Topics: Holocaust : Camps
Sites which are about concentration and extermination camps that were set up by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
Bergen-Belsen
Started in 1940 as a POW camp. Later it became a concentration camp. The SS took command of it in April 1943.
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Bełżec
Belzec originally began operation in early 1940 as a forced labor camp for Jews. It was destroyed and rebuild as a death camp in March 1942 as part of Operation Reinhard.
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Breendonk
The Germans transformed Fort Breendonk into a prison camp.
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Buchenwald
Buchenwald was a Nazi concentration camp established in July 1937. The prisoners were used as slave labour in local armament factories.
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Chełmno
A Nazi extermination camp that was located 70 km from Łódź.
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Dachau
Dachau was a Nazi German concentration camp near the city of Dachau. It was located north of Munich, in southern Germany.
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Falstad
Falstad was originally built as a school in Levanger, Norway. It was converted into a prison camp by the Nazis in 1941.
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Flossenbürg
Flossenbürg concentration camp was a German prison built in 1938 at Flossenbürg. The camp's site was chosen so that the inmates could be used as free labor to quarry the granite found in the nearby hills.
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Gross-Rosen
First set up in summer 1940 as a satellite camp to Sachsenhausen. It became an independent camp in 1941.
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Majdanek
Majdanek is roughly four kilometers away from the center of the Polish city Lublin.
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Maly Trostenets
Nazi extermination camp on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus. Originally built as a POW camp to house Soviets, it was converted to a death camp in 1942.
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Mauthausen-Gusen
Construction on Mauthausen was completed on August 8, 1938. It was under the command of Franz Ziereis, and liberated on May 5, 1945 by the 11th Armored Division of the US Army.
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Natzweiler-Struthof
Known as Le Struthof to the French. This camp was located in Alsace, and was about 50 kilometers South-West of Strasbourg.
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Plaszow
Plaszow was a concentration camp near Kraków. It is also featured in the movie Schindler's List.
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Ravensbrück
Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp located 90 km north of Berlin. It was founded in 1938.
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Sachsenhausen
Sachsenhausen was a concentration camp in Germany. It was operated from 1936 until 1950.
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Sobibor
Sobibor was a Nazi death camp run during the Second World War. It was located in Poland.On October 14, 1943, detainees at Sobibor successfully revolted.
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Treblinka
Treblinka was an extermination camp operated by the Nazis as part of Operation Reinhard. It was operated from July 1942 until October 1943.
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