Pictures

This is a photograph of the Belsen concentration camp.

All Jews were forced to wear Stars of David when going out in public. Gays had to wear pink triangles.

Jews were machine gunned and buried in graves they were forced to dig themselves.

Men with pliers would yank out teeth that had gold fillings, their hair was cut and skin that had beautiful tattoos were cut off to make lampshades. 

This photograph of a dead body was taken on the grounds of the Belsen concentration camp.

Sometimes photographs like these were put into Nazi family albums. They thought photographs like these were funny.

Jews could not go out in public without wearing a yellow star of David sewn on their clothes.

This picture was taken of an elderly Jewish lady who just arrived at the concentration camp called Auschwitz. 

She was killed minutes after this photograph was taken.

In the above photograph, a brother and sister were found side-by-side and dead at the Belsen concentration camp in April of 1945.

"The stink, thirst and hunger made sleep impossible." This photograph was taken at the Mauthasen concentration camp.

This must be the saddest photograph I've ever seen. I, too, am the father of a son. I can imagine what it felt like to give my son one last hug before we both died. And the reason? So that the shooter and the photographer could get a picture to put in their family albums. I find this photograph very sad. It's the same photo that would make a Nazi laugh.

The starving prisoners were 50 to 70 percent below normal body weight. Those who weren't sent to the gas chamber usually died between 3 to 6 months of starvation, overwork or disease. "Their bones were barely covered with skin, their eyes were glazed and vacant."

These aren't ovens made to bake bread. These are furnaces in the Maidaneck concentration camp that were made for the purpose of burning up the dead bodies from the gas chambers.

A German girl expresses horror at the sight of the decomposing bodies of murdered slave laborers.

Jews from Eastern Europe were transported to death camps in sealed box cars. Deprived of food and water, many died on their way to the camps which sometimes took up to 15 days.

"Jude" means Jew in German. Stores and businesses were marked in this way to drive them out of business. 

A section of the city of Warsaw, known as the Warsaw Ghetoo, was closed off with a 10 foot high brick walls. It was populated with 360,000 Jews. No contact with the outside world was permitted. Overcrowdng, starvation and disease killed almost 100,000 people. 6,000 Jews were taken from the ghetto every day and sent to the gas chambers at Treblinka.