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<p>A group of Jewish men on a train platform with French policemen at the Austerlitz station before deportation to the Pithiviers internment camp. <a href="/narrative/6033/en">Paris</a>, France, May 1941.</p>

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<p>A group of Jewish men on a train platform with French policemen at the Austerlitz station before deportation to the Pithiviers internment camp. <a href="/narrative/6033/en">Paris</a>, France, May 1941.</p>
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A group of Jewish men at the Austerlitz station before deportation from Paris
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Budapest environs, 1944
<p>Installation of the railcar at the construction site of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, DC, February 9, 1991.</p>
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Construction of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
<p>Corpses lie in one of the open railcars of the Dachau death train. The Dachau death train consisted of nearly forty cars containing the bodies of between two and three thousand prisoners transported to Dachau in the last days of the war. Dachau, Germany, April 29, 1945.</p> <p>This image is among the <a href="/narrative/8334/en">commonly reproduced and distributed</a>, and often extremely graphic, images of liberation. These photographs provided powerful documentation of the crimes of the Nazi era. </p>
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Dachau death train
<p>Deportation of German Jews from Hanau to Theresienstadt. Hanau, Germany, May 30, 1942.</p>
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Deportation from Hanau
<p>Jewish women, children, and the elderly await deportation at the railroad station in Koszeg, a small town in northwestern Hungary. Koszeg, Hungary, 1944.</p>
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Deportation from Koszeg
<p>Jews from the <a href="/narrative/2152/en">Lodz</a> ghetto are forced to transfer to a narrow-gauge railroad at Kolo during deportation to the <a href="/narrative/3852/en">Chelmno</a> killing center. Kolo, Poland, probably 1942.</p>
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Deportation from Lodz to Chelmno
<p>Under guard, Jewish men, women, and children board trains during deportation from Siedlce to the Treblinka killing center. Siedlce, Poland, August 1942.</p>
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Deportation from Siedlce to the Treblinka killing center
<p>A member of the German SS supervises the boarding of Jews onto trains during a deportation action in the <a href="/narrative/3055/en">Krakow</a> ghetto. Krakow, Poland, 1941–1942.</p>
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Deportation from the Krakow ghetto
<p>Jews being deported from the <a href="/narrative/2014/en">Warsaw</a> ghetto board a freight train. Warsaw, Poland, July-September 1942.</p>
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Deportation from the Warsaw ghetto
<p>Deportation of Jews from the <a href="/narrative/4469/en">Westerbork</a> transit camp. The Netherlands, 1943.</p>
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Deportation from Westerbork
<p>Deportation from the <a href="/narrative/4469/en">Westerbork</a> transit camp. Members of the Jewish police are seen in the photograph. The Netherlands, 1943–44.</p>
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Deportation from Westerbork
<p>Deportation of German Jews from the train station in Hanau to <a href="/narrative/5386/en">Theresienstadt</a>. Hanau, Germany, May 30, 1942.</p>
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Deportation of German Jews from Hanau
<p>Scene during the deportation of German Jews to <a href="/narrative/5386/en">Theresienstadt</a> ghetto. Jewish deportees from the Hanau, Gelnhausen and Schluechtern districts wait with their luggage on the platform at the Hanau station before boarding the deportation train. Hanau, Germany, May 30, 1942.</p>
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Deportation of German Jews to Theresienstadt
<p>Departure of a train of German Jews being deported to <a href="/narrative/11041/en">Theresienstadt</a>. Hanau, Germany, May 30, 1942.</p>
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Deportation of German Jews to Theresienstadt.
<p>Deportation of Jews from Bielefeld in <a href="/narrative/4967/en">Germany</a> to <a href="/narrative/6400/en">Riga</a> in <a href="/narrative/5729/en">Latvia</a>. Bielefeld, Germany, December 13, 1941.</p>
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Deportation of Jews from Germany to Latvia

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