A collection of photographs taken by an SS officer, Karl Hocker, who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. Use the links on the page to go to related articles and the photographs
A description of the Belzec concentration camp in Poland, run by the Nazis between 1941 and 1943.
An article about the first boycott of Jewish businesses carried out by the Nazis in 1933. No one expected that this was the beginning of what would become the Holocaust.
Article about the Dachau concentration camp which housed almost 200,000 prisoners, both political and ethnic, in the period between 1933, when the Nazis took power in Germany, and mid-1945 when the Allies liberated the camps.
A description of the Nazi development and use of Drancy, a former police barracks in Paris, as a transportation camp for deporting Jews to extermination camps.
A description of the role of the euphemistically-titled Einsatzgruppen as mobile killing units by the Nazis, including both where and how they were employed.
Article about the weak response that countries made to the need to open up immigration to more Jewish refugees prior to World War II. The arguments sound very familiar today.
A detailed article covering the establishment of the euthanasia program initiated by Adolf Hitler's regime.
Article detailing the persecution and annihilation of much of the European Roma population under Nazi orders during World War II, and the continued persecutionof the remaining Roma population in many countries after the war.
A description of life in the Jewish ghettos of Eastern Europe during World War II.
Browsable directory of encyclopedia articles on topics related to the Holocaust, with accompanying rich-media material (photos, maps, historical films, audio clips, etc.) available for particular topics. A full complement of articles is available in English; translations in other languages are available for select entries.
Article about the concentration camps established by the Nazis in the area around Jasenovac in Croatia, and their use in eliminating political and religious opponents, as well as Jews shipped in from other places in Eastern Europe.
Data by country of the Jewish population in Europe prior to World War II.
Article describes the various organized and individual resistance movements and actions taken by Jews in Germany and throughout Europe during World War II.
Article about the German takeover of the Polish city of Lodz early in World War II.
An account of the role the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland played both in providing labor for the Nazi war effort and in the "final solution" the Nazis planned.
An analysis of the scope of Nazi persecution during World War II, including the Jews, Poles, Roma, and any groups people who did not support the Nazi cause.
An explanation of the term "pogrom" and examples of pogroms in both 19th and early 20th century Russia, and in Germany and Eastern Europe during World War II.
Article about the Nazi movement to annihilate as much of the Polish population as possible during World War II. This article focuses particularly on the non-Jewish portion of the Polish populaton.
Article about the genocide of the Tutsi population in Rwanda and the prosecution of Jean-Paul Akayesu for genocide.