Photo Archive of the Holocaust, 1939-1945 | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

A collection of photo-documents from the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and from the other repositories.

Overall, these are secondary photo-documents reflecting Nazi-German atrocities, life in the ghettos and concentration camps and day-to-day life in the German-occupied and controlled territories

A collection of secondary materials gathered for the purpose of exhibit-building for the new Museum building opening in October 2010. The secondary materials were gathered from other institution, historical publications and educational material, and resources available to the public through the internet. As these documents were gathered for exhibit research, not all images were used for the permanent exhibit. Information on images used throughout the museum in its permanent exhibit can be found in reference to Museum Curatorship documents.  In this record group, there is one sub-collection of negatives that has its own finding aid. In terms of regional affiliation, this record group comprises images of the big ghettos, such as Warsaw, Lodz, as well as from the smaller ghettos like Tarnów, Zablocie. Therefore the images are organized roughly according to region and theme but have no sub-collections.

RG-45.01, Negatives

RG-45.01.01, All That Remained Photo Montage

Accession #: 82.44

Accession Date: 19 February 1982

Photo montage of piles of glasses, combs, hair, shoes, shaving brushes, toothbrushes, artificial limbs, and dishes

RG-45.01.02, Caption about humanitarian documents. The caption starts with “Read how the most righteous humanitarian documents called ‘Statement of the German Atrocities’ signed by Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill did not list the name of a Jew under its victims in Sept. 1944…”

RG-45.01.03, Caption only for Nazi notice for executed Poles, names of those who hid Jews underlined

Accession #: 84.84

Accession Date: 30 April 1984

Caption only, for Nazi notice for executed Poles, names of those who hid Jews underlined

RG-45.01.04, Captions only, starting with Deportation of German Jews

Accession #: 84.84

Accession Date: 30 April 1984

Captions, starting with “Deportation of German Jews.” Part of Jewish Federation Captions

RG-45.01.05, Captions only, starting with November 1938 Aryanization

Accession #: 84.84

Accession Date: 30 April 1984

Captions only, starting with November 1938 Aryanization. Part of Jewish Federation Captions

RG-45.01.06, Children not able to leave - Zbaszyn, Poland, 1939

Dated: 1939

Accession #: 82.361

Accession Date: 25 October 1982

A group of German Jewish children from German Jewish families expelled to, but not accepted by, Poland. Jewish relief organizations stepped in to organize a transport of the children to England, but the Germans invaded Poland before the transport

RG-45.01.07, Corpses in Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau, Photo Montage, 1945

Accession #: 82.56

Accession Date: 22 February 1982

Photographs of atrocities at Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau camps. Photo montage of piles of corpses and human bones

RG-45.01.08, Daily Mirror editorial about the rejection of St. Louis, 1939

Dated: 6 June 1939

Accession #: 8147

An editorial article in the Daily Mirror about the 907 Jewish refugees on the St. Louis refused entrance to America

RG-45.01.09, Demonic Germany and the Predicament of Humanity, 1938

Dated: 30 November 1938

Accession #: 8147

An article condemning Germany but also opposing immigration of European Jews into the United States on the grounds of the need for social integration of already-existing minority groups. Written in The Christian Century

RG-45.01.10, Gideon Hausner, opening address of Eichmann Trial

Accession #: 82.66

Accession Date: 22 February 1982

A photograph of Gideon Hausner, Chief Prosecutor of the Eichmann Trial, next to a quote from his opening address at the trial

RG-45.01.11, Jewish Federation Titles and Captions

Accession #: 84.84

Accession Date: 30 April 1984

Four sheets of negatives with titles and captions

RG-45.01.12, Jewish Prisoners Waiting and Excerpt from “The Auschwitz Album.” A photograph of Jewish prisoners waiting in the forest and an excerpt from Lili Meir from “The Auschwitz Album” describing the scene and deception before prisoners entered into the gas chambers

RG-45.01.13, Letter from Polish Marshall Rola-Zymienski Recognizing Help from Jewish Partisans

Dated: 21 December

Accession #: 84.84

Accession Date: 30 April 1984

A letter from Polish Marshall Rola-Zymienski recognizing and appreciating services from Jewish Partisans

RG-45.01.14, New York Times Kristallnacht Article, 1938 (negative)

Dated: 11 November 1938

Accession #: 3892 ? (Number on envelope)

New York Times article from Friday, November 11, 1938 about Kristallnacht, titled “Nazis Smash, Loot, and Burn Jewish Shops and Temples Until Goebbels Calls Halt.” Smaller headlines include “All Vienna’s Synagogues Attacked; Fires and Bombs Wreck 18 of 21” and “Jews are Beaten, Furniture and Goods Flung from Homes and Shops—15,000 are Jailed During Day—20 are Suicides,” 2 copies

RG-45.01.15, NY Times Kristallnacht article (same as above, but not negative)

RG-45.01.16, NY Times Warsaw Ghetto article, Secret Polish Radio asks Aid, Cut off

RG-45.01.17, Photo and Excerpt from the Auschwitz Album, Carpathian Jews. A photograph of Jews arriving by train and an excerpt from “The Auschwitz Album” describing some of the conditions on the trains

RG-45.01.18, Police Officer Hoffmann Report to Gestapo concerning the Jewish Question, 1943

Accession #: 82.38

Accession Date: 15 February 1982

RG-45.01.19, Quote from President of Bulgarian State Counsel

Accession #: 84.75

Quote from President of Bulgarian State Counsel regarding Bulgarian Jews

RG-45.01.20, Selection at Auschwitz

RG-45.01.21, Soap Factory near Danzig

Accession #: 82.105

Accession Date: 8 March 1982

Three photos of the interior of a “soap factory” near Danzig. While there is no evidence that human fat was used for soap on an industrial scale as rumors suggest, there allegedly were some experiments conducted with that concept

RG-45.01.22, Theresienstadt Ghetto gate with Arbeit macht frei sign

RG-45.01.23, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Monument Photo and Caption Accession #: 82.61

Accession Date: 22 February 1982

Photograph of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Monument and brief explanation of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

RG-45.01.24, Watchtower and Barbed Wire. Negative of a watchtower and electric barbed wire on fences

RG-45.02, Secondary photo-documents

RG-45.02.01, a concentration camp at liberation

RG-45.02.02, A Jewish order policeman with his wife and son, Lodz ghetto

RG-45.02.03, Adam Czerniakow at the roll call with the Jewish order police, Lodz ghetto

RG-45.02.04, Adam Czerniakow in his Warsaw ghetto Judenrat office at the meeting

RG-45.02.05, Adam Czerniakow with a German official, Warsaw

RG-45.02.06, Albert Einstein

RG-45.02.07, Alexander Pecherskij, led the Sobibor revolt

RG-45.02.08, Arriving to a camp

RG-45.02.09, Auschwitz, deposit of spoons

RG-45.02.10, Auschwitz negative

RG-45.02.11, Auschwitz, a column of women and children, allegedly in Auschwitz

RG-45.02.12, pile of shoes, Auschwitz

RG-45.02.13, Auschwitz, arrival of a transport

RG-45.02.14, Auschwitz, 'Canada' prisoners' toothbrushes, cloth brushes, and other personal items

RG-45.02.15, Auschwitz, children survivors of the camp and medical experiments

RG-45.02.16, Auschwitz, forced labor site

RG-45.02.17, Auschwitz, selection on the ramp after arrival

RG-45.02.18, Auschwitz, sorting out the former possessions of prisoners

RG-45.02.19, Auschwitz, survivor of Auschwitz medical experiments

RG-45.02.20, Auschwitz, unloading prisoners' luggage

RG-45.02.21, Auschwitz, view of a cattle car, trains, and German soldiers, MISSING PHOTO

RG-45.02.22, Babi Yar, USHMM, 28363

RG-45.02.23, Baranow, Poland, a Hebrew School

RG-45.02.24, Baranow, a Hebrew School

RG-45.02.25, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, arrival of prisoners

RG-45.02.26, Bergen-Belsen, prisoners by barracks are lined up

RG-45.02.27, Cracow, a group of Jewish students after the tour

RG-45.02.28, Cracow, school photograph, Jewish coeducational gymnasium, female graduates

RG-45.02.29, Deportation of Jews from a West European country, MISSING PHOTO

RG-45.02.30, Drancy transit camp, wall with inscriptions

RG-45.02.31, Drancy transit camp

RG-45.02.32, German administration in civilian diner in Lodz

RG-45.02.33, German officer takes a photograph of the religious Jews in Zablocie, Poland

RG-45.02.34, German soldier cuts off the beard of a Jewish man, humiliation scene, MISSING PHOTO

RG-45.02.35, Germany, early 1930s, Book burning

RG-45.02.36, Group portrait of members of the Lodz ghetto police

RG-45.02.37, Hans Biebow in the Lodz ghetto

RG-45.02.38, Hitler after being released from the Landsberg Prison where he spent eight months

RG-45.02.39, Hitler and a child in SA uniform, 1942

RG-45.02.40, Holland, deportation, a street scene

RG-45.02.41, Janowska Camp, Lwow, Camp Orchestra

RG-45.02.42, Jewish order police arresting two Jewish youths for smuggling in the Warsaw ghetto

RG-45.02.43, Jewish order police in Lodz ghetto

RG-45.02.44, Jewish order police on snow removal duty in Lodz

RG-45.02.45, Jewish order police, Bundesarchiv

RG-45.02.46, Jewish police action in Warsaw ghetto

RG-45.02.47, Jewish policemen convoy a group of Jews, MISSING PHOTO

RG-45.02.48, Jewish service to maintain order, Ordungsdienst

RG-45.02.49, Jews from villages are forced to a ghetto

RG-45.02.50, Jews in Germany, history

RG-45.02.51, Kaunas, interwar Lithuania, Jewish soccer team

RG-45.02.52, Killing by a German Labor Serviceman, USHMM, 64407

RG-45.02.53, Kristallnacht, a synagogue in flame

RG-45.02.54, Kristallnacht, nighttime, a synagogue in flame

RG-45.02.55, Kristallnacht, a burning synagogue

RG-45.02.56, Lancut, Poland, Wooden Synagogue

RG-45.02.57, Lodz ghetto, a boy feeds the small girl

RG-45.02.58, Lodz ghetto, allegedly a deportation scene

RG-45.02.59, Lodz ghetto, Chaim Mordechaj Rumkowski speaking at the Judenrat meeting

RG-45.02.60, Lodz ghetto, theatrical performance

RG-45.02.61, Lodz ghetto, three women at work

RG-45.02.62, Lodz ghetto, women in a sewing workshop

RG-45.02.63, Lwow ghetto, Search for a Jewish female under false identity

RG-45.02.64, Majdanek after liberation, a pile of corpses

RG-45.02.65, Majdanek after liberation, an emaciated female prisoner

RG-45.02.66, Majdanek after liberation, emaciated male survivors, camera depicts them naked

RG-45.02.67, Majdanek after liberation, Soviet soldiers examine the dead prisoners

RG-45.02.68, Majdanek, a dead prisoner on barbed wire

RG-45.02.69, Mauthausen after liberation, a row of dead bodies

RG-45.02.70, Mauthausen, one of the initial memorial sites

RG-45.02.71, Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda

RG-45.02.72, Nazi gathering

RG-45.02.73, Nazi Germany, a German woman is publicly humiliated for the connection with Jews

RG-45.02.74, Nuremberg, Nazi rally

RG-45.02.75, Operation Beriha, on the way to Palestine

RG-45.02.76, Operation Beriha, Jewish kids on the illegal path to Palestine

RG-45.02.77, Operation Beriha, preparing for Palestine

RG-45.02.78, Piotrkow Trybunalski, a Jewish Quarter, pre-war Poland

RG-45.02.79, Poland, a camp memorial

RG-45.02.80, Poland, at the advertisement board

RG-45.02.81, President Hindenburg congratulates Hitler for being elected Chancellor

RG-45.02.82, Przedborz, Poland, Wooden Synagogue

RG-45.02.83, Registration in the Ghetto

RG-45.02.84, Report Tells of Nazi Annihilation of 2,000,000 Jews in Europe, from Heral Tribune

RG-45.02.85, Romek Kaliski, member of the Jewish order police in the Lodz ghetto

RG-45.02.86, Sachsenhausen, ca. 1936

RG-45.02.87, Saloniki, Jewish leaders with Metropolitan

RG-45.02.88, Slovakian export, MISSING PHOTO

RG-45.02.89, Soviet and Jewish partisans, a group photograph

RG-45.02.90, Soviet and Jewish partisans, Lipiczany Forest, Poland-Western Belarus

RG-45.02.91, Soviet-Jewish partisan, Misha Kacowicz

RG-45.02.92, Soviet-Jewish partisans, former Eastern Poland

RG-45.02.93, Soviet-Jewish partisans, Naliboki Forest, Poland-Western Belarus

RG-45.02.94, Tarnow, a Jewish cultural society

RG-45.02.95, Tarnow, Jewish soccer team

RG-45.02.96, the Netherlands, poison gas chamber with a warning sign, poison gas

RG-45.02.97, Vienna, Jewish veterans of the First World War in Austro-Hungarian uniform

RG-45.02.98, Vienna

RG-45.02.99, View of the abandoned furnishings of Jews deported from the ghetto, USHMM

RG-45.02.100, The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow

RG-45.02.101, Warsaw ghetto negative

RG-45.02.102, Warsaw ghetto wall, Jews climbing over the ghetto wall

RG-45.02.103, Warsaw ghetto, a beggar on the street

RG-45.02.104, Warsaw ghetto, a ghetto checkpoint

RG-45.02.105, Warsaw ghetto, a ghetto entrance

RG-45.02.106, Warsaw ghetto, a Jewish boy, 1943, Yad Vashem Archives

RG-45.02.107, Warsaw ghetto, at the cemetery

RG-45.02.108, Warsaw ghetto, books are being sold and exchanged on the street

RG-45.02.109, Warsaw ghetto, dragging the dead

RG-45.02.110, Warsaw ghetto, hungry and exhausted kids in the yard

RG-45.02.111, Warsaw ghetto, inside a ghetto dwelling

RG-45.02.112, Warsaw ghetto, Jewish kids in the classroom

RG-45.02.113, Warsaw ghetto, Jewish policeman regulates traffic

RG-45.02.114, Warsaw ghetto, man on the street

RG-45.02.115, Warsaw ghetto, medical examining in the ghetto

RG-45.02.116, Warsaw ghetto, pedestrian bridge

RG-45.02.117, Warsaw ghetto, prayer in the ghetto

RG-45.02.118, Warsaw ghetto, ration card

RG-45.02.119, Warsaw ghetto, street sale

RG-45.02.120, Warsaw ghetto, unidentified location, perhaps a transfer

RG-45.02.121, Warsaw ghetto, view of the ghetto wall

RG-45.02.122, Warsaw ghetto, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

RG-45.02.123, Warsaw, at the fur shop, preparing for the German requisitions, MISSING PHOTO

RG-45.02.124, Warsaw, first days of German occupation

RG-45.02.125, Warsaw, interwar time

RG-45.02.126, Warsaw, Jews are not allowed into the park

RG-45.02.127, Zamosc, people on the square observing an unknown scene

RG-45.03, Poland, wartime photodocuments

RG-45.03.01, Poland, newcomers from Polish provinces to Warsaw Ghetto, photo by Joe J. Heydecker, February 1941

RG-45.03.02, Kovno Ghetto, photograph of a young boy standing in front of door of chairman of the Council of Elders

RG-45.03.03, Kovno Ghetto, Jews lining up