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 forcedto stand for hours as

punishment

Entrance to a gas chamber as it appearstoday

Auschwitz gas chamber in 1945

Chimney as it appears todayoutside 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 childreninside 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 asit 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 Davidthat all Jews wererequired to wear