Historic prison camp to be opened to visitors

ELMIRA - Reconstruction of part of the Elmira Civil War Prison Camp on Winsor Avenue in Elmira as a museum and learning center is ...

Basic information / Visiting / Auschwitz-Birkenau

The grounds and buildings of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau camps are open to visitors. The duration of a visit is determined solely by the ...

Visiting / Auschwitz-Birkenau

The grounds and buildings of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau camps are open to visitors. The duration of a visit is determined solely by the ...

WWII expatriate concentration camp in China turns museum - Xinhua

JINAN, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- A museum on the former site of a World War II concentration camp in east China opened to visitors on Thursday. The ...

Manzanar National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

One Camp, Ten Thousand Lives; One Camp, Ten Thousand Stories ... In 1942, the United States government ordered more than 110,000 men, women, and ...

Manzanar - Wikipedia

Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from March ...

Visiting World War Concentration Camps - Birchys Berlin Tours

Visiting Concentration Camps from World War II · Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum · Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site · Sachsenhausen Memorial and ...

Commemorating Minidoka National Historic Site

Families were forced to leave their homes and belongings behind to live surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers in one of ten isolated concentration camps ...

Manzanar National Historical Site - CIPDH - UNESCO

Manzanar was a concentration camp situated at the foot of Sierra Nevada Mountains (California, United States) where more than 10,000 Japanese people were ...

Visiting Elmira Prison Camp and Cemetery - The Reconstruction Era

If you go, you should begin by going to the old water pumping station where the only known building that was part of the prison was reassembled ...

is open to visitors - KZ Gedenkstätte Dachau

"Dachau - the meaning of this name cannot be erased from German history. It stands for concentration camps built by the Nazis in their territory." EUGEN KOGON.

Civil War Prison Camps | American Battlefield Trust

Civil War Prison Camps ; Robert H. Kellog was 20 years old when he walked through the gates of Andersonville ; The Confederacy opened Salisbury Prison ; Alton ...

Alcatraz Island (U.S. National Park Service)

This small island was once a fort, a military prison, and a maximum security federal penitentiary. In 1969, the Indians of All Tribes ...

Explore the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

Auschwitz, today, is open to the public as the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. It is also the only death camp on the UNESCO World Heritage site.

Visiting the Concentration Camps - Jewish Virtual Library

Erected in 1933, Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp. Used mainly to incarcerate German political prisoners until late 1938, whereupon large numbers of ...

Old Idaho Penitentiary

Built in 1870, the Old Idaho Penitentiary is one of only four territorial prisons open to the public today.

Home of the Topaz Internment Camp Museum in Delta, Utah

We recommend visiting the Topaz Museum before traveling to the Topaz site. The Topaz Museum is open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 -5:00, year-round except ...

The Mauthausen Concentration Camp 1938–1945 - History

Political opponents and groups of people labelled as 'criminal' or 'antisocial' would be imprisoned here and forced to work in the granite quarries. Prisoners ...

Dachau Concentration Camp 1933–1945

Concentration camps are opened across the Reich to facilitate the mass imprisonment of political opponents. The Dachau concentration camp is one of these early ...

Plan Your Visit - Rohwer Heritage Site - Arkansas State University

Since very little of the original camp remains today, a trip through the museum offers the necessary background for a site visit. From there visitors can travel ...