The Holocaust
During World War II, approximately six million Jews were rounded up and murdered by Nazi-led Germany and its allies. Additional groups deemed socially undesirable - Roma (gypsies), Slavs, the disabled, and Communists, among others - were also part of this eradication program. The images on this page examine this movement from its early beginnings in the early 1930s to its harrowing conclusion a decade later.
Publication titled "The Persecution of the Jews in Germany." Published
by the Joint Foreign Committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and
the Anglo-Jewish Association, April 1933. This booklet attempts to document
the systematic persecution of the Jews by the Nazi regime in Germany.
[Nahum N. Glatzer Collection]
Program from "A service of Prayer and Intercession on Behalf of our
Brethren in Germany" held at the Royal Albert Hall in London on July
9, 1933. The program is written in both Hebrew and English and is designed
to be read right-to-left.
[Nahum N. Glatzer Collection]
"Hitler and Nazi Germany Uncensored," by Wallace R. Deuel, 1941.
Mr. Deuel headed the Chicago Daily News bureau in Berlin from 1934 to 1941.
This booklet reprints eleven articles he authored on his observations while
stationed in Germany.
[Nahum N. Glatzer Collection]
Barracks in the Plaszow Concentration Camp near Krakow, Poland.
[Delbert Mann Papers]
Aerial view of the Plaszow Concentration Camp near Krakow, Poland.
[Delbert Mann Papers]
Work team in the Plaszow Concentration Camp near Krakow, Poland.
[Delbert Mann Papers]
Art work by György Kádár, a concentration camp survivor.
The title of the work comes from the motto of Auschwitz-Birkenau, "Arbeit
Macht Frei" (Work Makes You Free).
[Exhibition Catalog, Vanderbilt University Archives]