What are Concentration Camps?
The Concentration Camp (1943-1945) - Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen
Today, many consider it the embodiment of Nazi crimes. However, Bergen-Belsen differed from all other Nazi concentration camps in several key aspects.
Japanese-American Incarceration During World War II
In his speech to Congress, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, ...
World War II: Holocaust, The Extermination of European Jews
Adolf Hitler's henchmen were carrying out a mass annihilation of the Jews in Europe at their numerous concentration camps.
The Nazi Concentration Camps - HFG
The goal of this project was to write the history of the prewar Nazi concentration camps, from their uncertain beginnings in 1933 to their coordination under ...
Nazi concentration camps - Centre for Holocaust Education
Welcome to this series of six short, 30 minute lessons, that focus on what Nazi concentration camps were like.
Some British prisoners of war (POWs), who were incarcerated in the same camps, were forced to work in the factories of Auschwitz. They saw at ...
Liberation of the camps | Chemins de mémoire
22 July 1944 marked the beginning of the end of the Nazi death camps when Soviet units reached the concentration and extermination camp of Majdanek.
Kapos: collaborators, perpetrators or victims? - Sydney Jewish ...
Kapos played a pivotal role in the history of the Holocaust. Imprisoned in concentration camps, Kapos were inmates forced to serve as ...
Legacies of the Third Reich: Concentration Camps and Out-group ...
We explore the long-term political consequences of the Third Reich and show that current political intolerance, xenophobia, and voting for radical right-wing ...
The Concentration and Death Camps - Music and the Holocaust
Prisoners were often forced to perform Nazi and soldiers' songs. Camp guards ordered detainees to sing while marching or exercising or during punishment.
Concentration camps - Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine
The first concentration camp in which Ukrainians were incarcerated was the Austrian internment camp in Thalerhof during the First World War, where almost 7,000 ...
The ICRC in World War Two: The Holocaust
The ICRC has publicly expressed its regret regarding its impotence and the mistakes it made in dealing with Nazi persecution and genocide.
Historical overview: Concentration Camp - Buchenwald Memorial
Chronology of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. In 1937, the SS had a concentration camp erected just a few kilometres outside of Weimar, the famous city of ...
The Subcamp Network of the Dachau Concentration Camp
Jewish prisoners and inmates accused of some offense had to do extremely grueling work in the gravel pit. Beginning in 1938, the work of the prisoners was used ...
Belsen concentration camp 1945 - The National Archives
Adolf Hitler set up his first concentration camp in Germany in 1933, soon after coming to power. He used it to keep his opponents locked away without trial.
Prisoner Behavior and Social System in the Nazi Concentration ...
Until recently, American theory and discussion on prisoner behavior in the Nazi concentration camps differed in important ways from most European work.
What Countries Had Concentration Camps? / Countries with ...
In total, there were 22 different concentrations camps or labor camps in Estonia during World War II. The largest concentration camp was Vaivara. Nearly 20,000 ...
Interactive map: Nazi death camps | CNN
Auschwitz was only one of hundreds the Nazis established around Europe. See where the other main camps were and how many were killed in ...
Euphemisms, Concentration Camps And The Japanese Internment
A listener compares the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II to the Jewish Holocaust under the Nazis and raises the question ...
Pseudo-medical experiments in Hitler's concentration camps
The exact number is not known, but has been estimated in the hundreds. When the Auschwitz camp was dismantled victims of this experiment were transferred to ...
Prisoner B-3087
Novel by Alan GratzPrisoner B-3087 is a young adult historical fiction novel by Alan Gratz. The book is "based on the true story of Ruth and Jack Gruener," who were prisoners during the Holocaust. Prisoner B-3087 was published by Scholastic Inc in 2013.