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ARRIVAL
A column of prisoners arrives at the Belzec
A COLUMN OF PRISONERS ARRIVES AT THE BELZEC killing center. Belzec, Poland, ca. 1942. In early 1940 the Germans set up a forced-labor camp for Jewish prisoners in Belzec. The inmates were forced to build fortifications and dig anti-tank ditches along the demarcation line between Germany and Soviet-occupied Poland. The camp was closed down at the end of 1940. The following year, in November 1941, construction began on the Belzec killing center.
A concentration camp scene
A CONCENTRATION CAMP SCENE in the camp yard, surrounded by a barbed wire fence. The prisoners are divided into two groups on either side of the yard with the uniformed guards standing in the center.
A photograph secretly taken by Ravensbrück prisoners
A PHOTOGRAPH SECRETLY TAKEN BY RAVENSBRÜCK PRISONERS, showing a group of Polish civilian women and children arriving at Ravensbrück from Warsaw after the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. c. October 1944. Courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
A sketch made in Theresienstadt
A SKETCH MADE IN THERESIENSTADT by Norbert Troller captioned, “Lines for Lunch”, a reference to widespread hunger and malnutrition. In sketches made secretly in Theresienstadt, the Brno-born architect sometimes added notes to images depicting the dead and dying, labeling them as “last stop” and “before the last stop”, respectively. The Nazis portrayed Theresienstadt to some German Jews as an Altersheim (old-age home) – a last stop for restful twilight years. In reality, for the vast majority of Jews deported to Theresienstadt, it was a way station on the road to Auschwitz.
A WOMAN AND HER TWO CHILDREN
A WOMAN AND HER TWO CHILDREN, during the divorce of a Jewish sleeping area - Shidlovitz, Poland, to the Treblinka camp, August-September 1942 (Courtesy of the photo archives, Yad Vashem) Take a look at the photography. Notice the woman in the center of the picture on her way to the Treblinka death camp, who walks with her two terrified and crying children on their way to death: the little one without shoes she holds in one hand and her face is tight in front of him, and the bigger one she wraps and holds close to her with the other. She doesn't cry, Centra is upright, and she walks forward. See the message she gives to her children, her determination, the uplifting gaze, the hug that there is no warmer than him. This is a human and universal message relevant to each and every one of us, anywhere and every hour. These women become human symbols of coping with suffering. Credit Bezalel - Journal of Visual and Material Culture.
Alfred Kantor’s depiction
A SKETCH MADE IN THERESIENSTADT by Norbert Troller captioned, “Lines for Lunch”, a reference to widespread hunger and malnutrition. In sketches made secretly in Theresienstadt, the Brno-born architect sometimes added notes to images depicting the dead and dying, labeling them as “last stop” and “before the last stop”, respectively. The Nazis portrayed Theresienstadt to some German Jews as an Altersheim (old-age home) – a last stop for restful twilight years. In reality, for the vast majority of Jews deported to Theresienstadt, it was a way station on the road to Auschwitz.
Arrival at Auschwitz
ARRIVAL AT AUSCHWITZ, Jews in Westerbork boarding the deportation train to Auschwitz.
ARRIVAL AT BUCHENWALD
ARRIVAL AT BUCHENWALD, newly arrived prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Buchenwald, Germany, 1938-1940.
ARRIVAL INTO THE AUSCHWITZ CAMP
ARRIVAL AT BUCHENWALD, newly arrived prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Buchenwald, Germany, 1938-1940.
ARRIVAL OF A CONVOY
ARRIVAL OF A CONVOY, David Olère was a Jewish Polish-born French painter and sculptor best known for his explicit drawings and paintings based on his experiences as a Jewish Sonderkommando inmate at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. He began to draw at Auschwitz-Birkenau during the last days of the camp, when the SS became less attentive. His work has an invaluable as evidence documentary: there are no photos of what happened in the gas chambers and crematoria.
Arrival of a transport
ARRIVAL OF A TRANSPORT at the Westerbork camp. Westerbork, the Netherlands, October 1942. US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
ARRIVAL OF HUNGARIAN JEWS AT AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU
ARRIVAL OF HUNGARIAN JEWS, AT AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, May/June 1944, with the gate in the background. “Selection” of HUNGARIAN Jews, chosen either for work or the gas chamber.
ARRIVAL OF HUNGARIAN JEWS IN AUSCHWITZ EXTERMINATION CAMP
ARRIVAL OF HUNGARIAN JEWS IN AUSCHWITZ EXTERMINATION CAMP, May/June 1944, with the gate in the background. "Selection" of Hungarian Jews for work or the gas chamber. From the Auschwitz Album, taken by the camp's Erkennungsdienst.
Arrival of Soviet prisoners
ARRIVAL OF SOVIET PRISONERS of war on the roll call area in Mauthausen, SS photo, October 1941 (photo credits: Mauthausen Memorial / Collections).
Arrival of the Lodz Ghetto
ARRIVAL OF THE LODZ GHETTO, children from the Marysin colony who were rounded-up during the "Gehsperre" action in the Lodz ghetto, march in a long column towards a deportation assembly point.
Arrival to Rab
ARRIVAL TO RAB concentration camp, a concentration camp in Croatia, run by the Italian Government. It is actually a small island.
ARRIVAL
ARRIVAL, Hungarian Jews arriving at Auschwitz.
Artist David Friedmann
ARTIST DAVID FRIEDMANN (1893-1980) Title: Cattle Train to Auschwitz. Im “VIEHWAGEN” nach dem Vernichtunglager “AUSCHWITZ" Charcoal, December 1963 Copyright ©1989 Miriam Friedman Morris. All Rights Reserved
Babo Batren
BABO BATREN, an elderly Jewish woman from Tecso labor camp, leans against the train which brought her to Auschwitz. She is waiting to be taken to the gas chambers.
Belzec, Poland
BELZEC, POLAND, 1942, prisoners entering the extermination camp.
CARPATHIAN RUTHENIA JEWS ARRIVE AT AUSCHWITZ
CARPATHIAN, RUTHENIA JEWS ARRIVE AT AUSCHWITZ, Jews from Carpathian Ruthenia arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944.
CHELMNO VICTIMS ARRIVING
CHELMNO VICTIMS ARRIVING, Jews in the Łódź ghetto rounded up for deportation to Auschwitz during the summer of 1944.
Corpses of Jews
CORPSES OF JEWS UPON arrival at a camp.
Drawing of the arrival
DRAWING OF THE ARRIVAL of children at Drancy
Drawing titled Terezín Arrival
DRAWING TITLED “TEREZÍN ARRIVAL.” Created by a 13-year-old Helga Weissova. Credit: Yad Vashem. Source: “And God Saw that it was Bad” by Helga Weissova.
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