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View photos connected to the experiences of women during the Holocaust, as well as the important role women played in resistance activities.
26 Ιαν 2015 · Ravensbrück is often overshadowed by stories of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, but the all-female camp saw some of the worst atrocities of WWII. The camp was made to hold "deviant" women: Jews, Roma, spies, resistance fighters, communists, criminals, prostitutes, and lesbians.
Here, some German women form a unit of the civilian Air Defense League. Germany, November 15, 1936. The cover of a Nazi publication on race, Neues Volk (New People), portrays motherhood with this ideal image of an "Aryan" mother and child. Germany, September 1937.
Scene after the liberation of the Auschwitz camp: a warehouse of clothes that belonged to women who were murdered there. Auschwitz, Poland, after January 1945. African American soldiers of the US Army escort German civilians through a site where camp prisoners were massacred during a death march from Buchenwald.
Women driven to gas chambers The picture was taken illegaly by the memebers of the Sonderkommando in 1944. Here we can see women driven by the SS-men to one of the gas chambers.
The Nazi woman was an important part of Adolf Hitler's vision of German society (the Volksgemeinschaft) and should mirror its ideals: racially pure and physically robust.
Almost every day, World War II veterans and their families uncover extremely graphic photographs taken of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. These photographs provide powerful documentation of the crimes of the Nazi era.
