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Pictures From
World War II
In World War II there were many reasons given for why we fought. Many said it was because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, but the most horrible reason became apparent when our soldiers finally broke through the Nazi lines and found the Death Camps where the Jewish People were being slaughtered for their religion. The cruel and inhuman treatment of the Jewish People should have been the only reason that we, as Americans who treasure the freedom of religion, should have needed to fight. This page is not only dedicated to the brave soldiers who gave their lives in this War but also to all the Jewish People who died or suffered in the Death Camps of the Nazis.
All photos are courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Musuem.
Death March of prisoners from Dachau (April 1945) KZ Gedenkstatte Dachau
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Railway cars loaded with the corpses of prisoners who died on route to Dachau from other concentration camps (April 30, 1945) Nationl Archives
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View of the execution wall next to Block 11 in the Auschwitz I camp after liberation (Jan. 29, 1945) National Archives
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A victim of medical experiments at Auschwitz sits with a bandaged head in an infirmary (ca 1945) William Gallagher
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Prisoners at Auschwitz greet their liberators. (Jan. 27, 1945) Central State Archives of Film, Photo and Phonographic Documents
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Inmates at the gate to Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Jan. 27, 1945) National Archives
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Survivors in Dachau (May 1945) USHMM
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Survivors in Dachau after liberation (May 1945) USHMM
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Jewish children, kept alive in the Auschwitz II (Birkenau) Concentration Camp, pose in concentration camp uniforms between two rows of barbed wire fencing after liberation. (Jan. 27, 1945) Still photo from a Postwar Soviet Film. Central State Archive of film, Photo, and Phonographic Documents
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Among those pictured are: Tomasz Szwarz; Alicja Gruenbaum; Salomea Rozalin; Gita Sztrauss; Wiera Sadler; Marta Wiess; Word Eksztein; Josef Rozenwaser; Rafael Szlezinger; Gabriel Nejman; Gugiel Appelbaum; Pesa Balter (second from the left) arrived in Auschwitz in Aug 1944 at the age of 11.
Former women prisoners on the wooden bunks that served as beds, in Auschwitz Concetration Camp. (Jan. 27, 1945) Still Photo from a Soviet Film at the National Archives
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Corpses of women piled upon the floor of Block 11. (Feb. 1945) Glowna Komisja Badania Zbrodni Przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
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American soldiers view a pile of human remains outside the crematorium in Buchenwald (April 1945) USHMM
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Congressman Ed V. Isak of California, a member of a Congressional Delegation that travelled to Germany to view evidence of Nazi atrocities, looking at human remains in a crematorium oven. (April 24, 1945) USHMM
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