Images

A 1982 photograph of Simon Wiesenthal (1908-2005), a noted Nazi-hunter who dedicated his life to bringing fugitive Nazi war criminals to justice. (Dutch National Archives)

Luggage items taken from Auschwitz victims upon their arrival at the Nazi concentration camp. Auschwitz Museum.

A May 1944 photograph of new arrivals, Hunagrian Jewish people, at the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp. The arrivals are being spearated into two groups: those who will be sent to the concentration camp and those who...

Richard Baer (far left, 1911-63) and Rudolf Höss (far right, 1901-47) both served as SS commandants of the concentration camps at Auschwitz. Josef Mengele (centre, 1911-79) was a Nazi SS doctor who performed horrific pseudo-scientific...

Josef Mengele (1911-79) was a Nazi SS doctor who performed horrific pseudo-scientific experiments on detainees in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Mengele escaped to South America and this photograph dates to 1956 when he...

People Escaping from the Indian Massacre of 1862 in Minnesota, at Dinner on a Prairie, the right half of a stereograph published by Whitney Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota, the photographer thought to...

Execution of the thirty-eight Sioux Indians at Mankato Minnesota, December 25, 1862. Print by Buffalo: Hayes Litho. Co., c. 1883. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the mass execution of 38 Native Americans...

A young girl eating war bread during the First World War (1914-1918). Hoover Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Herbert Hoover, future president of the United States (1929-1933), c. 1915. Hoover Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

In Brussels, sacks of white flour and cases of condensed milk are ready for distribution, c. 1916. Hoover Presidential Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.