Archway at Theresienstadt concentration camp
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Date
1941
Description
An archway at Theresienstadt [Terezin] concentration camp bearing the phrase, "Arbeit Macht Frei" [Work makes one free]. This image is one contained in an album found by Jacob Igra in an apartment in Sosnowiec after the war. Many of the photographs are believed to have been taken by a soldier with the SD-SIPO (Sicherheitspolizei) following the invasion of Poland in 1939. Additional photographs depict einsatzgruppen activities at sites throughout Nazi occupied Eastern Europe and may have been later additions to the album.
Type
Photograph
Region
Global
Era
The Great Depression and WW II
Topic
Genocide, Global History and Geography, Jewish History, World War II
Repository
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Identifer
98084
Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jacob Igra
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