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John Demjanjuk: A Former Sobibor Concentration Camp Guard Living in America?

What is Ohio resident John Demjanjuk accused of? According to Der Spiegel, Demjanjuk may be an accessory to the murder of 29,000 people: On March 10, the State Public Prosecutor in Munich issued an arrest warrant against Demjanjuk, first making … Continue reading

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: The Story of Jadwiga Hassa

Jadwiga Hassa, a Christian woman who was part of the resistance against the Nazis in Poland, was arrested by the Gestapo and ultimately ended up in Ravensbrueck concentration camp. The U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive tells her story this way: She … Continue reading

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: In 1939, a Boy Poses with His Grandparents before Leaving Poland for Australia

Both of his grandparents died in the Holocaust. The boy’s name: Jankiel Garbasz His grandparent’s names: Israel and Sara Garbasz Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: The Liberation of Auschwitz, January, 1945

This image was taken at the Tzebnia sub-camp at Auschwitz, AFTER its liberation.  A physician is looking at a little girl. Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Destitute Ghetto Inhabitant in Winter, circa 1940

Source: U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archive

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Studio Portrait of a Jewish Family Living in Poland Before the Holocaust

Portrait of a Jewish family in Poland. 90% of Polish Jews died during the Holocaust.

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: A Jewish Man with a Wicker Chair Arrives at the “Judenramp” (Auschwitz-Birkenau, May, 1944)

Source: US Holocaust Museum archive

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Stacked Corpses

The above photograph, according to the U.S. Holocaust Museum website, was taken at Ohrdruf on April 6, 1945. More “Bearing Witness to the Holocaust” photos here and here and here.

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: German Execution of Poles in Leszno (October 1939)

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: After the War, Looking into Death Camp Ovens

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Mass Grave at Bergen-Belsen, May, 1945

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Edith Bruck’s Poem, “Pretty Soon”

Edith Bruck, a concentration camp survivor, was a filmmaker, playwright, and poet. After the war, she lived in Israel and Italy. This is her poem, “Pretty Soon”: Pretty soon when people hear a quiz show expert talk about Auschwitz they’ll … Continue reading

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Children Experimented upon at Auschwitz

  The children above were subject to medical experimentation by the Auschwitz doctor, Horst Schumann. The blackening of their bodies was probably the product of burns from exposure to high dosage radiation, but the specific experiments conducted upon these particular children is … Continue reading

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Buchenwald, 1945

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: German Police, Laughing at—and Tormenting—a Jew in Rzeszow, Poland

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Image of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia Arriving at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May-June 1944

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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Allied Footage of the Liberation of Dachau and Bergen-Belsen

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