Days of Remembrance Photo Slideshow Organized by key themes in the history of the Holocaust
1933-1939
Dictatorship under the Third Reich
Adolf Hitler salutes spectators upon his arrival at the Zeppelinfeld in Nuremberg for the Reichsparteitag (Reich Party Day) ceremonies. —USHMM #08358 [Download Hi-res]
A dog lies on a park bench which is marked “Nur fuer Arier” (Only for Aryans). —USHMM #63705 [Download Hi-res]
Austrian Nazis and local residents look on as Jews are forced to get on their hands and knees and scrub the pavement. —National Archives and Records Administration/USHMM #03741 [Download Hi-res]
Jewish girls sheltered at the Centre de Sainte-Mande, children’s home on rue Granville in Paris. Only a few escaped deportation to Auschwitz. —USHMM #31330 [Download Hi-res]
Local residents view the burning of the ceremonial hall at the Jewish cemetery in Graz. —Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstandes/USHMM #04372 [Download Hi-res]
Germans pass by the broken shop of a Jewish-owned business that was destroyed during Kristallnacht. —National Archives and Records Administration/USHMM #86838 [Download Hi-res]
A view of the SS St. Louis surrounded by smaller vessels in the port of Hamburg. —USHMM #88358 [Download Hi-res]
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. —National Archives and Records Administration/USHMM #11291 [Download Hi-res]
Two children beg for food on the streets of the Warsaw ghetto. —USHMM #32318 [Download Hi-res]
Jews in the Warsaw ghetto awaiting their turn in the soup kitchen. —Archiwum Dokumentacji Mechanicznej/USHMM #07056 [Download Hi-res]
A Jewish policeman and a German soldier direct pedestrian traffic across the main street dividing the two parts of the Lodz ghetto. —Zydowski Instytut Historyczny Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy/USHMM #37316 [Download Hi-res]
Prisoners standing during a roll call. Each wears a striped hat and uniform bearing colored, triangular badges and identification numbers. —USHMM #10105 [Download Hi-res]
A transport of Jews from Subcarpathian Rus is taken off the trains and assembled on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. —Yad Vashem/USHMM #77221 [Download Hi-res]
Danish fishermen (foreground) ferry a boatload of fugitives across a narrow sound to neutral Sweden. Within just a few weeks of the first arrests by the Germans in 1943, some 7,000 Danish Jews managed to make their way to the safety of fishing boats that plied this route. —courtesy of Frihedsmuseet/USHMM #70737 [Download Hi-res]
SS troops guard members of the Jewish resistance captured during the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. —National Archives and Records Administration/USHMM #46193 [Download Hi-res]
A view of concentration camp prisoners marching through a village while on a death march from Dachau to Wolfratshausen. The photo was taken through the upstairs window of a private home along the death march route. —KZ Gedenkstaette Dachau/USHMM #81275 [Download Hi-res]
American soldiers entering Buchenwald upon liberation of the camp. —USHMM #09807 [Download Hi-res]
Mauthausen survivors cheer the soldiers of the Eleventh Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army one day after their actual liberation. —courtesy of NARA/USHMM #68210 [Download Hi-res]
An emaciated survivor drinking from a metal bowl in front of a barracks in Buchenwald. —NARA/USHMM #62135 [Download Hi-res]
The defendants in the dock listen to proceedings at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. —USHMM #16777 [Download Hi-res]
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