Jews in The Holocaust
This map shows the distribution of Jews in Europe in The total Jewish population of Europe at the time was about 9.5 million. This number represented more than 60% of the world's Jewish population. Jews represented 4% of Germany’s population before WWII USHMM: HOLOCAUST ENCYCLOPEDIA. (Dec, )
Burning synagogue of Siegen during Kristallnacht of the 9 th November, 1938 The Holocaust: Lest we forget: Online Database. (Dec )
Jews arrested during Kristallnacht line up for roll call at the Buchenwald concentration camp. November Lorenz C. Schmuhl Papers, USHMM Archives. (Dec )
Jewish emigration from Nazi-Germany prior to WWII The Holocaust: Lest we forget: Online Database. (Dec )
Social Darwinism
Nazi propaganda photo depicts friendship between an "Aryan" and a black woman. The caption states: "The result! A loss of racial pride." USHMM. (Dec 07,2010)
Eugenics
A Nazi chart incorporating Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity, part of efforts to show how "racially mixed" parents produced "inferior" offspring. Pittsburg Post- Courtesy of USHMM, (Dec, )
Legislation based on Eugenics As a part of the Nuremberg Race Laws Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor (September 15, 1935) The Reich Citizenship Law (October 20, 1935)
A German farmer has his nose measured to check his Aryan “credentials” USHMM: The Biological State: Nazi Racial Hygiene, (Dec 07,2010)
Concentration Camps In Europe Map of the Holocaust in Europe during World War II, This map shows all extermination camps (or death camps), most major concentration camps, labor camps, prison camps, ghettos, major deportation routes and major massacre sites. Self-made by User:Dna-Dennis, using information from USHMM & Wikipedia. (Dec )User:Dna-DennisUSHMM
Jewish mother executed while trying to save her baby from German army mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen)near Kiev, Ukraine Główny Zarząd Polityczny WP (1960). Z Dziejów Wojny Wyzwoleńczej Narodu Polskiego , 255, Warszawa:Wydawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej.
Nazi gas van used to murder Jews at Chelmno extermination camp, Poland. Archives of the Polish Ministry of Justice; (Dec )
Entrance into Auschwitz concentration camp. Sign reads: Work will set you free. USHMM: Expansion of the Concentration Camps, (Dec 07,2010)