The estimated 10,000 Holocaust-related photographs

in the YIVO Archives are frequently consulted by publishers, filmmakers, exhibition curators, and other researchers. Many images seen in documentaries, books, and exhibitions about the Holocaust have been drawn from YIVO's photographic collections.

Click any of the thumbnail images at right to view in a larger format with full caption.

 
                       
  Ruins of Berlin's Oranienburgerstrasse Synagogue, damaged by bombing during World War II   Jews being persecuted by having their beards forcibly shaved, Zawiercie, Poland, ca. 1940   A scene on Nalewki Street in the Warsaw ghetto, Poland, ca. 1941  

Jews waiting for the daily lunch ration at a soup kitchen in the Przemysl ghetto, Poland, 1942

 

Outside the entrance to TOZ,
the Jewish health organization, Warsaw ghetto, ca. 1942

 

Jews crowded into an assembly point during the first deportation from the town of Siedlce, Poland, August 22, 1942

 

German executing a Jew at the edge of a mass grave, Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 1942

 

Rokhl Rudnitski, a member of a Jewish partisan brigade that fought the Nazis in the Lithuanian forests near Vilna, ca. 1944