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4 days ago · At least 33,000 prisoners were transferred to Nazi concentration camps—Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenbürg, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen, Gusen, Neuengamme, Sachsenhausen, and Hinzert—and nearly all were executed.
1 day ago · Himmler, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and other SS officials visiting Mauthausen concentration camp in 1941. Shortly thereafter, Himmler created the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo: criminal police) as an umbrella organisation for all criminal investigation agencies in Germany.
4 days ago · The Nazis arrested German and Austrian male homosexuals—there was no systematic persecution of lesbians—and interned them in concentration camps, where they were forced to wear special yellow armbands and later pink triangles.
- Michael Berenbaum
5 days ago · Introduced at the end of 1937, the "final solution of the Gypsy Question" entailed round-ups, expulsions, and incarceration of Romani in concentration camps built at, until this point, Dachau, Buchenwald, Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Natzweiler, Ravensbruck, Taucha and Westerbork.
3 days ago · By far the largest group of camp inmates at this time were Polish prisoners, and Dachau alone housed 13,337. At the end of 1940 inmates across all of the concentration camps numbered 53,000, rising further in 1941. Four new main camps were added—Neuengamme in 1940, Auschwitz in June 1941, Gross-Rosen in 1941, and Natzweiler-Struthof in 1941.
14 hours ago · A striped uniform worn by a concentration camp prisoner is displayed in a textiles conservation lab during the inauguration of The Moshal Shoah Legacy Campus and The David and Fela Shapell Family Collections Center, at Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, Monday, July 8, 2024.
5 days ago · Witness the horrors of the Holocaust committed in Nazi concentration camps as Allied forces liberate survivors
