By Staff
Title: USHMM photo documents, 1933-1945
Predominant Dates:1939 -- 1945
ID: RG-67/
Primary Creator: Various agencies and individuals (1933 -- 1945)
Extent: 1.0 Boxes
Subjects: Aftermath of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, ruins of the Warsaw ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland: Concentration Camp), Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration Camp), Buchenwald (Germany: concentration camp), Chelmno (Poland: Extermination Center), Children's Homes for Jewish refugee children in France, 1940 -- 1944, Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945, Crematoria in the Nazi-German concentration camps, Dachau war crimes trial, Doctrines and provisions of National Socialism, Dora-Mittelbau (Concentration camp), Dora-Mittelbau (Germany: labor camp), Emigration attempts from Nazi Germany, Emigration to the United States, rejection of applications, wartime, Europe (1939 -- 1945), evidences of the crimes of National Socialist regime, Gurs (France: Internment Camp), Jasenovac (Yugoslavia: Concentration Camp), Jewish refugee children in southern France, 1940 -- 1944, Judischer Ordnungdienst (or Jüdische Ghetto-Polizei, Jewish Ghetto Police), Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England, Majdanek (Poland: Concentration Camp), Mauthausen (Austria: Concentration Camp), National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945, National Socialism, theory and regime, National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945, National Socialist government of Germany, foreign politics, Opposition to National Socialism outside Germany, 1933 -- 1945, Oscar Schindler, rescue and aid giver, Cracow, Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945, Photo-documents of the Holocaust, Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps, Prisoners, Jewish, Prisoners, Jewish, Auschwitz complex of camps, Sachsenhausen (Germany: Concentration Camp), Stutthof (Poland: Concentration Camp), The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945, Treblinka (Poland: extermination camp), Voyage of the St. Louis, May -- June 1939, war crimes trials, Nazi Germans, Warsaw (Poland: ghetto), Westerbork (Netherlands: Transit Camp)
Largerly these photo-documents relate to the Final Solution of the Jewish Question as well as to the Nazi-German atrocities and perpetration in the course of 1933 --1945
-67, USHMM photo documents. Finding Aids
This is a collection of photo-documents duplicated with the permission and copyright clearness of the USHMM.
RG-67.01, USHMM, The public burning of un-German books by members of the SA and university students on the Opernplatz in Berlin. Still from a motion picture
RG-67.02, USHMM, Mug-shot of Leopold Engleitner, a Jehovah's Witness arrested for his religious beliefs
RG-67.03, USHMM, Adolf Hitler greets Neville Chamberlain upon the British Prime Minister's arrival in Munich
RG-67.04, USHMM, German Jewish youth who are members of a hachshara (Zionist collective) at the Westerbork concentration camp, dance the hora
RG-67.05, USHMM, An advertisement for a lecture series given in New York City by Varian Fry
RG-67.06, USHMM, Varian Fry walking along the street in Marseilles
RG-67.07, USHMM, An estimated 100,000 people participate in a march from Madison Square Garden to the Battery to protest the Nazi persecution of German Jews
RG-67.08, Camps Bergen Belsen, USHMM, A survivor sits on a railing with his back to the camera outside hospital barracks no. 2 (for Jews) at the Ebensee concentration camp
RG-67.09, Camps Bergen Belsen, USHMM, A mass grave in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
RG-67.10, Camps Bergen Belsen, USHMM, Women survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp stand and sit behind the fence of the camp
RG-67.11, Camps Bergen Belsen, USHMM, A female survivor and other women lie, covered in blankets, on the floor of a barracks in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation
RG-67.12, Camps Bergen Belsen, USHMM, Evacuating female political prisoners from Bergen-Belsen
RG-67.13, Camps Bergen Belsen, USHMM, An emaciated survivor sits on a stretcher in Bergen-Belsen
RG-67.14, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, Young survivors behind a barbed wire fence in Buchenwald concentration camp. Among those pictured is Abram Zylbersztajn (middle)
RG-67.15, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, Prisoners at roll call in Buchenwald concentration camp
RG-67.16, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, Five handicapped Jewish prisoners, photographed for propaganda purposes, who arrived in Buchenwald after Kristallnacht
RG-67.17, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, Newly arrived Polish prisoners at roll call in Buchenwald concentration camp
RG-67.18, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, Young survivor of Buchenwald poses with a soldier
RG-67.19, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, Prisoners at forced labor on the assembly line of the Gustloff Werke II munitions plant in the Buchenwald concentration camp
RG-67.20, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, Prisoners from the Buchenwald concentration camp at forced labor building the Weimar-Buchenwald railroad line
RG-67.21, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, A survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp displays his tattooed arm
RG-67.22, Camps Buchenwald, USHMM, Survivors lie on wooden bunks that are four tiers high in a barracks in the Buchenwald concentration camp
RG-67.23, Camps Chelmno, USHMM, A large group of men is seating on the ground with their hands on their heads in the Chelmno killing center
RG-67.24, Camps Chelmno, USHMM, The belongings of Jews gassed at Chelmno cover the floor of a synagogue in nearby Kolo, where prisoners were kept before they were taken by truck to the killing center
RG-67.25, Camps Dora, USHMM, The corpses of prisoners laid out for mass burial in the Nordhausen concentration camp
RG-67.26, Camps Dora, USHMM, German civilians removing corpses from the Nordhausen concentration camp for burial in mass graves
RG-67.27, Camps Dora, USHMM, American soldiers walk among corpses that are laid out in rows in the Nordhausen concentration camp
RG-67.28, Camps Dora, USHMM, Close-up portrait of an emaciated survivor wearing only the shirt of his uniform [probably in the Nordhausen concentration camp]
RG-67.29, Camps Gurs, USHMM, Four female prisoners stand outside a barracks behind a barbed-wire fence in Ilot L at the Gurs transit camp. This photograph was shot secretly by Alice Resch-Synnestvedt
RG-67.30, Camps Gurs, USHMM, Group portrait of Jewish prisoners in the Gurs transit camp. Samuel Liebermensch is pictured at the center
RG-67.31, Camps Jasenovac, USHMM, Ustasa guards confiscate the possessions of newly arrived prisoners in the Jasenovac concentration camp
RG-67.32, Camps Jasenovac, USHMM, View of the Jasenovac concentration camp
RG-67.33, Camps Jasenovac, USHMM, Ustasa militia execute prisoners near the Jasenovac concentration camp
RG-67.34, Camps Jasenovac, USHMM, Serbs and Gypsies who have been rounded up for deportation are marched to the Jasenovac concentration camp under Ustasa guard
RG-67.35, Camps Jasenovac, USHMM, Serbian prisoners interned in Jasenovac
RG-67.36, Camps Majdanek, USHMM, Prisoners at forced labor at the Majdanek concentration camp
RG-67.37, Camps Majdanek, USHMM, A section of the prisoners' barracks in Majdanek
RG-67.38, Camps Mauthausen, USHMM, Prisoners carry large stones up the stairs of death (Todesstiege) from the Wiener Graben quarry at the Mauthausen concentration camp
RG-67.39, Camps Mauthausen, USHMM, Interior view of a gas chamber the Mauthausen concentration camp. Original text reads This is the gas chamber, note how it looks like a shower room. Camp Mauthausen
RG-67.40, Camps Mauthausen, USHMM, Disabled Polish and Russian survivors stand in front of a tank from the 11th Armored Division, Third U. S. Army, in the Mauthausen concentration camp
RG-67.41, Camps Mauthausen, USHMM, 6,000 naked prisoners are assembled in the courtyard of the Mauthausen concentration camp where they await disinfection
RG-67.42, Camps Mauthausen, USHMM, Heinrich Himmler confers with SS officers while visiting the Mauthausen concentration camp. Heinrich Himmler is pictured on the left
RG-67.43, Camps Mauthausen, USHMM, Prisoners liberated from Mauthausen, many crowded into a wooden bunk, celebrate their liberation by the American 11th Armored Division
RG-67.44, Camps Mauthausen, USHMM, Cheering survivors greet American troops as the first Allied tanks enter the Mauthausen concentration camp
RG-67.45, Camps Sachsenhausen Gross-Rosen, USHMM, The Biesinitzer Grund (Goerlitz) concentration camp, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen, after liberation
RG-67.46, Camps Treblinka, USHMM, Families disembark train
RG-67.47, Camps Treblinka, USHMM, Treblinka building
RG-67.48, Camps Treblinka, USHMM, Jews who have been expelled from the town of Plock are resettled in Chmielnik
RG-67.49, Camps Treblinka, USHMM, Soldier entering into building
RG-67.50, Camps Westerbork, USHMM, A group of Jewish inmates works at a construction site in the Westerbork transit camp. Kurt Majerowicz is pictured in the front
RG-67.51, Camps Westerbork, USHMM, Two Jewish children share a bicycle outside one of the barracks in the Westerbork internment camp. Pictured on the left is Michael Fink
RG-67.52, Camps Westerbork, USHMM, Group portrait of Jewish school children and their teachers, all of whom are wearing Jewish stars, in the Westerbork transit camp.
RG-67.53, USHMM, German civilians from the town of Nordhausen bury the bodies of former prisoners found in the Nordhausen concentration camp in a mass grave
RG-67.54, USHMM, Members of the Ordedienst, the Jewish Police in Westerbork, direct an arriving transport of Dutch Jews into the camp. The policeman in the center is A. Schoenfliess
RG-67.55, USHMM, Department of State letter from the chief of the Visa Division H.K. Travers to Grete Izes, rejecting her application to enter the United States
RG-67.56, USHMM, Jewish refugee children, who are members of the first Kindertransport from Germany, arrive in Harwich, England. The girl with the doll is Helga Kreiner
RG-67.57, USHMM, View of the Gurs transit camp from the camp water tower
RG-67.58, USHMM, Oskar Schindler with his horse on the grounds of the Emalia enamelworks in Krakow-Zablocie
RG-67.59, USHMM, Jewish youth living in the La Guespy children's home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, pose with Juliette Usach
RG-67.60, USHMM, An aerial photograph of the Treblinka area
RG-67.61, USHMM, A view of the Auschwitz II camp showing the barracks of the camp
RG-67.62, USHMM, A view of the Majdanek concentration camp after liberation
RG-67.63, USHMM, Crematorium
RG-67.64, USHMM, Ruins of the Warsaw ghetto
RG-67.65, USHMM, Photograph of young male child
RG-67.66, USHMM, Jewish Prisoner Mug Shots in Auschwitz
RG-67.67, USHMM, A view of the fences that enclosed Majdanek
RG-67.68, USHMM, Jewish refugees aboard the SS St. Louis attempt to communicate with friends and relatives in Cuba, who were permitted to approach the docked vessel in small boats
RG-67.69, USHMM, The first prisoners at Stutthof eat during a break in the construction of the camp
RG-67.70, USHMM, Defendant Otto Schulz sits at the dock during the Dachau war crimes trial
RG-67.71, USHMM, Seated male prisoner with feet shackled
RG-67.72, USHMM, Newly arrived Polish prisoners lined up for registration in Buchenwald concentration camp
RG-67.73, USHMM, Still in their civilian clothes, newly arrived Czech prisoners, among whom is a clergyman, stand at roll call in Buchenwald concentration camp
RG-67.74, USHMM, German citizens saluting Adolf Hitler at the opening of the 11th Olympiad in Berlin
RG-67.75, USHMM, The Jewish obstetrician, Dr. László Halmos, stands behind the examination table in his office on Vodna Street in Kosice
RG-67.76, USHMM, Group of women knitting
RG-67.77, USHMM, Men disembarking from ship
RG-67.78, USHMM, View of the packed courtroom of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Lawyers for the prosecution are at the bottom, the defendants on the left, and judges on the right
RG-67.79, USHMM, U. S. Deputy Chief of Counsel Charles M. LaFollette at the podium during the Justice Case. Behind him is the prosecution team
USHMM_16817, The courtroom during the Krupp Trial
RG-67.80, USHMM, The members of the Tribunal listen to the proceedings of the High Command Case. Seated from left to right are Winfield B. Hale, Presiding Justice John C. Young, and Justin W
RG-67.81, USHMM, View of the SS President Warfield (later the Exodus 1947) before it was sent to Europe to ferry illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine
RG-67.82, USHMM, Entrance gate and soldier
RG-67.83, USHMM, Soldiers stand alongside corpses
RG-67.84, USHMM, Deportation, men carrying belongings outside storefront
RG-67.85, USHMM, View of the crematoria ovens at Majdanek with piles of bones in front of them
RG-67.86, USHMM, Survivors in a tent city set up at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
RG-67.87, USHMM, Jewish forced laborers pose next to a truck in Bulgaria
RG-67.88, USHMM, Eight emaciated naked children
RG-67.89, USHMM, A group of SS officers, a woman and a dog stand on the grounds of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Anton Thumann is pictured third from the right
RG-67.90, USHMM, Bulgarian Jews dig a road in a forced labor brigade
RG-67.91, USHMM, Jewish and Bulgarian officers socialize outside a canteen at the site of a
forced labor battalion. Nissim Farhi supervised the canteen
RG-67.92, USHMM, Letter written by Varian Fry to the American consul at the U. S. embassy in Vichy seeking his help in obtaining an exit visa for Walter Meyerhof
RG-67.93, USHMM, Mug shot of Dachau Camp Commandant from 1942-1943, Martin Gottfried Weiss, who was arrested when the camp was liberated by American forces on April 29, 1945
RG-67.94, USHMM, A warehouse filled with containers of Zyklon B (poison gas pellets) at the Majdanek death camp
RG-67.95, USHMM, A Polish POW stands at attention in the roll call area (Appellplatz) at the Stutthof concentration camp
RG-67.96, USHMM, Group portrait of Jewish forced laborers at the Belzec camp
RG-67.97, USHMM, Three members of the SS staff in Gross-Rosen pose holding six piglets. The adjutant to the commandant, Kuno Schramm, is standing on the left
RG-67.98, USHMM, The commandant of Gross-Rosen, Arthur Roedl
RG-67.99, USHMM, The bodies of prisoners who perished during the evacuation of Auschwitz-Birkenau lie covered in snow on the main street of the camp immediately after the liberation
RG-67.100, USHMM, The corpses of prisoners lie in the snow outside a barracks in Auschwitz-Birkenau immediately after the liberation. Original caption Some more leftovers
RG-67.101, USHMM, Group of males with suitcases
RG-67.102, USHMM, View of the bone crushing machine used by Sonderkommando 1005 in the Janowska concentration camp to grind the bones of victims after their bodies were burned
RG-67.103, USHMM, Postwar sketch of the layout of the Belzec death camp by Belzec survivor Rudolf Reder
RG-67.104, USHMM, Sachsenhausen prisoners, wearing uniforms with triangular badges, stand in columns under the supervision of a camp guard
RG-67.105, USHMM, A transport of Jews from Subcarpathian Rus is taken off the trains and assembled on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Pictured in the front is Heinrich Preiss, a member of the Kanada commando
RG-67.106, USHMM, Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus await selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
RG-67.107, USHMM, Elderly Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus sit next to a railcar in Auschwitz-Birkenau prior to being sent to the gas chambers. One of the men wears a scarf to cover his shaven face
RG-67.108, USHMM, Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus having undergone selection are about to be gassed at Auschwitz-Birkenau
RG-67.108.01, USHMM, Jews from Subcarpathian Rus undergo a selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, on the left is an SS physician examining a Jewish man. In the foreground is Geza Lajtbs of Budapest
RG-67.109, USHMM, Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers
RG-67.109.01 ,USHMM, Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers
RG-67.110, USHMM, Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, wait to be taken to the gas chambers
RG-67.110.01, USHMM, Jewish men from Subcarpathian Rus selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau wait to be taken to the gas chambers
RG-67.111, USHMM, Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers
RG-67.112, USHMM, Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers
RG-67.113, USHMM, Jewish women from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for forced labor at Auschwitz-Birkenau, wait for further processing after disinfection and headshaving
RG-67.114, USHMM, Prisoners in the Aufräumungskommando (order commandos) unload the confiscated property of a transport of Jews from Subcarpathian Rus at a warehouse in Auschwitz-Birkenau
RG-67.115, USHMM, Auschwitz women inmates sort through a huge pile of shoes from the transport of Hungarian Jews
RG-67.116, USHMM, Chiune Sugihara sits behind a desk in his office
RG-67.117, USHMM, Three young Jewish DPs look out of the window of their train holding a homemade Zionist flag as they depart from Buchenwald on the first leg of their journey to Palestine
RG-67.118, USHMM, A young Jewish women writes her last letter before boarding the deportation train to Chelmno
RG-67.119, USHMM, Female prisoners in the Aufräumungskommando (order commandos) sort the confiscated property of a transport of Jews from Subcarpathian Rus at a warehouse in Auschwitz-Birkenau
RG-67.120, USHMM, A naked prisoner is led to an execution site in the Stutthof concentration camp, where others either have been shot already or forced to lie face down prior to being shot
RG-67.121, USHMM, Pile of abandoned shoes
RG-67.122, USHMM, The prisoners' orchestra in Buchenwald concentration camp
RG-67.123, USHMM, View of the French village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
RG-67.124, USHMM, Juliette Usach and four boys sit beneath a sign directing the way to Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
RG-67.125, USHMM, A female survivor at Bergen-Belsen
RG-67.126, USHMM, Crematoria at Majdanek
RG-67.127, USHMM, Sobibor Sign
RG-67.128, USHMM, Varian Fry
RG-67.129, USHMM, Close-up of a Gypsy couple sitting in an open area in the Belzec concentration camp
RG-67.130, USHMM, Pile of suitcases in front of building
RG-67.131, USHMM, Smiling couple holding child
RG-67.132, USHMM, The courtroom during the Krupp Trial
Aftermath of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, ruins of the Warsaw ghetto
Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland: Concentration Camp)
Bergen-Belsen (Germany: Concentration Camp)
Buchenwald (Germany: concentration camp)
Chelmno (Poland: Extermination Center)
Children's Homes for Jewish refugee children in France, 1940 -- 1944
Concentration camps in Germany, 1933 -- 1945
Crematoria in the Nazi-German concentration camps
Dachau war crimes trial
Doctrines and provisions of National Socialism
Dora-Mittelbau (Concentration camp)
Dora-Mittelbau (Germany: labor camp)
Emigration attempts from Nazi Germany
Emigration to the United States, rejection of applications, wartime
Europe (1939 -- 1945)
evidences of the crimes of National Socialist regime
Gurs (France: Internment Camp)
Jasenovac (Yugoslavia: Concentration Camp)
Jewish refugee children in southern France, 1940 -- 1944
Judischer Ordnungdienst (or Jüdische Ghetto-Polizei, Jewish Ghetto Police)
Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children
Kindertransport, Jewish refugee children, arrival to England
Majdanek (Poland: Concentration Camp)
Mauthausen (Austria: Concentration Camp)
National - Socialist regime in Germany, 1933 -- 1945
National Socialism, theory and regime
National Socialism in Germany, persecution of political opponents, 1933 -- 1945
National Socialist government of Germany, foreign politics
Opposition to National Socialism outside Germany, 1933 -- 1945
Oscar Schindler, rescue and aid giver, Cracow
Photo-documents and evidences of Nazi crimes against humanity and war crimes, 1939 -- 1945
Photo-documents of the Holocaust
Photo-documents of the Nazi-German concentration camps
Prisoners, Jewish
Prisoners, Jewish, Auschwitz complex of camps
Sachsenhausen (Germany: Concentration Camp)
Stutthof (Poland: Concentration Camp)
The Holocaust in Europe, 1939 -- 1945
Treblinka (Poland: extermination camp)
Voyage of the St. Louis, May -- June 1939
war crimes trials, Nazi Germans
Warsaw (Poland: ghetto)
Westerbork (Netherlands: Transit Camp)
This photo-document is from the USHMM collection of photographs taken at the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex in Poland.
This particular photograph shows a group of women and children from the Subcarpathian Rus region, selected for death and awaiting entry into the gas chambers.
USHMM, Auschwitz-Birkenau, ca. 1940
