SHOAH

IN THE DEATH CAMPS

AUSCHWITZ and AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU

Birkenau crematorium under construction, Fall 1942

Birkenau barracks (war time German photo)

Birkenau (post war photo)

Birkenau crematorium blown-up by the Germans
(post war photo)

Prisoner bunks in Birkenau
(post war photo)

Human transports to gas chambers

One of the first transports of Polish Jews arrives at Auschwitz, 1940

Loading transports of Jews at Lodz station, 1942

A Jewish woman from Greece on the Birkenau platform

Jews at the Birkenau platform waiting for the death-life selection;
most were selected to be sent directly to the gas chambers

The selection

Waiting for death

The unaware last walk to the gas chamber in Birkenau

The arrival of Hungarian Jews at the Birkenau platform, 1944

The arrival of Hungarian Jews at the Birkenau platform, 1944

The arrival of Hungarian Jews at the Birkenau platform, 1944

The arrival of Hungarian Jews at the Birkenau platform, 1944

The arrival of Hungarian Jews at the Birkenau platform, 1944

The arrival of Hungarian Jews at the Birkenau platform, 1944

Selection in Birkenau,
on the right the group selected to the gas chambers

Jewish Hungarian women in Birkenau, 1944;
some female prisoners were subject to heinous experiments

Female prisoners in Birkenau
marched to forced labour at the IG Farben chemical factory, 1944

Forced labour at the construction of a Krupp's factory in Auchwitz

Male Jewish prisoners spared of gas chamber
as deemed fit to forced labour in Auchwitz

Jewish children, the victims of medical experiments in Auschwitz

Death in Auschwitz's forbidden zone

Burning dead bodies in Birkenau
The Auschwitz Museum display photo (photo Michael Schayer)

Children in Auschwitz at the liberation by the Soviet army, January 24, 1945

Auschwitz barbed-wire fences (post war photos)

TREBLINKA

The railway track in Treblinka; the death camp was to the left of the rails.
The road sign in Treblinka (in German).

A transport of Jews just arrived from Warsaw, summer 1942.
Some had died from thirst and asphyxiation on the way

Corpses of victims asphyxiated in the gas chambers, 1942 or 1943

Jewish women from Thessalonika, Greece, in the railcars on the way to
Treblinka death camp

MAJDANEK

On the way to death

Gas chambers in Majdanek, 1944
(a post-war Polish photo)

The label of a can with Zyklon gas, Majdanek, 1944
(a post-war Polish photo)

Ovens for humans, Majdanek, 1944
(a post-war Polish photo)

200,000 shoes of the people murdered in Majdanek, 1944
(a post-war Polish photo)

The Abyss, Majdanek, 1944
(a post-war Polish photo)

BELZEC

Jews of the Lublin Province of Poland are deported to the Belzec death camp,
March 1942.

Two Jews before the execution in Belzec death camp

A pile of shoes of the people murdered in Belzec.
Only two Jews survived Belzec death camp.

CHELMNO

Jews being transfered at the station in Kolo to the narrow-rail open cars
on the way to Chelmno death camp

Jews of the Lodz Ghetto being marched to Chelmno death camp, 1942

Gassing van used to annihilate Jews at Chelmno death camp and elsewhere
(a post-war Polish photo).

Jewish men awaiting death in a gassing van at Chelmno death camp.
320,000 Jews were murdered in Chelmno death camp; four survived.

PLASZOW

Women prisoners from the Plaszow concentration camp march to forced labor, 1943-1944.

Jewish women at forced labor pulling hopper cars of quarried stones
along "Industry Street" in the Plaszow concentration camp, 1944.

DACHAU

A Jewish woman from Budapest,
victim of starvation experiment in the Dachau "hospital"

A Jewish man in icy water subject to German experiments on pilot survival in sea

A Jewish man subject to German experiments in low pressure chamber
on pilot survival of high-altitude parachute jump

DORA-NORDHAUSEN

Liberated Jews in Nordhausen, 1945

Jewish corpses, Nordhausen, 1945

The Nazi to be profit from the dead, April 1945.

BELSEN

Belsen inmates upon the liberation by the British Army, April 1945.

SS wardresses transfer bodies of their victims to a mass grave
after the British liberation of Belsen, April 1945.

Corpses in Belsen, April 1945.

Slave workers liberated from Nazi concentration camp, April 1945.

THE LIVING

The Survivor (photo Patrick Zachmann, Magnum)

The March of the Living in Birkenau (photo Michael Schayer)

The March of the Living at Auschwitz crematorium (photo Michael Schayer)

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