The Holocaust in Poland

German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer (1908–1974)

Jewish insurgency against Nazi Germany in German-occupied Poland during World War II

Nazi extermination camp in south-eastern Poland

German-occupied zone in Poland in World War II

Nazi Germany's programme of euthanasia which claimed 275,000–300,000 victims

'''''' (, ; also 'task forces') were (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe. The had an integral role in the implementation of the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish question" () in territories conquered by Nazi Germany, and were involved in the murder of much of the intelligentsia and cultural elite of Poland, including members of the Catholic priesthood. Almost all of the people they murdered were civilians, beginning with the intelligentsia and swiftly progres

Nazi racial plan of enslavement and genocide of peoples of Central and Eastern Europe, mainly Jews, Slavs & Roma

genocide of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II

thumb|"Herzmansky is purely Aryan again!" – The Herzmansky department store in Vienna was confiscated in March 1938 after the [[Anschluss, which also took place that month.]] Aryanization () was the Nazi term for the seizure of property from Jews and its transfer to non-Jews, and the forced expulsion of Jews from economic life in Nazi Germany, Axis-aligned states, and their occupied territories. It entailed the transfer of Jewish property into "Aryan" or non-Jewish hands.

1940 military operation

famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising photograph

ghetto for the Jewish population in Białystok organized by the German occupation authorities during World War II

destruction of evidence of mass murder at Operation Reinhardt killing centres

military unit

Ethnic Ukrainian unit of the World War Two German Army.

WWII war crimes

insurrection in the Jewish Białystok Ghetto

Polish diplomats and Jewish activists who during World War II elaborated a system of illegal production of Latin American passports aimed at saving Jews from Holocaust

proscription list made by Nazi Germany targeting important members of Polish society for executions

Lithuanian killing squad

Nazi operation to deport Jews to Lublin District of occupied Poland to be confined to a concentration and forced labor camp

concentration camp; military museum

prison

Jewish-Polish politician (1895-1943)

overview of Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II

During World War II, the Nazi German ''''''' were a sub-group of the ' (mobile killing squads) – up to 3,000 men total – usually composed of 500–1,000 functionaries of the SS and Gestapo, whose mission was to exterminate Jews, Polish intellectuals, Romani, and communists in the captured territories often far behind the advancing German front. Einsatzkommandos, along with Sonderkommandos, were responsible for the systematic murder of Jews during the aftermath of Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. After the war, several commanders were tried in the Einsatzgruppen trial, conv

Jewish armed uprisings against Nazi Germany

nazi program classifying inhabitants of German-occupied territory

Selbstschutz (German for "self-protection") is the name given to different iterations of ethnic-German self-protection units formed both after World War I and in the lead-up to World War II.

attempt of colonization during WW II

thumb|200px|Polish underground Biuletyn Informacyjny (Information Bulletin), 2 September 1943, announcing death sentences carried out on collaborators, including a szmalcownik named Jan Grabiec thumb|Announcement by the governor of the Warsaw District, [[Ludwig Fischer, of 13 May 1943, encouraging the inhabitants of Warsaw to hand over communist agents and Jews to the German authorities]] thumb|200px|Directorate of Underground Resistance poster, September 1943, announcing death sentences carried out on collaborators, including Bogusław Jan Pilnik, sentenced for 'blackmailing, and delivering to

Ostindustrie GmbH ("East Industry", abbreviated as Osti) was one of many industrial projects set up by the Nazi German Schutzstaffel (SS) using Jewish and Polish forced labor during World War II. Founded in March 1943 in German-occupied Poland, Osti operated confiscated Jewish and Polish prewar industrial enterprises, including foundries, textile plants, quarries and glassworks. Osti was headed by SS-Obersturmführer , who was subordinated directly to Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl of the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. At its height, some 16,000 Jews and 1,000 Poles worked for the c

Ukrainian organization

report of the Polish government in exile in 1942

insurrection against German occupational forces

Polish holocaust survivor

official diplomatic note of the Polish Government-in-Exile (regarding persecution and crimes against Jews in German-occupied Poland; signatory: Edward Raczyński; 1942)

police unit size

rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust

Nazi and Soviet WW II war crimes in Poland

During the German Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), the Nazis brutally suppressed the Catholic Church in Poland

Internal Nazi reports on the Holocaust

former hospital for jewish mental disabled persons, Poland