World War II Photographs

Belgium

• Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (CEGES-SOMA), Brussels: http://www.cegesoma.be/cms/index_en.php .  CEGES-SOMA Image Bank: http://www.cegesoma.be/cms/banque_img_en.php .

Germany

• Digital Picture Archive of the German Federal Archive: http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/.  Out of 11 million pictures, 180,000 are in their database.

Israel

• Yad Vashem Photo Archive: http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive

Netherlands:

• Image Bank WW2 (Beeldbank WO2): Dutch version: http://www.beeldbankwo2.nl/index.jsp?action=setlocale&lang=nl.  English version: http://www.beeldbankwo2.nl/index.jsp?action=setlocale&lang=en.

• Images of the Holocaust in The Netherlands: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/holland/dutchgal/index.html

• Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD), Amsterdam:http://www.niod.knaw.nl/ . Beeldbank WO2 (Image Bank, WWII: http://www.beeldbankwo2.nl/index.jsp

• The Hague Image Bank:  http://www.haagsebeeldbank.nl/thema/theme/1

• Westerbork Transit Camp Images:  http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/galleries/westerborkgal/index.html

United Kingdom

• Imperial War Museum: http://www.iwm.org.uk/ .  IWM Collections: http://iwmcollections.org.uk/qryImages.ph.

• Wiener Library Institute of Contemporary History (London): http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/collections/photoarchiveintro.aspx

United States

• Air Force Historical Resource Agency (AFHRA): http://www.afhra.af.mil/ .  AFHRA Photo Archive: http://www.afhra.af.mil/photos/index.asp

• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Global Archives – Photo Galleries: http://archives.jdc.org/photographs/photo-galleries.html?s=afp_botbann

• Associated Press Archive: http://www.ap.org/aparchive/index.html .

• Getty Images: http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/

• Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov/index.html . Prints and Photographs Online Catalog: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/ .  American Memory: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html.

• National Archives Pictures of World War II: http://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos/#aviation

• New York Public Library Digital Gallery: http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm.  This source has 70,000 digital photos.

• SIRIS (Smithsonian Institution Research Information System): http://www.siris.si.edu/.  You may want to use their tutorial.

• U.S. Army Heritage Center & Education Center–WWII Army Signal Corps: http://www.carlisle.army.mil/AHEC/mediagallery/photoGallery.cfm?id=50

• World War II: http://go.fold3.com/wwii/.  Their website keeps saying that their collection is free but to look at anything it appears that you start, first, with a 7-day free trial and after that you pay.