Bystanders In the Holocaust

A person who is present at an event without participating in it. Bystander A person who is present at an event without participating in it. Polish peasants jeer as a Jew is forced to cut the beard of a fellow Jew. Date: 1939 - 1940 Locale: Lodz, [Lodz] Poland Credit: USHMM, courtesy of Frank Morgens (Mieczyslaw Morgenstern) Copyright: USHMM

Austrian Nazis and local residents look on as Jews are forced to get on their hands and knees and scrub the pavement. Date: Mar 1938 - Apr 1938 Locale: Vienna, Austria Credit: USHMM, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park Copyright: Public Domain

First They Came for the Jews First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. Pastor Martin Niemöller