Nazi Hel SS

 

Nazi Hel SS by Willem van de Poll – Photographic Record of Nazi Atrocities



Date: 1945

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Medium: Spiral-bound photobook

Collection: Yavneh Klos Collection, Holocaust Archive 

This harrowing photobook, compiled by Dutch photographer Willem van de Poll, presents 26 stark images of liberated concentration camps including Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, and Mauthausen. Created under the auspices of the Allied command, it was one of the first published visual testimonies to the horrors of the Holocaust. The images—unflinching in their depiction of suffering—were meant to confront postwar Europe with the evidence of Nazi crimes.

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