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Much of the photography of the Holocaust is the work of Nazi German photographers. [7] Some originated as routine administrative procedure, such as identification photographs (); others were intended to illustrate the construction and functioning of the camps or prisoner transport. [5]
The images were taken within 15–30 minutes of each other by an inmate inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex. Usually named only as Alex, a Jewish prisoner from Greece, the photographer was a member of the Sonderkommando , inmates forced to work in and around the gas chambers.
It contains over one hundred images of the lives and living conditions of the officers and administrators who ran the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex. The album is unique and an indispensable document of the Holocaust; it is now in the archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C.
A 2015 study by Dr. Rachel Yehuda at Mount Sinai Hospital found genetic changes to Holocaust survivors' descendants, specifically focused around the gene associated with stress hormones.
Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author who served as a "haftling" doctor in the Auschwitz main camp. He coined the phrase 'concentration camp syndrome', now more generally referred to as 'survivor's guilt' and 'post-traumatic stress disorder'. [58] His memoir, ‘Last Stop Auschwitz’ is the only survivor testimony written in Auschwitz.
There are about 245,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors still living, according to a study by the Claims Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Most, 49%, live in Israel, while about 18% ...
A World War II veteran reunited with a Holocaust survivor whom he freed from a Nazi death camp 71 years ago, and the incredible moment was captured on camera.
A Holocaust survivor displaying his arm tattoo. Identification of inmates in Nazi concentration camps was performed mostly with identification numbers marked on clothing, or later, tattooed on the skin. More specialized identification in Nazi concentration camps was done with badges on clothing and armbands.