Holocaust Images

Gate at Auschwitz.

Bulldozers clearing away corpses at Bergen-Belsen. Bergen-Belsen, Germany, April 1945.

Imperial War Museum, London. Courtesy Hadassah Rosensaft.

Crowd responding to pageantry at Nazi Party Congress, Nuremberg, Germany,

November 1938. Hugo Jaeger, Life Magazine, Time Warner, Inc., New York.

Photo among several introduced at war crimes trial in Nuremberg showing destruction

in Warsaw in spring of 1943. AP/Wide World Photos.

Massacre of Jews by Germans and Latvians. This photo found among Gestapo papers

in the city of Liepaja. Liepaja, Latvia. Novosti Press Agency--APN, Moscow.

Gate at Auschwitz II (Birkenau) where transports arrived (selections took place

on the far side of the building).

Mass execution in the eastern occupied territories, Poland/Lithuania, c. 1941.

Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, Paris.

Selection of Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz. Auschwitz, Poland, spring 1944.

Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.

Former prisoners of Buchenwald stare out from the wooden bunks. Elie Wiesel

is in the second row of bunks, seventh from the left, next to the vertical beam.

16 April 1945. National Archives, Washington.

Family photo taken in 1927 on the occasion of Dora Zlotnick's (center row, third from right)

departure for Palestine. Except for Dora and two young male cousins pictured here who

also moved to Palestine, all were murdered in Ejszyszki in September 1941. Photo by

Yitzhak Uri Katz.

Clandestine photo of women being herded to the gas chambers of Crematorium V

in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Auschwitz, Poland, August 1944. State Museum of

Auschwitz, Oswiecim, Poland.

American soldiers in front of calcinated corpses of Ohrdruf concentration camp inmates.

Ohrdruf, Germany, April 1945. National Archives, Washington.

Bluma Juris and niece Leah'le Dugaczinski strolling on Vilna Street, Ejszyszok, 1930s.

Leah'le and her parents were murdered in Ejszyszki. Bluma survived the war in Russia.

Photo Rephael Lejvowicz.