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Explore more than 100,000 collection items online through the Society’s digital collections. For over two decades, we’ve been scanning, photographing, and digitizing materials from our collections, creating a rich and growing digital archive that brings history closer to you.
The Wisconsin Historical Society offers an ever-growing digital collection. Digitized materials reflect the full range of items in the collections including photographs, letters, newsletters, films, posters, architectural drawings, menus, and ephemera.
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Warsaw Street Scene
1940
Vendor selling balloons near the central railroad station in Warsaw, Poland, about one year after the German invasion.
Jewish Ghetto, established by Germans in occupied Poland
October 1940
Children and adults in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlovwisc, Poland, posing for American journalist Alvin Steinkopf.
Burial of German Massacre Victims
1939
A group of people stand in a graveyard in Lemberg, Poland as German victims of a massacre are buried.
German Bodies
1939
Digging for bodies in a mass grave near Lemberg, Poland, where German civilians were killed by the Poles during the Nazi invasion. American journalist Alvin Steinkopf was one of a contingent of jou...
Quarantine Fence
1940
A barbed wire fence in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw constructed to quarantine people infected with lice. At this point the wall around the entire ghetto had not been built.
