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The bodies in the foreground are waiting to be thrown into the fire. Another picture shows one of the places in the forest where people undress before 'showering'—as they were told—and then go to the gas-chambers. Send film roll as fast as you can. Send the enclosed photos to Tell—we think enlargements of the photos can be sent further. [26]
Death penalty for the rescue of Jews in occupied Poland Public announcement NOTICE Concerning: the Sheltering of Escaping Jews. There is a need for a reminder, that in accordance with Paragraph 3 of the decree of 15 October 1941, on the Limitation of Residence in General Government (page 595 of the GG Register) Jews leaving the Jewish Quarter without permission will incur the death penalty ...
The Ulma family (Polish: Rodzina Ulmów) or Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with Seven Children (Polish: Józef i Wiktoria Ulmowie z siedmiorgiem Dzieci) were a Polish Catholic family in Markowa, Poland, during the Nazi German occupation in World War II who attempted to rescue Polish Jewish families by hiding them in their own home during the Holocaust.
The Polish resistance infiltrated the postal office in Warsaw in order to intercept sensitive correspondence, which they sent to the Polish government-in-exile in London. [5] Poles and Jews were forbidden to own cameras, but the Polish resistance established underground workshops for developing clandestine photographs of Nazi atrocities.
The most dramatic was the rescue of people suffering in the ghetto from the typhoid fever. Borysowicz treated Mordechai Anielewicz, leader of the Jewish Combat Organization instrumental in engineering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Most of his patients however, did not survive the Holocaust. [10] Anielewicz died in the Uprising. [11]
Leopold Socha was a Polish sewage inspector in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine). During the Holocaust, Socha used his knowledge of the city's sewage system to shelter a group of Jews from Nazi Germans and their supporters of different nationalities. In 1978, he was recognized by the State of Israel as Righteous Among the Nations.
Irene Gut Opdyke, who saved 12 Jews during the Holocaust, is among the subjects of a new campaign commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day. A Nazi officer's housekeeper hid 12 Jews in ...
A small number of pictures appeared in later years, vetted by propaganda and censorship officials before publication. [5] Official visit of Himmler to Mauthausen in June 1941. Bodies waiting to be burned outdoors in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Taken in secret by a team of Sonderkommando workers in August 1944 and later smuggled out to the Polish ...