Primary Sources from the Holocaust
Documents
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A personal account and legal document of the medical experiments performed on prisoners during the height of the holocaust. Source citation: Blaha, Franz. "Dachau: The Medical Experiments, 1941–5." Gale World History in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2014. Student Resources in Context. Web. 7 Jan. 2016. |
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Hermann Graebe's personal account of the Nazi Extermination of Jews during the Holocaust. Source Citation: Graebe, Hermann. "Nazi Extermination of the Jews in the Ukraine, October 1942." Gale World History in Context. Detroit: Gale, 2014. Student Resources in Context. Web. 7 Jan. 2016. 
Abstract: An interview with Jan Burke, who explains the cultural life in the Ghetto
Source Citation: Burke, Jan. Personal interview. N.d. |
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A personal account from Mr. Brukarz regarding his arrest during the Holocaust. Source Citation: "From the Testimony of Mr. Brukarz on His Arrest in Vienna, May 1938." N.d. MS. The Holocaust. Yad Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority. O.2/438. |
Images
Abstract: A prisoner in Belsen Concentration Camp is too weak to walk any further, Germany, April, 1945.
Source Citation: Keystone. Too Weak To Walk. 1 Apr. 1941. Hulton Archive. Getty. 60. Google Cultural Institute. Web. 7 Jan. 2016 
Abstract: Part of the Jewish ghetto wall in Warsaw, Nazi-occupied Poland, March 1941. The ghetto encloses a population of about 400,000.
Source Citation: Warsaw Ghetto Wall. N.d. Hulton Archive. Google Cultural Inst. 60. Google Cultural Institute. Web. 7 Jan. 2016 |
Abstract: High-angle view of Polish prisoners in striped uniforms standing in rows before Nazi officers at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimar, Germany, World War II, circa 1943. (Photo by Frederic Lewis/Getty Images)
Source Citation: Lewis, Frederic. Prisoners At Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany. 1 Jan. 1943. Archive Photos. Getty Photos. 526. Google Cultural Institute. Web. 7 Jan. 2016. 
Abstract: The suitcases that belonged to people deported to Auschwitz.
Source Citation: Suitcases. N.d. Google Cultural Institute. Web. 7 Jan. 2016. 
Abstract: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, a Woman and Children Deemed Unfit for Work on Their Way to Gas Chamber 4
Source Citation: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, a Woman and Children Deemed Unfit for Work on Their Way to Gas Chamber 4. N.d. Yad Vashem. Web. 7 Jan. 2016. |
Abstract: Survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp display the camp markings still on their arms. Dr Brenda (left) gave evidence against former Auschwitz camp doctor Wladyslaw Dering in London's High Court during a libel action against author Leon Uris and the publishers of the book 'Exodus'.
Source Citation: Keystone. Auschwitz Survivors. 7 May 1964. Hulton Archive. Google Cultural Inst. 60. Google Cultural Institute. Web. 7 Jan. 2016. 
Abstract: September 1945: The ruins of the Tielshafer Synagogue in Berlin, burnt by the Nazis on 'Kristallnacht' in November 1938. Property confiscated from Jews was stored here, but all was destroyed when it bombed by the Allies in 1944. Services are now held in a newly reconstructed synagogue.
Source Citation: Ramage, Fred. Synagogue Ruins. 1 Sept. 1945. Google Cultural Institute. Web. 7 Jan. 2016. |