Sunday, March 7, 2010

Former Holocaust Prisoner Tattoo



A Holocaust survivor shows tattoo.

For More Information Regarding the Holocaust, Follow These Links

1- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/

2- Holocaust Survivors & Remembrance Project
http://www.isurvived.org/

3- Jewish Virtual Library
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/

Hollywood Movies about The Holocaust



Transit Camps



This is a picture of Westerbork Transit Camp. It was located in Holland and opened by the Germans in July 1942. It was an official transit camp where the SS would determine who was able to work and who would be sent to the extermination camps.

Extermination Camps



This is a picture of the manor house at Chelmno that became the site of the first Nazi extermination camp in Poland in December 1941. Estimates are between 150,000 to 300,000 Jews were killed at this camp.

Map of Nazi Concentration Camps- January 1944



This is a map of the major Nazi concentration camps in Europe, January 1944.

Forced Labor Camps



Ravensbrueck concentration camp was opened in 1940. It is just one of thousands of forced labor camps set up by the Nazis during World War II.

Dachau Concentration Camp



Dachau was the first concentration camp opened by the Nazis in 1933. It is located in Southern Germany near the town of Munich.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Prisoners Boarding Trains



Jewish police give assistance to Westerbork prisoners who are boarding the deportation train. (1942 - 1945)

Holocaust Line Ups



Jews were forced to attend daily line ups which could last hours.

Holocaust Barracks



The photograph above is a still shot from a film made by Soviet soldiers in February 1945 after Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. The photo shows two women in the foreground who are lying on a brick stove. These women chose to stay behind when the camp was evacuated on January 18, 1945.

Holocaust Shoes




These tiny shoes belong to a little girl named Doris Mathes. She was born June 14, 1942 and died in a gas chamber in Auschwitz on January 17, 1944.

Holocaust Prisoner Uniform



This striped prisoner's jacket originally belonged to a German Capo (trustee). Harry Liwerant took it when he was on a death march that passed through Blechhammer, a sub-camp of Auschwitz. The uniforms of ordinary prisoners were not lined and not tailored and often little more than rags.

Concentraion Camp Cap



After she was deported from Theresienstadt to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942, Karel Bruml had worn this cap as a forced laborer in the Buna synthetic rubber works which was located in the Buna-Monowitz section of the camp.