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What are Concentration Camps?


Concentration camp | Facts, History, Maps, & Definition | Britannica

Concentration camp, internment center for political prisoners and members of national or minority groups who are confined for reasons of ...

Nazi Camps | Holocaust Encyclopedia

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

Concentration camps - The Holocaust Explained

In Nazi Germany after 1933, and across Nazi controlled Europe between 1938 and 1945, concentration camps became a major way in which the Nazis imposed their ...

Concentration camp Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

The meaning of CONCENTRATION CAMP is a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, ...

Concentration camp - Wikipedia

A concentration camp is a form of internment camp for confining political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ...

Concentration Camps, 1933–1939 | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Nazi officials established the first concentration camp, Dachau, on March 22, 1933, for political prisoners. It was later used as a model for an expanded and ...

Concentration Camps - Yad Vashem

Camps where the Nazis imprisoned their victims without trial. Although the term "concentration camp" is often used as a term for all Nazi camps, there were in ...

What are Concentration Camps? - Jewish Virtual Library

The English term concentration camp is commonly used to describe a wide number of places of internment created by Nazi Germany.

Concentration Camps - Dayton Holocaust Resource Center

To exploit forced labor of the prisoner population. This purpose grew out of a labor shortage. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (2019, ...

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 ...

Concentration camps - Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

On 22 March 1933, only a couple of months after Adolf Hitler was appointed German Chancellor, the first concentration camp of the Nazi regime was established in ...

What is a concentration camp?

The Holocaust has confused our understanding of concentration camps in that a concentration camp is not normally a death camp. They are the consequences of ...

The Concentration Camps – Inside the Nazi System of Incarceration ...

This original exhibition at the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center surveys the scope and brutality of the Nazi system of incarceration 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 ...

CONCENTRATION CAMPS EXISTED LONG BEFORE HITLER ...

Prisoners in Dachau concentration camp. July 20, 1938. German Federal Archives, picture 152-27-11A. Public domain. Camps established by the Nazi regime ...

Auschwitz-Birkenau

KL Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers. Over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives here.

Death camps - Holocaust Memorial Day Trust

In 1941-1942 the Nazis built camps in German occupied Poland whose sole purpose was to kill people on an industrial scale. Belzec, Chełmno, Sobibor, and ...

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 ...

The Holocaust | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

The Holocaust was Nazi Germany's deliberate, organized, state-sponsored persecution and genocide of approximately six million European Jews.

Concentration Camps Are Older Than World War II | Season 3 ... - PBS

Danielle looks at the grim origin of concentration and internment camps.


Prisoner B-3087

Novel by Alan Gratz

Prisoner 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.

The Red Magician

Book by Lisa Goldstein