Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust Photographs

218 items in this album on 11 pages.


The remarkably cruel SS Hauptsturmführer Amon Göth, Kommandant at the Płaszów labor camp near Kraków, Poland, mid-1944. Płaszów is where Oskar Schindler drew many of his laborers for his enamel works.	Soviet soldiers inspecting the ovens at Majdanek Concentration Camp, Lublin, Poland, Jul-Aug 1944

USAAF intelligence aerial photograph of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp at Oświęcim, Poland taken 25 Aug 1944. This is a scan of an enlarged print taken from the original negative and captioned by the CIA in 1978.	Hungarian and German soldiers rounding up Jews in Budapest, Hungary, Oct 1944

Jewish women being rounded up on Wesselényi Street, Budapest, Hungary, 22 Oct 1944	Prisoners of Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria being gathered for mass disinfection, date unknown

Soviet prisoners of war during roll call, Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria, date unknown	Recently liberated Jewish civilians, Budapest, Hungary, Feb-Mar 1945

A French Jew at a subcamp of the Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp, Nordhausen, Germany, Apr 1945	A pile of human remains at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, near Weimar, Germany, Apr 1945

American soldiers inspecting a crematorium stuffed with several bodies, location unknown, Apr 1945	Crematorium at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp, Germany, Apr 1945

British officers leading two blindfolded German officers through the British lines at Winsen, Germany for a truce negotiation in connection with the typhus-infected camp at Bergen-Belsen, Apr 1945.	Dead prisoners of Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp on barracks floors as discovered by members of US 1st Army, Nordhausen, Germany, 11 Apr 1945

Life magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White taking a photograph at Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, 1945	Medics of US 3rd Army conferring at Buchenwald Concentration Camp near Weimar, Germany, 11 Apr 1945

American generals touring Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, Gotha, Germany, 12 Apr 1945, photo 1 of 3	American generals touring Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, Gotha, Germany, 12 Apr 1945, photo 2 of 3

Dwight Eisenhower and other officers inspecting the remains of a German attempt to destroy the remains of dead Jewish prisoners at Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, Gotha, Germany, 12 Apr 1945	Dwight Eisenhower inspecting Ohrdruf Concentration Camp, Thuringia, Germany, 12 Apr 1945; note George Patton in crowd about a quarter of the way from the left of the photograph