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Posted: June 5, 2009 |
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In the past decade, researchers have uncovered evidence that greatly expanded the scope of Nazi regime's known camps and ghettos in World War II. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has just released the first of a projected seven-volume "Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945" to provide a comprehensive study of all known Nazi prisons.
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| Awaiting Selection at Rail Station |
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| Jews await selection at the Auschwitz-Birkenau railway ramp in May 1944 in Poland. Uniformed prisoners and some SS men stand to the left. While notorious camps like Auschwitz and Buchenwald are well known, Nazis detained prisoners at more than 20,000 locations, new research has uncovered. |
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| Photo Credit: USHMM, courtesy of Yad Vashem |
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