Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Women political prisoners, freed by advancing allied armies at their German prison camp at Belsen, Germany, wash their teeth with utensils supplied by their liberators. One woman at left is chopping up a door for fire wood. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Liberated prisoners in Wobbelin, Germany. This is one of a series of pictures taken at a German concentration camp in Wobbelin, Germany after its capture by troops of the 82nd Airborne Division, 9th US Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Liberated Russian prisoner showing where S. S. troops beat him about the legs with lead filled leather whip. This is one of a series of pictures taken at a German concentration camp in Wobbelin, Germany, after its capture by troops of the 82nd Airborne Division, 9th US Army. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities.

Rows of bodies of dead inmates fill yard of Lager Nordhausen, a Gestapo Concentration Camp near Nordhausen, Germany. The photograph, according to the cameraman, shows less than half of the bodies of the several hundred inmates who died of starvation or were shot by Gestapo men at the camp. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Bodies awaiting burial at the "Lager-Nordhausen" concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany. German civilians were drafted to help in burying the dead. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Truck loaded with dead bodies; most cases were caused from starvation and typhus. This photo is one of a group of photographs taken in German prison camps at Belsen, Germany where the German Gestapo and S. S. Troops tortured and starved many thousands of political prisoners. From album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Barracks in which prisoners were housed in the Nazi concentration camp at Ohrdurf, Germany. From album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

German civilians of Weimar witness a truckload of prisoners dead at Buchenwald concentration camp. The civilians were forced by the U.S. Third Army Military Police to witness evidence of atrocities at the camp. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."

Body of dead prisoner in the Nazi camp at Ludwigslust lies on the floor amidst other prisoners. 150 were reported to have died daily. From: album entitled "Nazi Atrocities."

These Russian, Polish and Dutch slave laborers interned at the Buchenwald concentration camp averaged 160 pounds each prior to entering the camp. Their average weight after 11 months of imprisonment was 70 pounds. U.S. troops of the 80th Division liberated the camp. From: album entitled "Nazi War Atrocities."