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- Collection: Gendered Dimensions of Genocide - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)
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A German woman and a bare-footed young girl from Nammering are forced to walk among the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near the town.
On April 19, 1945, a freight train with nearly 4,500 prisoners from Buchenwald pulled onto the railroad siding at Nammering. The train had been destined for Dachau, but at Plattling it was diverted towards Nammering because of damage to the railroad…
A German police officer shoots Jewish women still alive after a mass execution of Jews from the Mizocz ghetto.
According to the Zentrale Stelle in Germany (Zst. II 204 AR 1218/70), these Jews were collected by the German Gendarmerie and Ukrainian Schutzmannschaft during the liquidation of the Mizocz ghetto, which held roughly 1,700 Jews. On the eve of the…
Haika Grosman
Haika Grosman, one of the organizers of the Bialystok ghetto underground and participant in the Bialystok ghetto revolt. Poland, 1945.
Women in the barracks of the newly liberated Auschwitz concentration camp.
The Soviet film about the liberation of Auschwitz was shot over a period of several months beginning on January 27, 1945, the day of liberation. It consists of both staged and unrehearsed footage of Auschwitz survivors (adults and children) taken in…