Yad Vashem Archive - in pictures

An identity card of Richard Bloch, the submitter's uncle in Zvolen, Czechoslovakia. From a selection of 16 family photos, mostly from before the second world war. Photograph: Yad Vashem

Zvolen, Slovakia: A photograph of Yaakov and Regina Tandlich, before the war. Photograph: Yad Vashem

Warsaw, Poland: Destroyed buildings from a collection of photographs taken by a German soldier found after the war Photograph: Yad Vashem

Many of the photographs come from displaced persons camps, probably in Austria. Photograph: Yad Vashem

Leo Lerner with a child before the war in what was Czechoslovakia Photograph: Yad Vashem

Russia: Jewish forced labourers from Hungary in the winter of 1943. Photographs from Abraham Shpitzer Photograph: Yad Vashem

Members of a Polish battalion belonging to the Red Army where Barszt Misza served. From a selection of photos belonging to Barszt Misza, including photos of his military service, a May 1st parade, and a few family photos Photograph: Yad Vashem

Lodz, Poland: One of thirty-four photographs of the family of Moshe Langa, father of the submitter Asher Langa, before the war Photograph: Yad Vashem

Lodz, Poland: A photograph of the family of Moshe Langa. Photograph: Yad Vashem

Lodz, Poland: Yoss Horowicz in uniform, 10th October 1931. From the Moshe Langa family collection Photograph: Yad Vashem

Ya'akov Neimov as administrator of supplies to the forest units near Pinsk, Belarus, with other workers, after the liberation. Photograph: Yad Vashem