The most harrowing images from the Holocaust that everyone needs to see, lest we forget

 

The most harrowing images from the Holocaust that everyone needs to see, lest we forget

The most harrowing images from the Holocaust that everyone needs to see, lest we forget

1. Two workers showing their liberators what their work was like in a crematorium at Dachau, May 1945. Sonderkommandos were work units made up of German Nazi death camp prisoners. They were composed of prisoners, usually Jews, who were forced, on threat of their own deaths, to aid with the disposal of gas chamber victims.

2. Smoking remains of some of the victims of the Gardelegen Massacre, Germany 1945. This scene was discovered 2 days later by American soldiers.

3. Surrendered male & female German SS soldiers are made to load corpses onto trucks under British guard at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp following its liberation, April 15, 1945.

4. German guard being forced to put bodies of prisoners into a mass grave at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp.

5.Inside the women's barracks at Auschwitz

6. Children liberated in the Auschwitz concentration camp, 1945.

7.The bodies of former prisoners are piled in the crematorium mortuary in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp. Dachau, Germany, April 29, 1945.