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Photographing the Holocaust – Albums from the Yad Vashem Photo Collection

The Yad Vashem Photo Archive currently holds nearly half a million photographs. When Yad Vashem began its activities, and especially after its official establishment in 1953, many photographs were transferred to its care. Many of these arrived as individual images or as small collections preserved by families. A smaller portion arrived in the form of photo albums. Yad Vashem now houses approximately five hundred such albums.

The photographs, originating from both public archives and private collections, document Jewish life before and during the Holocaust, the lives of Holocaust survivors in its aftermath, and the efforts to commemorate the Holocaust.

The series of articles presented here surveys four types of photo albums from the archive: Nazi propaganda albums, an album documenting deportation to extermination, an album depicting the construction of a death camp, and an album reflecting the rehabilitation of life after the Holocaust.

A portrait of the 26 year old Otto Feuchtwanger.

A Deadly Lie: Streicher's Campaign to Criminalize the Jewish People

On October 16th, 1946, Julius Streicher was executed in Nuremberg. Ever so loyal to the Nazi cause, as he approached the gallows, he yelled out “Heil Hitler!”and once he was at the gallows, he screamed “Purim festival...
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From Home to an Unknown Fate: The Deportation of the Jews of Wurzburg

From Home to an Unknown Fate: The Deportation of the Jews of Wurzburg

By the end of 1941, World War II had entered its third year. Germany advanced from one conquest to the next; they controlled almost all of Europe, from the outskirts of Moscow to the Pyrenees Mountains on the Spanish border. For...
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Manufacturing Hate: Nazi Photography and the "Parasite" Image in the Warsaw Ghetto

Manufacturing Hate: Nazi Photography and the "Parasite" Image in the Warsaw Ghetto

1939 in the Warsaw Ghetto. Emanuel Ringelblum decided to refute the Nazi narrative of Polish Jewry. Ringelblum, forty years old at the time, was the perfect man for the job: he was an eminent historian whose doctorate focused on the...
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The Katzet Theater:  Tears and Death; Hopes and Dreams in a DP camp

The Katzet Theater:  Tears and Death; Hopes and Dreams in a DP camp

In the first few months after the liberation, Holocaust survivors tried to process their new reality. For years they witnessed death almost daily. For years they could only focus on their immediate physical survival. They never had...
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