New Light on the Nazi System of Extermination

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New Light on the Nazi System of Extermination
©Photo : Selection of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at the death camp Auschwitz-II (Birkenau) in
Poland during German occupation, May/June 1944. Jews were sent either to work or to the gas
chamber. The photograph is part of the collection known as the Auschwitz Album. See Auschwitz
Album, Yad Vashem: "The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process
leading to mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau." The collection as a whole was first published as The
Auschwitz Album in 1980 in the United States, Canada and elsewhere, by the Nazi-hunter Serge
Klarsfeld, but individual images had been published before that – for example, during the 1947
Auschwitz trial in Poland and the 1963–1965 Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. It is not known when this
particular image was first published. Date, May or June 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland. Source
Yad Vashem. The album was donated to Yad Vashem by Lili Jacob, a survivor, who found it in the
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in 1945.
Introduction
Version française // English version
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1. The first years, 1938-1941
Gerrit Hohendorf, Technical University of Munich:
Die Vernichtung von psychisch kranken und geistig behinderten Menschen unter
nationalsozialistischer Herrschaft
L’extermination de malades et handicapés mentaux sous le régime national-socialiste
K. C.Berkhoff, University of Amsterdam:
Babi Yar
Babi Yar (texte en langue française)
2. The endless radicalization, 1944-1945
Robert Rozett, Yad Vashem Memorial:
Hungary and the Jews. From Golden Age to destruction, 1895-1945
La Hongrie et les Juifs. De l’âge d’or à la destruction, 1895-1945
Daniel Blatman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem :
The Nazi Death Marches, 1944-1945
Les marches de la mort nazies, 1944-1945
Anna Hajkova, Warwick University:
Women as citizens in the Theresienstadt prisoner community
Les femmes, citoyennes de la communauté de détenus de Theresienstadt
Nadège Ragaru, Sciences Po (CERI):
Les Juifs de Bulgarie et des territoires de Grèce du nord et de Yougoslavie occupés par la Bulgarie
pendant la guerre
Glossary :
- Conceptual syntheses
Johann Chapoutot : « Solution finale », expression et projet // ‘The Final Solution’: The Term
and the Plan
Sébastien Ledoux : Mémoire de la Shoah // Remembering the Holocaust
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- Definitions
Sévane Garibian : Crime against Humanity // Crime contre l’humanité
Johann Chapoutot : Extermination camps (killing centers) // Camps d’extermination (centres de
mise à mort)
Johann Chapoutot : Gas chambers // Chambres à gaz
Johann Chapoutot : Holocaust // Holocauste
Dieter Pohl : Mass crimes // Crimes de masse
Martine Leibovici : Banality of Evil (The) // Banalité du mal (La)
Johann Chapoutot : Concentration camp // Camps de concentration
Gerd Hankel : Crime de génocide
David El Kenz : Massacre // Massacre
Johann Chapoutot :Shoah // Shoah
Pour en savoir plus
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