, women, and children await execution in a ravine. —Instytut Pamieci Narodowej/USHMM #17875 |
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| Concentration Camps | ||
 Prisoners standing during a roll call. Each wears a striped hat and uniform bearing colored, triangular badges and identification numbers. —USHMM #10105 |
 A transport of Jews from Subcarpathian Rus is taken off the trains and assembled on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. —Yad Vashem/USHMM #77221 |
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| Rescue | ||
 Danish fishermen (foreground) ferry a boatload of fugitives across a narrow sound to neutral Sweden. Within just a few weeks of the first arrests by the Germans in 1943, some 7,000 Danish Jews managed to make their way to the safety of fishing boats that plied this route. —courtesy of Frihedsmuseet/USHMM #70737 |
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| Resistance | ||
 SS troops guard members of the Jewish resistance captured during the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. —National Archives and Records Administration/USHMM #46193 |
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| Death Marches | ||
 A view of concentration camp prisoners marching through a village while on a death march from Dachau to Wolfratshausen. The photo was taken through the upstairs window of a private home along the death march route. —KZ Gedenkstaette Dachau/USHMM #81275 |
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| Liberation | ||
 American soldiers entering Buchenwald upon liberation of the camp. —USHMM #09807 |
 Mauthausen survivors cheer the soldiers of the Eleventh Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army one day after their actual liberation. —courtesy of NARA/USHMM #68210 |
 An emaciated survivor drinking from a metal bowl in front of a barracks in Buchenwald. —NARA/USHMM #62135 |
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Postwar | ||
| Postwar Trials | ||
 The defendants in the dock listen to proceedings at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. —USHMM #16777 |
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