Shock Report: The Life of European Jews in Hitler's Time *

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Interned women lying on thin mattresses on the barracks floor...

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Theresienstadt ghetto, Czechoslovakia, between 1941 and 1945...

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Photograph taken after liberation.
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Prisoners queuing for their daily soup ration.
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Gas chamber of the Auschwitz main camp, immediatly after liberation.
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Creamatorium I at Auschwitz I.
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Dr. Josef Mengele, SS Officer
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum...

German officer in the SS-Unterkunftsgebäude (SS accommodation building)
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In the summer of 1944, the SS consisted of 4,500 soldiers. In the photograph you can see a column of SS soldiers...

Illustration from an anti-Semitic book for elementary school children. The sign says "The Jews are not welcome...

Illustration from a children's book. The newspaper titles say "The Jews are our misfortune" and "How the Jew...

Nazi storm troopers standing guard outside a shop run by a Jew, shortly after the annexation of Austria by Germany...

John Freund at the age of 10
 
Freund, John, 1930 -...

From left to right: John Freund (11 years), Erna and Gustav (his parents), Karel (his brother).
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