May

Towel made to mark the Liberation of the Netherlands on 5 May 1945

May 11, 1930, A Zionist youth group gathers in Berehovo, Carpatho-Russia, Czechoslovakia

10 May 1933, a public burning of books in Berlin, Germany

May 4, 1938, Teachers with students at a Jewish school in Sirvintos, Lithuania

May 13, 1939, Joseph and Betti Kaufherr and their daughter Hannelore board the St. Louis bound for Havanna

May 18,1939, A gathering of members of the Hashomer Ha'tzair movement in Wieliczka, Poland

Headscarf that Jana Barber received on her 14th birthday, 6 May 1945

May 14, 1941, Round up and deportation of Jews of foreign nationality from Paris, France

9 May 1942, Deportation of Jews from Eisenach, Germany

May 23, 1942, Tova Mendel (with kerchief) and Salomon Findling (tall man behind Tova) and their children Frederika, Helena, Mikulas and Israel, along with other Jews, being deported from Stropkov, Slovakia

30 May 1942, Deportation of Jews from Hanau, Germany, by German soldiers

Brooch that Berta Waldner made for her daughter Marta's 22nd birthday

12 May 1943, the remains of the Warsaw ghetto in flames

May 1944, Members of the Bielski Family Camp in the Naliboki Forest

May 1944, Jews who had just undergone selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau and were classified as “not fit for work” in a grove before being gassed

May 5, 1945, Private Hershel Wright of the US Army gives oranges to starving survivors of the Wöbbelin concentration camp

May 1945, Women in a camp barracks in Gusen Concentration Camp after liberation

May 21, 1945, Germany, Members of the Jewish Brigade with trucks from the Beriha Movement

May 16, 1948, Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp - Survivors Hold Celebratory Parade Marking the Establishment of the State of Israel