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

26Liberation scenes

This was a scene from Buchenwald concentration camp where Czech doctors are examining a patient dying from starvation. 

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27Liberation but the agony will always be a haunting one

A photo of an inmate sitting on a stool next to a corpse at Thekla concentration camp Leipzig the day it was liberated in April 1945.

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28Personal belongings

This is a photograph of the eyeglasses collected from prisoners send to the death camps for extermination. Even gold teeth weren’t spared from dead bodies as well as every personal belonging that had to be neatly sorted out by Jewish prisons themselves. It was not uncommon for husbands or wives to recognize the personal items of their partners and family members.

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29Loading of bodies onto trains

Dead bodies were too many for even the Nazis to handle so they were loaded onto trains like slaughtered cattle for disposal. Incidentally, this was a black and white image but colorized later. 

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30it’s nice to see them smile

Prisoners liberated at Bergen Belsen collect their rations from British soldiers in April 1945. One must commend such people who in spite of the most horrific ordeal, still were left with hope to smile. 

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