Photograph #: 97470Caption: A young man on a motorcycle gazes up at a sign posted on a telephone pole that reads, "Jews are not welcomed here."Date: Circa 1935Locale: Germany

Photograph #: 04467Caption: On the morning after Kristallnacht local residents watch as the Ober Ramstadt synagogue is destroyed by fire. The local fire department prevented the fire from spreading to a nearby home, but did not try to limit the damage to the synagogue.

The youth who took the series of photographs of the burning synagogue in Ober-Ramstadt, Georg Schmidt, came from a family that opposed the Nazis. The film was confiscated by police from Schmidt's home the same day the photos were taken, and developed immediately. The prints and negatives were stored in the city hall until a policeman in the service of the American occupation found them and removed them. The son-in-law of the policeman found them in a toolbox and donated them to the city archive.

Date: 1938 November 10Locale: Ober Ramstadt, [Hesse; Darmstadt] Germany

Photograph #: 46460

Caption: Ustasa militia stand guard as a long column of women carrying bundles proceeds along the main street of a town during a deportation action.Date: 1941 - 1944Locale: [Croatia] Yugoslavia

Photograph #: 05532Caption: A young boy caught smuggling in the Warsaw ghetto by a German policeman.

Date: October 1940 - May 1943Locale: Warsaw, Poland

Photograph #: 03741Caption: Austrian Nazis and local residents look on as Jews are forced to get on their hands and knees and scrub the pavement.Date: March 1938 - April 1938Locale: Vienna, Austria

Photograph #: 20210Caption: Three Jewish businessmen are paraded down Bruehl Strasse in central Leipzig, carrying signs that read: "Don't buy from Jews; Shop at German stores!"

The third marcher from the left is Chaim Bleiweiss, the donor's father. Bleiweiss owned a fur store located at Bruehl Strasse 68. The photo was produced as a postcard and sold at kiosks in Leipzig, where Chaim Bleiweiss purchased it.Date: 1937

Locale: Leipzig, [Saxony] Germany

Photograph #: 71182Caption: SA members and university students march in a torchlight procession around the bonfire of "un-German" books on the Opernplatz.Date: 1933 May 10Locale: Berlin, [Berlin] Germany

Photograph #: 50978Caption: A group of German soldiers and civilians look on as a Jewish man is forced to cut the beard of another in Tomaszow Mazowiecki.Date: September 1939 - October 1939Locale: Tomaszow Mazowiecki, [Lodz] Poland

Photograph #: 64407Caption: German soldiers of the Waffen-SS and the Reich Labor Service look on as a member of an Einsatzgruppe prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew kneeling on the edge of a mass grave filled with corpses.Date: 1941 - 1943Locale: Vinnitsa, [Podolia; Vinnitsa] Ukraine

Photograph #: 18807Caption: A religious Jew is publicly humiliated in the town square of Raciaz.Date: 1939 - 1940Locale: Raciaz, [Warsaw] Poland

A Jewish man forced to paint anti-Jewish graffiti on a shuttered storefront in Vienna

A Vienna school boy is being forced to write the word 'Jude' (Jew) at the entrance to his father's shop while his schoolmates watch. Note the shutters are drawn to protect the shop.

Cheering crowds greet Hitler as he enters Vienna. Austria, March 1938

Gypsies in caravans on a street, prior to their deportation from Vienna to concentration camps