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The Nazis carried out a program of Jewish property seizures that stripped European Jews of billions of dollars worth of cash, housing, businesses and personal belongings.

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Nazi German state "encouraged" Jewish businessmen, who were already facing economic and social discrimination, to sell their businesses in Germany at radically reduced prices. This is called the "Aryanization" of Jewish-owned businesses and caused many families to lose their income.

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The self proclaimed "happiest man on earth", Eddie Jaku shares his story of love and survival. He saw death every day throughout WWII, and because he survived, he made a vow to himself to smile every day.

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The happiest man on earth: 99 year old Holocaust survivor shares his story | Eddie Jaku | TEDxSydney

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Holocaust survivor Fritz Glucksteinshares her memories of Kristallnacht, the November 1938 pogroms (violent riot and burning of Jewish property)

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Please watch and listen to the story of Zehava Gealel, born in 1935 in The Hague, the Netherlands

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Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Zehava Gealel

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The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration ran displaced persons camps to care for people who had been displaced by the war until they could return home or emigrate, including Jewish Holocaust survivors. Teenagers in the Feldafing displaced persons camp in Germany pose for the camera in 1951

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After the Holocaust, many Jewish displaced persons sought to immigrate to a Jewish homeland. This photograph, taken in June 1948, shows a group of Jewish men aboard the Altalena, on their way to the newly-formed state of Israel.

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After World War II ended, Jews returning to their hometowns to locate family and reclaim property often encountered antisemitic violence. This photo, taken in July 1946, shows Holocaust survivors murdered by local residents in Kielce, Poland, being buried in a mass grave.

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After the war, the top surviving German leaders were put on trial for Nazi Germany’s crimes, including the crimes of the Holocaust. The first major trial, the International Military Tribunal, was held in Nuremberg, Germany from 1945-1946. Here, the German defendants and their lawyers listen to the trial with military police in white helmets standing behind the defendants.

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On May 5, 1945, an American soldier shows a photographer a crate of hundreds of wedding rings that had been confiscated from prisoners at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

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Newly liberated prisoners cook food on the grounds of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. This photograph was taken by an American soldier in May 1945.

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In spring 1945, the Nazi-SS sent hundreds of thousands of concentration camp prisoners on forced marches, often for hundreds of miles with little food or rest, to prevent them from being liberated by the Allied armies. Maria Seidenberger, a non-Jewish woman in Hebertshausen, Germany, secretly took this photograph of prisoners marching to the Dachau concentration camp on April 26, 1945.

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Jan Kostanski, a Polish teenager, is seen in this 1942 photograph entering the Warsaw Ghetto through a barbed-wire fence. He and his family ran a smuggling operation, helping to get food to Jews imprisoned in the ghetto. When the Germans began deportations, Jan helped several members of the Wierzbicki family (a Jewish family who had been his pre-war neighbors) to escape the ghetto. Jan’s family hid the Wierzbickis in their home.

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In November 1942, American newspapers reported that Nazi Germany planned to murder all European Jews

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In this photo, taken in May 1944, an elderly Hungarian Jewish woman walks towards the gas chambers with three young children and a baby in her arms. They have just gone through the selection process on the ramp at the Birkenau killing center, part of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex in German-occupied Poland

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Jews from the Łόdź ghetto in German-occupied Poland board trains to the Chelmno killing center.

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In eastern Europe, mobile killing squads followed behind the German army, rounding up and murdering Jews and other perceived “enemies.” In this photo, taken in Ukraine, German soldiers prepare to shoot a Ukrainian Jew kneeling on the edge of a mass grave filled with corpses.

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The Nazi concentration camp system expanded rapidly after the beginning of World War II in September 1939. By 1944, hundreds of large and small camps were established in or near factories and other areas where prisoners were forced to labor on behalf of the Germans.

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Nazi Germany used labor camps and ghetto labor to assist with the German war effort. Prisoners did backbreaking physical labor. Even children were forced to labor in factories, as seen in this 1941-1943 photo from the Łόdź ghetto in German-occupied Poland (right).

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In this photo, taken in 1941-1942, children in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania write in their notebooks. In many ghettos, Jewish communities set up schools for children, but often German authorities forced these schools to close, sending the children to work in factories instead. In Kovno, schools officially closed in August 1942, but some children continued their education in secret.

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In many cities Jewish communities were forced into ghettos. They had to move from their homes and lost their freedom of movement. Many had to labor for the Germans. Hunger and disease were common. In this photo, taken in summer 1941, Jews in the Warsaw ghetto in German-occupied Poland attempt to earn money at an open-air market.

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Gestapo (Nazi police) monitor a group of Jews who are being deported from their homes in Lörrach, Germany, on October 22, 1940. Non-Jewish neighbors watch from their windows.

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Historians estimate that approximately 250,000 people with physical and mental disabilities were murdered as part of the Nazi “euthanasia” program. Gas chambers were constructed at six sites, including Hartheim Castle (shown here), to speed up the killing.

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A synagogue in Germany was destroyed in the Kristallnacht pogrom (a violent riot directed at a single ethnic group) in 1938.

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In March 1938, Nazi Germany took over Austria. Here, Austrian Nazis and local residents humiliate Jews by forcing them to scrub the sidewalks.

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In Nazi Germany, lawmakers and scientists used the now-disproven theories of eugenics to advance Nazi racial goals. They believed they could predict whether you would become a criminal, or if you were going to be a “burden on society” based on your “race.” The Nazis classified Jews as an inferior race and outlawed “interracial” relationships. This 1938 textbook attempted to show students how to visually distinguish between German youth and Jewish youth. By the time this textbook was published, the Nazi government did not consider Jews to be German.

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A motorcyclist in Germany in 1935 looks up at a sign that reads “Jews are unwelcome here.” Many towns and businesses created their own discriminatory signs against Jews and placed them in public areas. Few Germans protested discrimination against Jews. Within three years of the Nazi Party taking power in Germany, Jews were stripped of their German citizenship.

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Antisemitism was at the core of the Nazi Party’s policies in Germany. This 1930s propaganda poster (left), which reads “Behind the Enemy Powers: The Jew,” and this drawing from a 1938 antisemitic children’s book (right), demonstrate how the Nazi government encouraged antisemitic beliefs.

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In, 1933, the Nazi Party organized a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses throughout Germany. Here, members of the SA (Nazi military) hold boycott signs and block the entrance to a store.

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Image from 1353, showing Jews being burned. During the Black Plague epidemic in Europe, Jews were wrongfully accused of poisoning water wells and spreading disease