An open-access bibliography focusing on the persecution and murder of the Jews from 1933 to 1945, and the photographic record

Released in February 2025.

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A multilingual tool for tracing paper and digital materials, as well as (audio)visual recordings, involving photographs taken in or after 1933

Search by specific photographers, places or themes

Enabled to a large (but not comprehensive) degree via tags (keywords)

Examples of tags

Grossman, Mendel (photographer); Babyn Yar; Kraków; Sobibor / Sobibór; Aerial photographs; Camps; Ethics; Methodology & Theory; Sonderkommando photographs; Teaching and Learning

Included in the coverage

Photographs taken during liberation from the persecution and murder

Photographs of Holocaust-related former killing sites, deportation sites, camps, ghettos, and relevant buildings

Photographs of memorials related to the persecution and murder

Portrait photographs of survivors, rescuers or other involved individuals

Excluded

Online catalogues/exhibitions that were not curated; online “photo specials”; media reports; materials focusing on photographs taken before 1933; most book reviews; works that are artistic interpretations

Core team

Karel Berkhoff, Nefeli Liontou, Lisa Paduch, Anna Świtaj, Ute Wrocklage

Contributors

Daniela Baráková, Alessandra Borgese, Adrian Cioflâncã, László Csősz, Maaty Frenkelzon, Yael Fried, Eli Furman, Harco Gijsbers, Agata Jankowska, Emil Kjerte, Lovro Kralj, Lior Lalieu, András Lénárt, Steven Luckert, Lukas Meissel

Advice

Alina Bothe, Simo Muir