The Holocaust
Photos – Past and Present
Six thousand wait for disinfection
Prisoners’ shoes
Auschwitz gas chamber today
Prisoners awaiting execution in the forest near a camp
Barracks
Mass grave at Belsen
Barracks today at Birkenau
Toilets in a women’s barrack in Birkenau
Leftover bone pieces from the crematorium ovens
Prisoner orchestra
Crematoria ovens used to burn bodies
Entrance to Dachau Camp
Prisoners on a death march
Another death march
A death march through a village
Death train (notice the bodies in the train)
Deportation from a ghetto
Prisoners digging their own graves before being executed
Prisoners being executed at the edge of a mass grave
Prisoners kneel at the edge of the mass grave
Prisoner was forced
to stand for hours as
punishment
Entrance to a gas
chamber as it appears
today
Auschwitz gas chamber in 1945
Chimney
as it appears today
outside the ovens
Nazi guards standing around talking during roll call
Hitler
Hitler viewing his troops
Yellow star on a
Jewish house
Bags of hair shaved from the prisoners
Jewish children
inside a camp
Survivors in a camp
Mass grave
Children used in medical experiments
High-pressure experiments on a prisoner
Nazi doctors holding a prisoner under water
as part of an experiment
Dr Mengele is the bottom-left picture.
Prisoners lined up for roll call
Prisoners on the way to lunch
Crematoria oven as
it appears today
Fire pit used to burn bodies
Soldiers kicking and beating a Jew in the streets
Prisoner execution
Eyeglasses taken from the prisoners
Prisoner orchestra
Rings taken from prisoners
Silverware taken from prisoners
Prisoners lined up for roll call
Warehouse filled with prisoners’ clothing and shoes
Soldiers shooting Jews on the city streets
Gas chambers disguised as showers
Shrunken head that
doctors used for
medical experiments
Survivor found by British soldiers
Prisoners
Boxes of teeth taken from prisoners
Toilets in a women’s
barracks as they
appear today
Soldiers having the Jews undress as they enter the camp
US Soldiers executing camp guards and officers
Prisoners being shaved upon entering the camp
Elie Wiesel is actually pictured in his bunk.
Gate at Auschwitz translates to “Work makes one free.”
Yellow Star of David
that all Jews were
required to wear