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January 19, 1943:

"As Nazis raid the Warsaw Ghetto for the second consecutive day, a crying child is accidentally suffocated by his terrified mother.
January 19-22: "Six thousand Jews from Warsaw are murdered at the Treblinka death camp."

"Head of the ghetto administration in Lódz, Poland, Hans Biebow (left) surveys the booty collected from the Jews under his charge.
Biebow used his extensive powers for personal enrichment.
He exploited Jewish labor and robbed Jews of their property.
In order to maximize his profits, Biebow managed to keep the ghetto open until the summer of 1944."

"As younger and older German males were conscripted into the armed forces, the Nazi authorities turned to the vast pool of labor from the conquered countries of the East to supply their needs.
Here, female workers from the Soviet Union engage in forced labor at the Siemens factory in Berlin.
They wear badges with the OST insignia, identifying them as Ostarbeiter, workers from the East."

As Nazis raid the Warsaw Ghetto for the second consecutive day, a crying child is accidentally suffocated by his terrified mother.

The words of Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn are as applicable to Jews as they were to citizens of Russia:

"What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."