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Shoes being sorts from victims in Auschwitz

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Shoes being sorts from victims in Auschwitz

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Glasses collected by killed prisoners in death camps

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Glasses collected by killed prisoners in death camps

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Jewish escorted towards camps

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These Holocaust photos reveal what perhaps history's greatest tragedy truly looked like for those who experienced it firsthand.

On January 19, 1942, Szlama Ber Winer made his escape. During transport from the Nazis' Chełmno extermination camp to the Rzuchów subcamp, the 30-year-old Polish prisoner slipped out of the lorry and into the forest.

From there, Winer made his way to the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, where he rendezvoused with the underground Oneg Shabbat group, which had made it their clandestine mission to chronicle the horrors that the Nazis had recently begun perpetrating upon the fellow Jewish residents of their city.

At the time, of course, the group had no idea of the full extent of what they were actually chronicling.

Before Winer escaped and contacted Oneg Shabbat, the Jewish underground in Nazi-occupied Poland, let alone the outside world, had received only scattered bits of information about what was now happening inside the newly completed camps in the forests outside Warsaw - not to mention Krakow, Lublin, and much of eastern Poland.

But in his reports to Oneg Shabbat, Winer began to fill in the gaps. He spoke of Jewish deportees, including his own family, arriving at Chełmno en masse, enduring beatings at the hands of Nazi officers, then dying in gas chambers before being dumped in mass graves - step by step, like clockwork.

Under the pseudonym Yakov Grojanowski and with the help of Oneg Shabbat, Winer documented this revelatory testimony in what would become known as the Grojanowski Report, likely the first eyewitness account of the Nazis' extermination programs to make it beyond the walls of the camps and into the halls of power in Europe.

The report never traveled far enough.

While Oneg Shabbat placed one copy in the hands of the Polish government-in-exile in London and published another batch for the German people (in hopes that it would inspire in them some sympathy for the Jews), Winer's findings never seemed to have made it onto the desks of decision-makers in either Britain or the U.S.

Those two governments, on behalf of the Allied Powers, wouldn't release their first official report on Nazi extermination efforts in Europe until the very end of 1942. By that time, Winer had been dead for six months, recaptured by the Gestapo in Warsaw then shipped to Bełżec extermination camp sometime just after his last communique on April 10.

In the two and a half years that followed, some 6 million Jews and at least 5 million ethnic Poles, Soviet prisoners, Romani, homosexuals, disabled people, and others would join Winer as the casualties of the largest genocide in human history. It would be another two to three decades before most of the Western world would more or less agree to refer to that genocide as the Holocaust.

And today, thanks in large part to the pioneering efforts of people like Szlama Ber Winer and groups like Oneg Shabbat (responsible for one of the world's richest archives of firsthand Holocaust photos and documentation), we can at least attempt to make sense of what likely remains the most tragically surreal episode in history.

Aided as well by countless Holocaust photos culled from government, military, and civilian sources (see gallery above), the world can now bear witness to an event that can never be forgotten. Thankfully, these photos and others like them can be seen by far more people than Winer's pivotal yet under-read report ever could.
After viewing the Holocaust photos above, read up on Stanislawa Leszczyńska, the woman who delivered 3,000 babies inside Auschwitz, and Ilse Koch, "The Bitch of Buchenwald." Then, take a look at the forgotten holocaust with these Armenian Genocide photos and see some of the most stirring World War 2 photos.

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The Tragedy And Perseverance Of The Holocaust, In 44 Heartbreaking Photos

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On January 19, 1942, Szlama Ber Winer made his escape. During transport from the Nazis' Chełmno extermination camp to the Rzuchów subcamp, the 30-year-old Polish prisoner slipped out of the lorry and into the forest.

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July 18, 1925
This is the date in which Hitlers book Mein Kampf was published. His book also translates to my struggle, he also wrote it while serving time in jail.
Janurary 30, 1933
This is the year in which the Nazi part was succesful and president Paul Von Hindenburg  appointed hitler as a chanceller.
March 1933
This is the first time whne the concentartion camps were created, and took over 10,000 jewish men into ¨protective custody¨.
September 15, 1935
This is when at the Nuremberg laws were established, and these denied citizenship to jews all over germany.
March 1938
This is when the Nuremberg laws were first applied to austrian Jewish population.
Septeber- october 19
Munich agreement and annexation of sudentenland, partition of Czechoslovakia
November 9-10, 1938
The naisz raveged the Jewish communities in Germany, Austria, the  Sudetenland, and Danzig.
March 15, 1939
Nazi regime dimembers the rampant Czechslovakian state
August 23, 1939
The Non-Aggression Pact between Nazi Germany and the Ussr, named by the signatories
September 1, 1939
German invasion of Poland, and two days after  WW2 began on September 3
1933-1939
Through out these six years the Nazis enacted 400 anti-Jewish laws
1939-1940
Nazi authorities divided poland, annexisng its western part to the greate Germany and establishing on the rest of the Polis territory

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Auschwitz-Birkenau-1,100,000
Treblinka-800,000
Belzec-600,000
Chelmno-320,000

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Living conditions were very poor with hard labor and no time to rest. Prisoners were barely fed were humiliated and died by starvation and exhaustion. If you were seen as sick or too weak to work then you would be either executed or moved to a death camp.

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These camps were part of Hitlers so called final solution as he grew impatient in letting them starve. The difference of concentration camps and death camps are that the death camps were used to kill as many Jews in a short time, this included firing squads, beating, and the most infamous: the gas chambers. Concentration camps however used the Jews for hard labor by barely feeding them if at all and singling out the weak (often women and children) so only the strong (often grown men)