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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.
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| 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, |
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
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