The Untold Stories. The Murder Sites of the Jews in the Occupied Territories of the Former USSR

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Photos

Babi Yar, Ukraine
The National Archives for Photos & Films, Kiev.
Copy YVA, Photo Collection 4147/107

Lubny, Ukraine. A mother with her two children at the assembly point awaiting, with other Jews from the town, their execution, October 16, 1941

Ponary, near Wilna, Poland (today, Lithuania). Scattered clothing at the execution site, 1941.

Ponary, near Wilna, Poland (today, Lithuania). Jews are led to the site of their execution by Lithuanian militiamen, 1941.

Šķede, near Liepāja, Latvia. Max Epstein and his sister Lea undressing prior to their execution, December 1941.

Šķede, near Liepāja, Latvia. Jewish women before their execution, December 1941.

Zdołbunów, Poland (today, Ukraine). Jews awaiting their execution by the German police

Šķede, near Liepāja, Latvia. Jewish women undressing before their execution, 1941

Ivangorod, Ukraine. A German policeman aims his rifle at a woman and her child, 1942

Vinnitsa, Ukraine. A German soldier shoots a Jew above a mass grave, probably 1941

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Mass Murder of Jews in Liepaja, Latvia, 1941
Archival footage of JUDENEXEKUTION IN LIBAU 1941 (Mass Murder of Jews in Liepaja, Latvia, 1941)
Courtesy of Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv/Transit Film GmbH

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Interview with Reinhard Wiener, German photographer of the mass murder in Liepaja. The interview was given on September 27, 1981.
YVA O.33 1222

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