The Holocaust?

Question

I'm making a title page form my report on the Holocaust, what pictures would be good to put on it, that relate or are a part of the holocaust? Besides Hitler and the Nazi symbol.

Thanks .

Answer 1

~I would use a picture of the death camp at Jasenovak and focus the report on the none-Jewish victims of Nazis. Jasenovak was established to kill Serbs, although some Jews found their way there. For some reason, history has chosen to ignore the vast majority of holocaust victims.

You should definitely distinguish between the concentration camps, like Dachau, and extermination camps, like Chelmno. Only about 2.3 million died in the death camps. Probably no more than 80% of them were Jewish. About 14 million died in the concentration camps. Only about 3.7 million of them were Jewish. Of those Jews, many would have been in the concentration camps had they not been Jewish. Then there were the millions of Slavs and Russians and Poles and Romas who were killed where they were found and don't figure into the camp totals, not to mention the 10 million Slavs who were targeted for extermination but who were saved when the Red Army repelled Barbarossa and then defeated the Wehrmacht at Stalingrad.

Hitler and the Swastika would be poor choices. Himmler and Heydrich ran the camps, not Hitler. Operation 14f13 and the camps were an SS operation, so better logos would be the Death's Head (Totenkopf) or the SS 'double lightenbolt' collar patch.

If you want a really good graphic picture that sums up the whole affair and doesn't exclude the non-Jewish majority of the victims, go with one of the mass graves stuffed full with hundreds of emaciated nude bodies heaped atop each other ten or twenty deep in a ditch. There are any number of them available in a multitude of books or on the web. Something a little more tame might be the prisoners in the dock at the Nuremburg trials.

Kelly T is right on with the Arbeit Macht Frei slogan on the gates. It is one of the most chilling things I have ever seen and the jolt I got from touching it was far more numbing than either the ovens or the showers. It is what I used on the cover when I put together my pictures from the camps into an album. A shot from the distance of the chimneys spewing the smoke of the burning bodies over the pastoral setting the camp is also a thought.

Answer 2

A picture of the entrance of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Hitler youth, one of the pictures of the crowds at Hitler's speeches, D-day, pics of the cattle cars that transported the Jews, the ghettos, the Krematoriums at the extermination camps, the Abeit Macht Frei gate, Kanada at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the barracks, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen, Ravensbruk, Mauthausen (one of the worst camps), Terezin, there are a vast number of things that you could put on there, just do an image or web search for Nazi holocaust or any of the things mentioned above. You should be able to get some useful pics.

Answer 3

Try to get pics of Aufschwitz, if that's how it's spelled, and the death camps. Get pictures that would make an impact on people as to how serious the Holocaust really was.

Answer 4

The ironic symbol - to me at least - is the sign above the gates in the concentration camps that says, roughly "work makes you free". I can't remember it in German. A picture of the ovens would have some impact - if you've ever seen them in person, you know what I mean. Or one of the pictures of the piles and piles of glasses, fillings, hair, shoes, etc. It wouldn't take much for one of those to have great impact.

Answer 5

something to show what happened during the holocaust. maybe one of those pictures of the jewish women with shaved heads. or a picture of the test subjects. or the extremely starved skinny people. wikipedia has some good pictures.

Answer 6

the visual that gets me every time when I think of the Holocaust is the pile of shoes at the Holocaust museum in D.C.
Pictures of that nature would be most effective in my opinion.

Answer 7

Simply the Nazi swastica. It says it all. Or the picture of Adolf Hitler, if you wish.

Answer 8

How about a village of people locked in a building that was set on fire while they were inside?

You need to spend some time at the library reading about this to understand the horror of your subject matter.

Answer 9

Put people in concentration camps
as well as the Diary of Anne Frank

Answer 10

A picture of all the Catholic priests & nuns standing inside the wire.