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Auschwitz through the Lens of the SS: Photos of Nazi Leadership at the Camp
In January 2007, the Museum acquired a personal album containing 116 photographs taken in 1944 of SS officers at Auschwitz-Birkenau—providing a rare and chilling look at the camp’s Nazi leadership.
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Liberation
As Allied and Soviet troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they encountered concentration camps, mass graves, and numerous other sites of Nazi crimes. Learn more about liberation and the end of World War II.
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Music of the Holocaust: Highlights from the Collection
For many victims of Nazi brutality, music was an important means of preserving and asserting their humanity. Like “audio snapshots,” works of music from the Holocaust offer a telling glimpse into the events and emotions their creators and first audiences experienced firsthand.
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Oskar Schindler: An Unlikely Hero
Oskar Schindler’s actions to protect Jews during the Holocaust have earned him a special place among honored rescuers.
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Personal Histories
The items people chose to take with them as they fled Nazi persecution; a mother’s efforts to protect her child; the atmosphere in ghettos in the aftermath of roundups and deportations; conditions in cattle cars during deportation—these are among the experiences described in featured personal histories.
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The Liberation of Auschwitz
January 2020 marks seventy-five years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest camp established by the Germans. A complex of camps, Auschwitz included a concentration camp, killing center, and forced-labor camp.
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Theresienstadt: Spiritual Resistance and Historical Context
The “camp-ghetto” of Theresienstadt, located about 35 miles northwest of the Czech city of Prague, offered perhaps the most favorable environment for spiritual resistance in the Nazi camp system.
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