Destitute Jewish prisoners lying on the bottom of a train waggon that had been transporting them from Buchenwald to Theresienstadt (Terezin), 8 May 1945. One of them appears to be dead. They were liberated by a unit of Czech partisans after travelling for three weeks without food and water. Many of the prisoners died in transit. Photograph taken by one of the partisans.
The Holocaust was the systematic murder of Europe’s Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. The Nazis also enslaved and killed other groups who they perceived as racially, biologically or ideologically inferior or dangerous. Hear seven survivors talk about and reflect on their experiences.
The Holocaust was the systematic murder of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. For the first time in history, industrial methods were used for the mass extermination of a whole people. Between 1933 and 1945, Jews were targeted for discrimination, segregation and extermination.
One of the most memorable elements of the Holocaust Exhibition is the video testimony by survivors which accompanies visitors along the route. But what happened to the survivors after the Second World War? How did they rebuild their lives in the years that followed their release from Nazi persecution?