Placing the Holocaust

The Holocaust was not limited to iconic places like Auschwitz and the Warsaw ghetto. It transformed ordinary places – city streets, public squares, farm fields, forests. The Nazi regime and their collaborators created thousands of places where civilians were confined, tortured, exploited, and killed. The violence inspired their targets to create safe spaces, places to hide and resist. This interactive website is the first place-based, text and mapping platform for studying where, and how, the Holocaust unfolded, as described in survivor testimonies and perpetrator documents. Explore the geographies of the Holocaust from the scale of the continent to one person’s experience.