Adolf Hitler- Leader of the Nazi Party in Germany.
Two young brothers, seated for a family photograph in the Kovno ghetto. One month later, they were deported to the Majdanek camp. Kovno, Lithuania, February 1944.
Children eating in the ghetto streets. Warsaw, Poland, between 1940 and 1943.
German Jewish orphans arrive at the Marseille railroad station, en route to Palestine as part of Aliyah Bet ("illegal" immigration). Marseille, France, March 25, 1948.
Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels urges a Berlin crowd to boycott Jewish businesses. (April 1933)
Nazi stormtroopers bar the Berlin entrance to a Jewish shop. Their signs read: "Germans, defend yourselves against the Jewish atrocity proaganda, buy only at German shops!" and "Germans, defend yourselves, buy only at German shops!"
A Synagogue burns in Siegen, Germany, on November, 10 1938. Kristallnacht, or The Night of Broken Glass, was a large-scale coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Riech.
The cover of a 1939 antisemitic brochure, The Scourge of God: Polish Jews
[Photo Credit: U.S. National Archives.]
[Photo Credit: U.S. National Archives.]
German soldiers on the way to Poland. The inscription on the railway car reads: "We are going to Poland to strike at the Jews." On the left, an antisemitic drawing of a Jew.
[from The Pictorial History of the Holocaust, ed. Yitzhak Arad. New York: Macmillan, 1990]
[from The Pictorial History of the Holocaust, ed. Yitzhak Arad. New York: Macmillan, 1990]
In the Polish town of Olkusz, in July 1940, Rabbi Moshe Yitzhak Hengerman is forced to pray before his prostrate congregants, who have just been beaten by German soldiers.
Two-year-old Mania Halef, a Jewish child murdered by the SS during the mass executions at Babi Yar in September 1941.
[Photo credit: Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Yelena Brusilovsky Collection]
[Photo credit: Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Yelena Brusilovsky Collection]
Jews in Wuerzburg, Germany, on the way to concentration camps (1942)
[Photo Credit: U.S. National Archives]
[Photo Credit: U.S. National Archives]
The main entrance of Auschwitz Extermination Camp, with its infamous motto "Work Makes One Free."
Children subjected to medical experiments in Auschwitz.
[from The Pictorial History of the Holocaust, ed. Yitzhak Arad. New York: Macmillan, 1990]
[from The Pictorial History of the Holocaust, ed. Yitzhak Arad. New York: Macmillan, 1990]
Buchenwald prisoners in nearby woods just before their execution. (1933)
[Photo Credit: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Lorenz Schmuhl Collection]
[Photo Credit: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Lorenz Schmuhl Collection]