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Last update 24th February 2007
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Germany including the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk in
Poland)
KL Dachau
Gatehouse seen from the outside by US Army on
liberation, 1945
By courtesy of United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, Washington DC, USA (United States National Archives) |
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Reconstructed Arbeit
macht frei gate seen from the outside today (1) By courtesy of www.he.wikipedia.org/wiki/העבודה_משחררת |
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Reconstructed Arbeit macht frei gate seen from the outside today (2) By courtesy of www.scrapbookpages.com |
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Reconstructed Arbeit macht frei gate seen from the outside today (3) By courtesy of GMS-Reisen, Switzerland |
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Original Meilensteine motto painted on roof of
kitchen /
laundry / storage building (1), 1941 By
courtesy of Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie,
Amsterdam, Holland |
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Original Meilensteine motto painted on roof of
kitchen /
laundry / storage building (2), 1941 By
courtesy of Ghetto Fighthers´ House, Israel (Photo # 9938) |
KL Sachsenhausen
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Gatehouse seen from the outside, 1941 By courtesy of Deutsches
Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
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Original Arbeit macht frei gate seen from the outside, 1941 Copyright
uncertain (For sale: Popperfoto UK Photo # LAE30035117) |
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Original
gate seen from the inside, 1938 By
courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum,Washington DC, USA (United States National Archives) |
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Reconstructed Arbeit macht frei gate seen from the outside
today By
courtesy of Gerhard Schmidt, Germany |
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Original Meilensteine
motto board on gable of barrack 1939 ?By courtesy of Sachsenhausen Memorial Museum |
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Original Meilensteine motto
painted on gables of barracks (1), post-war By courtesy of United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum , Washington DC, USA (Sachsenhausen
Memorial Museum) |
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Original Meilensteine motto
painted on gables of barracks (2), 19?? By courtesy of Sachsenhausen
Memorial Museum (Ghetto Fighters´
House, Israel (Photo #11644) |
KL Buchenwald
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Gatehouse seen from the outside by
US Army on liberation, 1945 By courtesy of United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum , Washington DC, USA |
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Original Recht oder
Unrecht - Mein Vaterland motto seen
from the outside by US Army on liberation, 1945 ? By courtesy of www.yad-vashem.org.il/, Jerusalem, Israel
(photo # ?) |
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Original Jedem das Seine gate seen from the inside, 1970s By courtesy of Corinne
Desfachelle-Krajewski, France |
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Original Jedem das Seine gate seen from the outside today By courtesy of www.scrapbookpages.com |
KL Flossenbürg
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Original Arbeit macht frei motto on left gate pillar seen from the outside post-war (1) By
courtesy of United States National Archives, Maryland, USA |
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Original Arbeit macht frei motto on left gate pillar seen from the outside post-war (2) By courtesy of Flossenbürg Memorial
Museum |
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Gatehouse and original Schutzhaftlager inscription on right gate pillar seen from the outside on liberation, 1945 By
courtesy of Flossenbürg Memorial Museum (Nederlands
Instituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie, Amsterdam, Holland) |
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Gatehouse and Headquarters/Main Administrative
Building seen from the inside when gate removed, 1949 Photographer Julien van den
Driessche or Marcel Durnez By
courtesy of Yves Durnez, Belgium |
Women´s-KL Ravensbrück
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Old gate seen from the inside at a
Himmler inspection, 1941 By courtesy of Ravensbrück Memorial
Museum |
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Pillar of old gate seen through
new gate from the outside today By courtesy of Ravensbrück Memorial
Museum |
KL Neuengamme
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Gate seen from the outside
post-war By courtesy of Neuengamme Memorial
Museum |
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Original Meilensteine motto
painted on roof of kitchen barracks post-war (close up) By
courtesy of Neuengamme
Memorial Museum |
KL Groß-Rosen (now Rogoźnica in Poland)
Gatehouse
seen from the outside, 1946
By courtesy of Ghetto Fighters´ House,
Israel (Photo #11034) |
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Reconstructed Arbeit macht frei motto on gatehouse seen from the outside today By courtesy of Gross-Rosen Memorial
Museum |
KL Niederhagen[-Wewelsburg]
Old gatehouse seen from the outside 1941
By courtesy of Kreismuseum Wewelsburg |
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New gatehouse seen from the outside post-war
By courtesy of Kreismuseum Wewelsburg |
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New gatehouse seen from the inside post-war
By courtesy of Kreismuseum Wewelsburg |
KL Stutthof (now Sztutowo in Poland)
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Gate seen from the inside at a Himmler
inspection, 1941 By courtesy of Ghetto Fighters´ House,
Israel (Photo #12267) (Stutthof Memorial Museum) |
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Gate seen from the outside today By courtesy of Stutthof Memorial Museum |
KL Arbeitsdorf
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Unfinished light metals foundry building,
post-October 1942 ?
By courtesy of Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Germany |
KL Bergen-Belsen
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Gate of outer SS-camp seen from
the outside by British Army on liberation, 1945 (1) By courtesy of Imperial War Museum,
London, UK (Photo # BU 3928) |
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Gate of outer SS-camp seen from
the outside by British Army on liberation, 1945 (2) By courtesy of Imperial War Museum,
London, UK (Photo # BU 3929) |
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Visitors´
Information Signboard as English draft version at gate of inner prisoners´
camp seen
from the outside post-war. British Army soldiers standing in front By courtesy of Roy Smith, England: http://www.geocities.com/lupinpooter/nordhausen.htm |
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Visitors´ Information Signboard as German final version at gate of inner prisoners' campseen from the outside post-war
By courtesy of Frihedsmuseet (Museum of
Danish Resistance), København, Denmark |
KL (Mittelbau-)Dora (also known as Nordhausen)
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Gate seen from the outside post-war (1) Photographer unknown. By courtesy of
Mittelbau-Dora Memorial Museum |
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Gate seen from the outside
post-war (2) By courtesy of Ghetto Fighters´ House,
Israel (Photo #11561) (Donation of Mr. Herschel Auerbach, USA) |
Austria
KL Mauthausen
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Gatehouse seen from the outside,
194? (SS-Kommandant
Franz Ziereis in front) By courtesy of Mauthausen Memorial
Museum (Andras Tsagatakis Collection) |
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Gatehouse seen from the outside today
By courtesy of www.scrapbookpages.com |
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Gatehouse seen from the inside by
US Army on liberation, 1945 (Reconstruction) By courtesy of United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, Washington DC, USA (United States National Archives) |
Poland
KL Auschwitz (I) (=Oświęcim in
Polish)
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Original Arbeit macht frei gate seen from the outside by USSR Army on liberation, 1945 By courtesy of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Memorial Museum |
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Original Arbeit macht frei gate seen from the outside today By courtesy of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Memorial Museum |
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Original Meilensteine
motto board mounted on / at? 19?? ? By
courtesy of Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum |
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Original Meilensteine motto painted on roof of kitchen barracks
and
original
Arbeit
macht frei gate
seen from the inside 19??.
Painting
? By
courtesy of Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum (Copyright © Heritage of Wladyslaw Siwek) |
KL Lublin (known as Majdanek in
Poland)
Entrance monument seen from the outside today
By courtesy of www.scrapbookpages.com |
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Main gate seen from
the outside by USSR Army on liberation, 1944
By courtesy of Majdanek Memorial Museum
(Petersburg Collection) |
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Main
gate seen from the inside by USSR Army on liberation, 1944
By courtesy of Majdanek Memorial Museum
(Petersburg Collection) |
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Entrance to camp fields and socalled economic section
seen from the outside, 1943
By courtesy of Majdanek Memorial Museum |
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Entrance to ? seen from the outside, 1943 |