Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust

The crosses found in concentration camp in Buchenwald

Concentration Camp survivor  hitting a skinhead.

A colored triangle worn by concentration camp inmates to indicate the cause of their internment. [Collection of Kenneth W. Rendell/The Museum of World War II]

A dead prison guard at Dachau concentration camp is pulled from a canal that surrounded the camp by members of the 45th Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army with the aid of an inmate. Following the liberation of the camp by American soldiers, many camp guards were wounded and killed by the American soldiers and former inmates in reprisal. Dachau, Bavaria, Germany. 29 April 1945.

A newly freed inmate at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, his face swollen from a severe beating prior to the camp being liberated by the British 11th Armoured Division, drinks water from a rusty tin. Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany. 17 April 1945.

“If one in ten men wear glasses, how many men does this pile represent?”

A Harrowing Photo Of The Buchenwald Concentration Camp Taken in 1945 as a Congressional committee was sent to Germany to investigate Nazi atrocities, this photo shows Kentucky Senator Alben W. Barkley witnessing firsthand the evils of Nazism via Weimar, Germany’s Buchenwald concentration camp.

The man on the left is a Nazi

Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany, 1945.

Newly liberated female inmates at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shower in a Mobile Bath Unit equipped with hot water which was set up by the British after the camp was liberated on 15 April 1945 by the British 11th Armored Division. For many, this was their first hot shower in months or even years. Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany. April 1945. Image taken by British Sgt. H. Oakes.

“Death’s-Head Revisited” by Rod Serling - The Twilight Zone (via woodbetweenworlds)

Jack & Ina Polak sparked a love affair while in the same concentration camp, exchanging love letters over the course of being held captive. They married after being liberated, and have stayed together over 60 years.

A burned corpse still wearing his cross in Leipzig-Thekla, a sub-camp of Buchenwald concentration camp, lies in the open after the camp was liberated by the United States 69th Infantry Division. On 18 April 1945, SS guards set fire to the barracks housing some 300 inmates and shot those who attempted to escape the flames. The sub-camp had been established in September 1943 to supply labor for the German war effort. At its height, Leipzig-Thekla held approximately 1400 prisoners. Ettersberg, Germany. 19 April 1945. 

Jewish refugees, approaching allied soldiers, become aware that they have just been liberated, April, 1945