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May 29, 2024 · Auschwitz, Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp and extermination camp. Located near the town of Oswiecim in southern Poland, Auschwitz was actually three camps in one: a prison camp, an extermination camp, and a slave-labor camp.
- Concentration Camp
The most shocking extension of this system was the...
- Stutthof
First established by the Nazis in 1939 as a camp for...
- Extermination Camps
The major camps were in German-occupied Poland and included...
- Concentration Camp
4 days ago · Sobibor ( / ˈsoʊbɪbɔːr /, Polish: [sɔˈbibur]) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland .
6 days ago · The camps were opened between 1940 and 1942, named Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III. More than 1.1 million people died at Auschwitz, with some 1.3 million total having been deported to ...
1 day ago · The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination ...
May 17, 2024 · The camps were located approximately 37 miles west of Krakow in German Occupied Poland. Auschwitz contained the facilities for a killing center. It played a central role in the German plan to kill the Jews of Europe.
