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Janowska — Photograph

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  • Prisoners in the Janowska concentration camp orchestra, which performed as workers were taken to and from forced labor. Poland, between 1941 and 1943.

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  • SS Second Lieutenant Gustav Willhaus, camp commandant, rides past the main gate of the Janowska concentration camp. The road from the street and into the camp was paved with tombstones the Nazis removed from Jewish cemeteries. Janowska, Poland, between September 1942 and November 1943.

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  • Two SS officers and a guard dog in the Janowska concentration camp. Janowska, Poland, between January 1942 and November 1943.

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  • Bone-crushing machine used to grind human bones in order to obtain fertilizer in the Janowska concentration camp. August 1944.

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  • Shoes of victims in the Janowska camp were found by Soviet forces after the liberation of Lvov. Janowska, Poland, August 1944.

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