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

By Andrew Alpin, 8 April 2018

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21Gas Chamber at Majdanek

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If you noticed, the walls on the opposite end have been stained blue by the gas Zyklon B used to kill Jews. 

Gas Chamber at Majdanek

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22The cues of Babi Yar

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This is a scene from the Babi Yar ravines in Kiev where almost 30,000 Jews were ordered to strip naked and then walk in line to be machined gunned by Nazis and Ukrainian collaborators. 

The cues of Babi Yar

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23Artwork by a Sonderkommando

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David Olere was a Jew living in France and arrested in 1943. He was sent to Auschwitz and made a Sonderkommando. He drew scenes of everyday life of his work at the camp. These are one of his artworks which serve as powerful evidence of life in Nazi concentration camps.

Artwork by a Sonderkommando

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24The shame of Lviv

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An equally shameful moment of the Holocaust was the Lviv pogroms of 1941where Ukrainians indulged in rampant rapes and murders of Jews on the streets of Lwow now Lviv by Nazis and Ukrainian collaborators.

The shame of Lviv

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25Starving child

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Although one does not undermine the significance of the photo of little immigration child lying dead on the beach, In Nazi Germany, such scenes were commonplace and this is one reminder lest we forget that it is always humanity that is the biggest culprit of inhumanity. 

Starving child

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