Photographs of the Holocaust

Registration

• Washing and shaving newly arrived prisoners
  
• Registration of prisoners upon arrival
  
• Newly arrived prisoners lined up for registration
  
• Newly arrived prisoners undressing before they are washed and shaved
  

Roll Call

• SS and police officials speaking among themselves during a roll call
  
• Prisoners standing during a roll call
  
• Newly arrived prisoners at roll call (seen through barbed wire)
  
• Still in their civilian clothes, newly arrived prisoners, among whom is a clergyman, stand at roll call
  
• Dutch Jews wearing prison uniforms stand at attention during a roll call
  

Forced Labor

• Prisoners building the Weimar-Buchenwald railroad line
  
• Prisoners building the Weimar-Buchenwald railroad line (2)
  
• Prisoners at forced labor
  
• Prisoners at forced labor (seen from a distance)
  
• The prisoners' orchestra
  

Experiments

• A guide shows jars containing human organs removed from prisoners to an American soldier
  
• An exhibit of human remains and artifacts retrieved from a pathology laboratory
  

In the Forests

• Prisoners awaiting execution in the forest near the camp
  
• A prisoner in civilian clothes awaiting execution in the forest
  
• SS officers supervising the erection of a gallows in the forest
  

Remnants

• Crematoria ovens
  
• A crate full of rings
  
• An American soldier sorts through crates of silverware taken from prisoners
  
• American soldiers with a stockpile of German arms and ammunition at the gate
  

The Dead

• American soldiers view a pile of human remains outside the crematorium
  
• A wagon loaded with corpses intended for burial
  
• American troops are shown a stack of corpses lying outside of the cremetorium
  

Survivors

• An emaciated survivor drinking from a metal bowl in front of a barracks
  
• A 5 year old survivor
  
• Three survivors lying in beds in the infirmary
  
• Escorted by American soldiers, a large transport of children survivors file out of the main gate of the camp
  
• Survivors suffering from malnutrition and a variety of other diseases in a section of the hospital barracks
  
• American chaplain conducts Shavuot services for survivors
  
• Former prisoners in wooden bunks
  
• Four young survivors
  
• An American captain with survivors
  
• Young survivors behind a barbed wire fence
  

Outsiders Witness

• German civilians forced to see the results of the crimes
  
• A group of American troops moving among the barracks after liberation.
  

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