Holocaust

A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.

Where a Japanese government official issued transit visas to Jews fleeing from Nazi-occupied Poland.

This beautiful 150-year-old synagogue survived Italy's fascist period and the Second World War.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

A striking memorial to the Jews of Leiden who were murdered during World War II is scattered throughout the city.

The final resting place of the last "gypsy king" of Poland.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

From Nazi chemicals to the CIA, this architectural marvel has played a fascinating role in German history.

A crumbling bakery where forced laborers from the nearby concentration camp toiled to feed their fellow prisoners and Nazi soldiers.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

An abandoned monument remembering the "Pančevo Holocaust" now stands as a shadow of its former self.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

The site of Austria's biggest concentration camp now honors its victims.

A preserved Nazi labor camp now has a Holocaust museum on site and memorials to the thousands that died while imprisoned at the camp.