Iconic June 1941 photograph depicting a disabled Red Army KV-1 heavy tank from the 2nd Tank Division covered in non-penetrating shell impacts following fierce combat against the German 6th Panzer Division near Raseiniai. Read more
Archival summer 1941 photograph depicting a burning Red Army BT-7 fast light tank on a rural road with open hatches, indicating the crew successfully evacuated during the early days of Operation Barbarossa. Read more
Iconic photograph by Boris Sheinin showing the Soviet Black Sea Fleet battleship Parizhskaya Kommuna firing its 305 mm main guns from Yuzhnaya Bay, Sevastopol, on December 29, 1941. Read more
Historical record from the USHMM archives depicting forced labor and an SS Hauptscharführer at the Rabka forced labor training facility in occupied Poland, circa 1939–1941. Read more
Dramatic historical photograph capturing exhausted Wehrmacht infantrymen sleeping in deep snow wrapped in a Heeres Unterkunft blanket during the brutal Battle of Moscow, December 1941. Read more
Historical photograph from summer 1941 documenting a knocked-out Soviet T-34 Model 1940/1941 tank and field recovery efforts during the early months of Operation Barbarossa. Read more
Historical photograph from June 1941 documenting a fallen Soviet Red Army soldier holding an RGD-33 grenade during the border battles in Belorussia. Read more