1. The Genocide of six million Jewish, and many others.
Holocaust
The Genocide of six million Jewish, and many others.

2. Animated Maps of the Holocaust
How did this all begin?
Animated Maps of the Holocaust
View the animated map titled “World War II and the Holocaust.”
View the animated map titled “Holocaust”.

3. Holocaust concentration Camps
Entrance to Auschwitz: Entrance to the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp which operated 4 gas chambers where 6,000 people were put to death each day by the Nazi regime. 

4. Holocaust concentration Camps
Gate at Auschwitz: The phrase on the main entrance gateway to the Auschwitz camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau translates to "Work will make you free." Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp.

5. Holocaust concentration Camps
Arriving at Auschwitz: Prisoners from Hungary arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland, spring 1945. 

6. Holocaust concentration Camps
Buildings and Chimneys at Auschwitz-Birkenau : A view of barbed wire fences, buildings and chimneys at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp in operation during World War II.

7. Holocaust concentration Camps
Bunks in Auschwitz Dormitory: This photo from 1981 shows the interior of one of the dormitory houses at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

8. Holocaust concentration Camps
Survivors of Buchenwald Concentration Camp:Survivors at Buchenwald Concentration Camp remain in their barracks after liberation by Allies on April 16, Elie Wiesel, is on the second bunk from the bottom, seventh from the left. 

9. Holocaust concentration Camps
Auschwitz Fences and Crematorium: Fences surround the concentration camp at Auschwitz. An estimated 1,000,000 to 2,500,000 people were exterminated at the camp. A row of chimneys tops the crematorium, were bodies were burned.

10. Holocaust concentration Camps
Gas Chamber at Auschwitz : This gas chamber was the largest room in Crematorium I at Auschwitz. The room was originally used as a mortuary but was converted in 1941 into a gas chamber where Soviet POWs and Jews were killed.

11. Holocaust concentration Camps
Cremation Oven Room at Auschwitz: The ovens at Auschwitz cremated the bodies of those who died in the camp. 

12. Holocaust concentration Camps
Gas Chamber at Majdanek: The gas chamber at Majdanek, a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, the walls were stained blue by Zyklon B. 

13. Holocaust concentration Camps
Survivors of Ebensee Concentration Camp: Emaciated survivors of one of the largest Nazi concentration camps, Austria, entered by the 80th division, U.S. Third army on May 7, 1945.

14. Shoes that once belonged to the victims of the Holocaust.
Belongings
Shoes that once belonged to the victims of the Holocaust.

15. belongings
Wedding Rings Taken From Concentration Camp Inmates : A few of the thousands of wedding rings the Nazis removed from their victims to salvage the gold. U.S. troops found rings, watches, precious stones, eyeglasses, and gold fillings, near the Buchenwald concentration camp. Germany, May 5, 1945. 

16. liberation
May of Allied troops began to liberate the concentration camps…

17. Liberation