CONCENTRATION CAMPS

Here are some concentration camps that have existed
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Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Poland)

 

Historical Importance of Auschwitz: At Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi's death camps, 1.1 million people were murdered, mostly Jews. Auschwitz has become a symbol of death, the Holocaust, and the destruction of European Jewry.

 

Dachau Concentration Camp (Germany)

 

 Dachau one of the first concentration camps established by the Nazis, was located in the small town of Dachau approximately 10 miles northwest of Munich.  The location at Dachau was selected by the Nazis because it was the site of an empty munitions factory from World War One, which was ideal for the establishment of a camp.

 

Buchenwald Concentration Camp (Germany)

 



 Buchenwald concentration camp was one of the largest on German soil, with one hundred and thirty satellite camps and extension units. The name “Buchenwald” was given to the camp by Heinrich Himmler on 28 July 1937.

 

Buchenwald was situated on the northern slope of Ettersberg, a mountain five miles north of Weimar, in Thuringen. The camp was established on 16 July 1937 when the first group of prisoners, consisting of 149 persons mostly political detainees and criminals was brought to the site.

 

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp (Germany)

 

Sachsenhausen  or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD spec until ial camp1950. The remaining buildings and grounds are now open to the public as a museum.

Theresienstadt concentration camp (Czechoslovakia)


Theresienstadt, Czech Terezín, town in northern Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), founded in 1780 and used from 1941 to 1945 by Nazi Germany as a walled ghetto or concentration camp, and as a transit camp for western Jews en route to Auschwitz and other extermination camps.