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A picture is worth a thousand words - or so the saying goes. Visit these online collections of Holocaust photographs to learn more about life during the Holocaust.

About.com: Photographs of the Holocaust
From your About.com Guide, a large collection of historic photographs separated into categories such as prisoners, camps, Einsatzgruppen, children, and Nazi officials.

Auschwitz - Photos
173 historical photographs of Auschwitz, Birkenau, and people related to these camps.

Auschwitz Photos Taken in 1979-1981
Seventeen thumbnail images lead to the full-size photographs taken by Alan Jacobs on his trips to Auschwitz and Birkenau.

Auschwitz Photos Taken in 1993
A listing of the photographs taken by Stuart Nichols at Auschwitz and Birkenau.

Auschwitz Slide Show
Richard Hitchens has created a slide show of pictures he took while visiting Auschwitz. Along with the pictures are short historical descriptions of what life was like in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Just as a warning, there are no "forward" buttons to get to the next picture, the pages are set to move to the next page/picture every 30 seconds.

Babi Yar - Photos
Five photographs of this ravine.

Photographs of Belzec - Then
7 historical photographs of the Belzec death camp, including deportation of Jews to Belzec, a sign at the camp, Roma (Gypsies) in the camp, and a Jew being tortured.

Photographs of Belzec - Today
What is left at Belzec? Here are 21 photographs of what remains, including the railway, memorial monument, and urns of ashes.

Bergen-Belsen - Photos
57 historic photographs relating to Bergen-Belsen, including Josef Kramer (the commandant), mass graves, and a view of the camp after liberation.

Birkenau Photographs
A list of photographs taken within Birkenau of the ramp, the crematoria, and much more.

Buchenwald - Photos
100 historic photographs of the Buchenwald camp, including the entrance to the camp, Jewish orphans, and a pile of human bones.

Buchenwald at Liberation - Photographs
These pictures were taken by Major Orval C. Clark in May of 1945. These sixteen photographs include survivors, piles of bodies, as well as a stomach turning picture of the ovens.

Collection of Photos From the Warsaw Ghetto
Eight historic photographs of the Warsaw Ghetto, including children crying for food and Jews being forced to the Umschlagplatz.

Dachau - Photos
136 historic photographs of the Dachau concentration camp.

DP Camps - Photos
171 photographs of DP camps, including pictures of religious and cultural life inside the camps, vocational training, and demonstrations.

Adolf Eichmann - Photos
Five photographs of Adolf Eichmann (three are not specifically about him), including three close-ups.

Exodus - Photos
25 historic photographs of the Exodus, including passengers creating mattresses, refugees being removed from the ship, and protests in support of the refugees.

Gallery of Holocaust Images
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust offers pictures of the Holocaust organized into 27 different categories including Nazi Party, Warsaw Ghetto, and the Nuremberg Trials.

Heinrich Himmler - Photos
22 pictures of the leader of the SS.

Adolf Hitler - Photos
85 photographs of the Führer.

Holocaust Photos from Shamash
Intensely graphic pictures including medical experiments, the shrunken head found at the Buchenwald camp, and many other photographs of persecution.

Holocaust Pictures Exhibition
Here are 37 rarely seen photographs of the Holocaust.

Images for Reflection
A wonderfully designed site with groups of pictures for 18 locations - most are camps but also of museums and ghettos.

Images: Other Ghettos
Through nine thumbnail images, you can see within these ghettos. There is a scene of the marketplace in Lodz as well as an execution.

Images: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Twelve thumbnail images of the uprising including a photo of Mordechai Anielewicz and Nazis with machine guns and gas trying to get the Jews to come out of hiding.

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