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

6What goes around comes around

One of the more satisfying pictures taken in June 1945 of the holocaust where a survivor identifies a Nazi camp guard who would beat them ruthlessly.

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7German woman reacting in horror

Don’t be puzzled at the American GI’s in the background who can be made out by the uniform and helmets. This was a scene in Namering Germany where 800 bodies killed by SS were laid out for other town people to see the work of their Nazi rulers. The woman is a German reacting in horror. 

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8Gateway to death

A photograph of Auschwitz concentration camp taken in 1945 

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9A secret photo taken by a Sonderkommando

Sonderkommandos were Jewish men forced to act as secondary camp guards almost like your hallway monitor to keep their fellow Jews in line. This secret photo shows women on the way to the gas chamber.

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10Hungarian Jews

500,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Almost all of them were exterminated in the gas chambers immediately upon arrival. 

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