Names of the main concentration camps during the holocaust

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  http://www.holocaust-trc.org/the-holocaust-education-program-resource-guide/auschwitz-the-camp-of-death/
Auschwitz was located at the center crossroads of many Polish cities, and, therefore it was an ideal location for the shipping of incoming prisoners from German occupied Europe. The presence of the death chambers near the barracks served as a constant reminder to the inmates that at any moment they could be sent in to the showers to be gassed and cremated

  http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/stutthof.html
Hunger played a leading part in the extermination of prisoners, for dinner the prisoners hurriedly swallowed a bowl of soup made from turnip, carrot or cabbage scraps

Nazi Camps

  http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005144
After Germany's annexation of Austria in March 1938, the Nazis arrested German and Austrian Jews and imprisoned them in the Dachau, Buchenwald, and Sachsenhausen concentration camps, all located in Germany. The Nazis constructed gas chambers (rooms that filled with poison gas to kill those inside) to increase killing efficiency and to make the process more impersonal for the perpetrators

  http://www.hmh.org/ed_glossary.shtml
These buildings held the clothing and other possessions of those Jews who had just arrived into the extermination camps and were usually gassed shortly afterward. The T-4 program served as the training ground for methods of mass murder that would later be used in the death camps, such as gassings and cremation of bodies

The Straight Dope: Did Krups, Braun, and Mercedes-Benz make Nazi concentration camp ovens? Did Hitler name the Volkswagen?

  http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1095/did-krups-braun-and-mercedes-benz-make-nazi-concentration-camp-ovens
The company has dedicated a stone memorial to the slave laborers at its headquarters in Wolfsburg, and I suppose we shouldn't hold current management responsible for crimes committed 50 years ago. Ferdinand Porsche was long viewed as an unwilling participant in Hitler's war machine but a recent investigation suggests he and his company may have been in deeper than was previously thought

  http://isurvived.org/AUSCHWITZ_TheCamp.html
Josef Mengele, conducted selections among these lines, sending most victims to the gas chambers where they were usually killed and burned on the same day. The vast majority of the victims --who came from both Western and Eastern Europe including Belgium, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, and other countries-- were unaware of their destination and of their fate

  http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=136
In France, Yugoslav Jew Robert Rothschild's tractor factory in France was given to Krupp on 27 Aug 1942 (and Rothschild was eventually murdered at Auschwitz. 48 of the 312 males and 52 of the females were registered; the remaining 790 were sent to the gas chambers.06 Feb 1943All female prisoners at Auschwitz Concentration Camp were gathered for a general roll call at 0330 hours then marched outside the camp

  http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/auschwitzbasics.html
Number of Henry Oertelt B11291The registration process also included the tattooing of the prisoners camp number on their left forearm, and photographs were taken of the prisoners from three angles. In the streaks of light can be seen the procession of women approaching in slow and orderly fashion the place where each of them lies down under the whip

  http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/Auschwitz2.htm
1962 - the first issue of the bi-weekly Oswiecimski Chemik is published, and the Chemical Factory House of Culture is opened (renamed Oswiecim Cultural Center in 1996) 1966 - Jerzy Gromkowski Powiat Hospital is opened. The majority of the Jewish men, women and children deported to Auschwitz were sent to their deaths in the Birkenau gas chambers immediately after arrival

Dachau - The First Nazi Concentration Camp

  http://history1900s.about.com/od/1930s/a/Dachau.htm
He would go on to oversee the development of the vast concentration camp system in Germany and modeled other camps on his work at Dachau.Eicke was replaced as commandant by Alexander Reiner. Violators were frequently imprisoned in Dachau in the months and years after it was put into effect.By the end of the first year, there had been 4,800 registered prisoners in Dachau

  http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005189
Tens of thousands of prisoners, mostly Jews, were forced to march either northwest for 55 kilometers (approximately 30 miles) to Gliwice (Gleiwitz) or due west for 63 kilometers (approximately 35 miles) to Wodzislaw (Loslau) in the western part of Upper Silesia. They were also forced to work in coal mines, in stone quarries, in fisheries, and especially in armaments industries such as the SS-owned German Equipment Works (established in 1941)

Holocaust Map of Concentration and Death Camps

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Around this time, killing centers were also added at the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Majdanek.It is estimated that the Nazis used these camps to kill an estimated 11 million people. At first, these concentrations camps were meant to hold political prisoners; however, by the beginning of World War II, these concentration camps had transformed and expanded in order to house vast numbers of non-political prisoners whom the Nazis exploited through forced labor

Holocaust Timeline: The Camps

  http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/TIMELINE/camps.htm
They went so far as to charge Jews for a one-way train fare and often, just prior to their murder, had the unknowing victims send reassuring postcards back to the ghettos. The total figure for the Jewish genocide, including shootings and the camps, was between 5.2 and 5.8 million, roughly half of Europe's Jewish population, the highest percentage of loss of any people in the war