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701. Guarded by British troops, former SS doctor Fritz Klein is confronted with Nazi atrocities before an open grave filled with the corpses of Bergen-Belsen inmates.
April 18 and April 28, the dead were buried. At first the SS guards were made to collect and bury the ... interned abroad. Conditions in the camp were good by concentration camp standards, and most prisoners were ... Army retreated in the face of the advancing Allies, the concentration camps were evacuated and their ... thousands of prisoners and all basic services -- food, water and sanitation -- collapsed, leading to the
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702. Under British guard, former SS guards in Bergen-Belsen are forced to load the corpses of prisoners onto trucks, for transport to mass graves.
April 18 and April 28, the dead were buried. At first the SS guards were made to collect and bury the ... ), who became furious after seeing SS throw the corpse of her best friend onto the truck.
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703. A Jewish refugee family from Germany poses for a picture as their ship, the SS Rotterdam, arrives in New York harbor.
in New York harbor. Pictured are Sol and Henrietta Meyer and their son Harvey. (The Meyers are the ... Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Kurt & Jill Berg Pauly
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704. Original Caption: "Seventh U.S. Army tankmen use a small knoll in Dachau to fire at fleeing SS guards as they liberated the infamous torture camp.
Americans. SS guards opened fire on other prisoners who went wild with joy and rushed to meet the liberating ... concentrations camps of Buchenwald and Belsen were discovered in the stinking hell-hole of Dachau, captured by ... troops pf the 42nd and 45th Infantry Divions of the Seventh U.S. Army April 30, 1945. More than 32 ... ,000 prisoners were liberated, among them some Englishmen, Canadians and Americans. The camp was formally
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705. Five SS men in civilian clothing are forced to walk among the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near Nammering.
by the 150 SS and police officers guarding the train. The commanding officer in charge, Lieutenant ... the local inhabitants attempted to give the prisoners food and water, but these provisions were stolen
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706. SS General Karl Albrecht Oberg (right), known as the "Butcher of Paris" because of his activities as Nazi police leader in France, is shown with U.S.
1945, in the mountains near Kitzbuhel, Austria. Original caption reads: "SS General Karl Albrecht ... Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Ron Leidelmeyer
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707. Wilhelm Dorr, formerly an SS warden in Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, Dora-Mittelbau, and Bergen-Belsen, is forced to make an announcement for a British newsreel while standing in front of a truck filled with prisoners' corpses.
April 18 and April 28, the dead were buried. At first the SS guards were made to collect and bury the ... interned abroad. Conditions in the camp were good by concentration camp standards, and most prisoners were
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708. The wedding of Terese and Nachum Cohen.
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Tunisia ... Rachelle Franco (born Nadia Cohen) is the daughter of Nachum (b. 1890 Tunis) and Terese (b. Jan. 6
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709. German civilians from Gardelegen carry wooden crosses to the site where they were ordered to bury the bodies of concentration camp prisoners killed by the SS in a barn just outside the town.
David over each grave and enclosed the site with a white fence. Though the SS troops who participated ... April 4, 1945 between two and three thousand prisoners of the Rottleberode labor camp were boarded onto
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710. Albert Nussbaum, Director of Transmigration for the American Joint Distribution Committee, poses in the port of Lisbon in front of a wooden fence that cordons off the Jewish refugees who are waiting to board the SS Mouzinho.
Albert Nussbaum (the uncle of donor Milton Koch) is the son of Gustave and Helaine (Kleinberg ... Nussb Albert Nussbaum (the uncle of donor Milton Koch) is the son of Gustave and Helaine (Kleinberg
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711. Prisoners' bodies block the door of the barn outside Gardelegen, where they were shot while trying to escape the flaming interior, which had been set alight by the SS.
David over each grave and enclosed the site with a white fence. Though the SS troops who participated ... April 4, 1945 between two and three thousand prisoners of the Rottleberode labor camp were boarded onto
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712. Members of the 97th Infantry Division, investigating war crimes, force a German civilian to exhume the body of a concentration camp prisoner who was shot by the SS and buried on the side of the road while on a death march from Flossenbuerg concentration camp.
already evacuated many of their prisoners to Flossenbuerg earlier in the year, including Buchenwald and ... Auschwitz, so that by the beginning of May the camp and its satellites were overflowing with almost 52
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713. Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler converses outside with Rudolf Schmundt at Wolfsschanze (Wolf's Lair), Hitler's field headquarters in Rastenburg, East Prussia.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister ... Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister of the ... In 1929 Himmler was appointed head of the SS, Hitler's personal guard, and the following year, was ... gave him the power base to expand the SS and secure its independence from Roehm's SA (Storm Troopers
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714. Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler holding his daughter Gudrun at a function at her elementary school in Berlin-Dahlem.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister ... Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister of the ... In 1929 Himmler was appointed head of the SS, Hitler's personal guard, and the following year, was ... gave him the power base to expand the SS and secure its independence from Roehm's SA (Storm Troopers
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715. SS officer, Karl Hoecker salutes in front of an array of wreaths during a military funeral near Auschwitz.
IG Farben in which 15 SS men died in the SS residential blocks and 28 were seriously wounded ... family. Hoecker, who worked as a bank teller in Lubbecke, joined the SS in 1933 and the Nazi party in ... of the WVHA (SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt) in Berlin, and had never before worked in a camp ... official visits and ceremonies, as well as more personal photographs depicting the myriad of SS social
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716. SS officer Karl Hoecker stands in front of a truck with a double barreled shotgun during a hunting excursion.
family. Hoecker, who worked as a bank teller in Lubbecke, joined the SS in 1933 and the Nazi party in ... of the WVHA (SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt) in Berlin, and had never before worked in a camp ... official visits and ceremonies, as well as more personal photographs depicting the myriad of SS social ... activities. The earliest photos show the June visits first of Lufwaffe General Erich Quade and of SS
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717. Portrait of SS officer Karl Hoecker with his sleeves rolled up standing in front of an air-raid shelter.
family. Hoecker, who worked as a bank teller in Lubbecke, joined the SS in 1933 and the Nazi party in ... of the WVHA (SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt) in Berlin, and had never before worked in a camp ... official visits and ceremonies, as well as more personal photographs depicting the myriad of SS social ... activities. The earliest photos show the June visits first of Lufwaffe General Erich Quade and of SS
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718. Portrait of SS officer Karl Hoecker with his sleeves rolled up standing in front of an air-raid shelter.
family. Hoecker, who worked as a bank teller in Lubbecke, joined the SS in 1933 and the Nazi party in ... of the WVHA (SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt) in Berlin, and had never before worked in a camp ... official visits and ceremonies, as well as more personal photographs depicting the myriad of SS social ... activities. The earliest photos show the June visits first of Lufwaffe General Erich Quade and of SS
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719. Women survivors in Bergen-Belsen watch British troops forcing former SS guards to bury corpses in a mass grave.
April 18 and April 28, the dead were buried. At first the SS guards were made to collect and bury the ... interned abroad. Conditions in the camp were good by concentration camp standards, and most prisoners were ... Army retreated in the face of the advancing Allies, the concentration camps were evacuated and their ... thousands of prisoners and all basic services -- food, water and sanitation -- collapsed, leading to the
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720. Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler accepts a birthday gift from a server at Hochwald before getting into an automobile.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister ... Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister of the ... In 1929 Himmler was appointed head of the SS, Hitler's personal guard, and the following year, was ... gave him the power base to expand the SS and secure its independence from Roehm's SA (Storm Troopers
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721. Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler converses with two children who have just presented him with a bouquet of flowers.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister ... Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister of the ... In 1929 Himmler was appointed head of the SS, Hitler's personal guard, and the following year, was ... gave him the power base to expand the SS and secure its independence from Roehm's SA (Storm Troopers
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722. Taken on his birthday, Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler converses with Karl Wolff (right) as they walk along an unpaved road.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister ... Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister of the ... In 1929 Himmler was appointed head of the SS, Hitler's personal guard, and the following year, was ... gave him the power base to expand the SS and secure its independence from Roehm's SA (Storm Troopers
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723. The defendants remove their shoelaces and personal possessions at the beginning of the trial of 61 former camp personnel and prisoners from Mauthausen.
starvation. Among those charged was August Eigruber, the former Gauleiter of Upper Austria and one of the ... people who helped establish the camp. The trial began March 29 and lasted only six weeks, with the court
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724. Jacob and Asya Hasenson Chankin (the donor's uncle and aunt) visit Max and Else Chankin in Yugoslavia.
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Yugoslavia -- Family/Friends/Portraits ... Joseph Shadur (born Jospeh Schadur) is the son of Manja Hasenson and Michel Schadur. He was born
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725. View of the fence and road enclosing the Lodz ghetto.
View of the fence and road enclosing the Lodz ghetto. The photograph was probably taken by a ... against the Jewish people and the repression of the Polish population. Members of the battalion ... participated in the round-up and expulsion of Jews, Poles, and Roma, the guarding and liquidation of ghettos