This Month in Holocaust History

September 1939, A synagogue burning in Przemysl, Poland

September 1939, German soldiers guarding a group of Jews in Sanok, Poland

September 14, 1939, A Jewish orphanage in Warsaw, Poland, after the Germans bombed the city

September 1939, An Orthodox Jew being abused by Nazis in Kozienice, Poland

September 1941, A group of Jews in the Gross Breesen Training Farm, Germany

Velvele Valentin Pinkert, one of the 33,771 victims of the massacre at Babi Yar on September 29-30, 1941

September 1941, Jews in a Hungarian forced labor battalion

September 1942, A child deported during the “Sperre” in the Lodz Ghetto, Poland

September 1942, Jews in forced labor in Gorizia in the Italian-occupied territories

September 19, 1942, Deportation of Jews from Hollerich, Luxemburg, by the local police

September 27, 1942, Deportation of Jews from Parysow, Poland

September 1943, Children harvesting vegetables in one of the public areas in the Kovno Ghetto, Lithuania

September 1944, Bodies of Jewish victims on wood pyres in the Klooga slave labor camp, Estonia

September 1945, Children from the Otwock Jewish orphanage in a forest, Poland

September 25, 1945, A parade marking the first Congress for Survivors in the British zone, in Bergen-Belsen, Germany

September 1947, A group of passengers from the Exodus 1947, in a DP camp in Poppendorf, Germany