SHOAH

DURING THE EARLY NAZI OCCUPATION
OF POLAND

GERMAN SOLDIERS' AMUSEMENT

German soldiers leaving for the east, September, 1939;
The handwritten inscription on the rail car in beetwen crude pictures of Jews reads:
"We are off to Poland to thrash the Jews"

"Plucking" the Jews, late October 1939

A German cuts a Jew's beard, Warsaw, 1939

German soldiers kicking a Jew, Wloclawek, German occupied Poland, 1939

Jews used by the Germans as horses, Warsaw, 1940

Jews pulling a wagon with a load of stones.

A photograph from the Der Illustrierter Beobachter, October 12, 1939 (two weeks after the fall of Poland).

Jews carrying loads of bricks as forced labour.

A photograph from the Der Illustrierter Beobachter, October 12, 1939 (two weeks after the fall of Poland).

THE GENOCIDE BEGINS

Public execution of three Jews, Lodz, November 1939

Digging the Jewish grave under a German eye, Poland, Fall 1939

Last update: September 3, 2003

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