barbed veteran in stalingrad
These are rarely seen color pictures from the Second World War featured in the book “The Second World War in Colour” by the Imperial War Museum. Many are being published…
A look at the only all-female SS concentration camp, Ravensbrück.
Since 1596 Warsaw has been the capital of Poland. In Polish Warsaw (“Warszawa”) literally means “belonging to Warsz”—a 12th-13th-century nobleman who owned land in the Mariensztat district. Warsaw was home to Europe’s largest Jewish population—around 337,000 in 1939, and 445,000 by 1941. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1st 1939, the Nazis quickly surrounded the capital city and launched a deadly blitzkreig that claimed many lives and destroyed buildings. The Germans were now in control of the country and in November 1939, an edict issued by Hans Frank, the Governor General, decreed all Jewish men, women and children over the age of ten had to wear a Star of David armband to identify themselves. All Jewish shops had to be similarly marked with a Star of David, and severe restrictions were placed on the Jewish population. Further laws limited the amount of money Jews were able to withdraw, with strict rules on buying produce, letting and owning property and travel. In March 1940, groups of Polish gangs launched a series of violent attacks on the Jewish population—stealing money, gold, food, clothes and anything they could find of any value. These attacks lasted for eight days until the Germans intervened. In February 1940, the...
Poland under German occupation. Warsaw Ghetto. WW2. In pictures.
A look back at the Greatest Generation, presented by Getty Images.
A new publication by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland combines photographs taken in the death camp during World War II alongside pictures of the same location today.
Imágenes de la Shoá
Dachau was the first and longest operating Nazi concentration camp. Learn about the camp's early years, prisoners, medical experiments, and liberation.
A devastating doc drawn from a trove of private papers reveals the Nazi war criminal as husband and dad
Once they were free of the camp, their greatest threats were hunger and men. But they held fast to the belief that goodness had not disappeared.
While visiting the POLIN museum in 2016, Daniel Patt realized he could be walking by his own relatives without knowing it, so he designed a platform 'From Numbers to Names'
More than 875,000 people, almost all Jews, were murdered at Treblinka in the space of one year
Magda Hellinger survived three years in the Auschwitz-Birkeau concentration camps where she was forced to work with her barbaric SS captors in roles as a 'prisoner functionary'.
Ein Fotoalbum, angelegt von SS-Mördern, wird zur ZDF-Dokumentation der grausamen Routine im Vernichtungslager Auschwitz.
Of all the concentration camps in history, Auschwitz was the deadliest. Here are 29 photos that show what it's really like to visit the Auschwitz memorial.
