Pictures of the Holocaust
Auschwitz
Camp Views
- "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate
- Entrance to gas chamber in Auschwitz I
- Door of gas chamber
- Execution wall
- Electrified, barbed wire fence and barracks
- Sign on fence that reads "danger"
- A fence around the barracks
- Lane separating the first and the second row of barracks
- Interior of a barrack
- Men's Camp in Birkenau
- Kitchen barracks
- Aerial reconnaissance showing Auschwitz I
- Aerial reconnaissance showing Auschwitz II
Forced Labor
At Liberation
- Corpses of women on the floor of Block 11
- Corpses in Block 11
- Funeral after liberation
- Prisoners greeting liberators
- Jewish children behind barbed wire
- Inmates at the gate
- Liberated inmates behind the barbed wire fence
- Ruins of crematorium #2
Hair, Shoes, Clothes
- Pile of prayer shawls
- Warehouse full of shoes and clothing
- Overflowing warehouse
- Heap of children's clothing
- Large pile of brushes
- Sacks of human hair
- Bales of hair
- Bales of human hair numbered for shipment
- Warehouse in which hair was kept
Photograph courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
