Holocaust Photos Reveal Horrors of Nazi Concentration Camps

During the Holocaust, Adolph Hitler’s regime built camps for his “final solution” to exterminate Jews and others. Shown: children at Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland.

A Wöbbelin concentration camp survivor weeps upon learning he won’t leave with the first group taken to the hospital after U.S. forces liberated the camp, 1945.

Buchenwald survivors in their barracks after Allied liberation, April 1945. Elie Wiesel is on the second bunk from the bottom, seventh from left.

Fifteen-year-old Ivan Dudnik was brought to Auschwitz from his home in the Oryol region of Russia by the Nazis. While being rescued, he had reportedly gone insane after witnessing mass horrors.

In May 1945, Allied troops discover Holocaust victims in a railroad car that did not arrive at its final destination, believed to be the Wöbbelin concentration camp near Ludwigslust, Germany.

A pile of human bones and skulls at Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin, Poland, in 1944. Majdanek was the second largest death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland after Auschwitz.

A body lies in a crematory oven at Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, in April 1945. The camp held Jews and many others, including prisoners of war and dissenters.

Auschwitz camp, as seen in April 2015. Nearly 1.3 million people were deported to the camp, and more than 1.1 million perished.

Prosthetic legs and crutches are a part of a permanent exhibition in the Auschwitz Museum.

A pile of footwear are also a part of the Auschwitz Museum.