30 Holocaust Photos That Reveal Heartbreaking Tragedy You Don’t See In History Books

By Andrew Alpin, 8 April 2018

11Prisoner Transport

This was the typical was Jews were transported to the concentration camps. This photograph was taken of a train from Poland in 1944. 

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12Hope at last

Malnourished prisoners at the Majdanek concentration camp found by allied forces after occupying Poland. 

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13One of the barbarians

This is a photo f Dr Klein of Bergen Belsen concentration camp pictured standing among his many victims. 

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14Evidence

The Nazis tried very hard to cover up evidence but their own systematic and quantitative extermination went against them. There was no way they could cover up the thousands of mass graves in the vicinity of the camps and surrounding areas. This is a shot of exhumed prisoners in Lublin camp Poland. 

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15Profile photos documented by Nazis at Auschwitz

Wilhelm Brasse was a Polish prisoner, who was also a photographer. He was forcibly made to document thousands of profiles after taking their pictures in Auschwitz. This is one of his pictures. Ironically, they also served as identification photos later of people who had died in the camps.

 

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