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Concentration Camp System: In Depth | Holocaust Encyclopedia

The Nazi regime's extensive camp system included concentration camps, forced-labor camps, prisoner-of-war camps, transit camps, and killing ...

Dachau, the “Model” Concentration Camp, 1933-39 | New Orleans

In June 2004, while spending a weekend in Munich away from dissertation research at the Austrian National Library, I boarded a train in the ...

Nazi Camps | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Nazi Germany and its allies established over 44000 concentration camps and incarceration sites during the Holocaust. Read about the Nazi ...

Victims of Nazi concentration camps built in British Channel Islands ...

A piece of Holocaust history — a Nazi concentration camp built on Alderney, a British island — has been largely forgotten.

25 Films About The Holocaust

Sixty years after fleeing Vienna, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), an elderly Jewish woman, attempts to reclaim family possessions that were seized by the Nazis.

The final evacuation and liquidation of the camp / Evacuation ...

From January 17 to 21, the Germans marched approximately 56 thousand prisoners out of Auschwitz and its sub-camps in evacuation columns mostly heading west.

Types of camps - The Holocaust Explained

This imprisonment was an escalation of the Nazis' previous persecution of Jews. Imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camps was usually indefinite, and whilst ...

Nazi concentration camps - Wikipedia

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (German: Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and ...

The Mauthausen Concentration Camp 1938–1945 - History

On 12 March 1938 the 'Anschluss' ('Annexation') of austrofascist Austria to the German Reich took place. Two weeks later, the National Socialist Gauleiter ...

The Concentration Camp (1943-1945) - Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen

However, Bergen-Belsen differed from all other Nazi concentration camps in several key aspects. Bergen-Belsen was initially set up for Jewish hostages whom the ...

The Numbers Behind WWII's Deadliest Concentration Camp

Auschwitz was the largest and deadliest of six dedicated extermination camps where hundreds of thousands of people were tortured and ...

concentration camp summary | Britannica

concentration camp, Internment centre established by a government to confine political prisoners or members of national or minority groups for reasons of ...

The List of the Camps - JewishGen

A star means that the inmates of the camp were women. This list is far from complete. It is estimated that the Nazis established 15,000 camps in the occupied ...

Living conditions

The camp survivors perceived Majdanek as one of the most primitive of all the German Nazi camps, where the living conditions were atrocious.

The forgotten Nazi camp built on British soil | 60 Minutes - YouTube

A piece of Holocaust history — a Nazi concentration camp built on Alderney, a British island — has been largely forgotten.

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 ...

13 Best Concentration Camps & Holocaust Memorials To Visit In ...

A list of the must-visit Holocaust sites in Europe, plus best concentration camps to visit, memorials, and museums in Germany and beyond.

Search our online archive for victims of Nazi persecution

The Arolsen Archives are publishing more and more of their holdings online. It is already possible for anyone to conduct research conveniently from anywhere.

Stutthof Concentration Camp and the Death Marches | New Orleans

During World War II, inmates were brought to and evacuated from Stutthof by sea. It did resemble concentration camps like Dachau and ...

Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination ...

The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took ...