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3 days ago · 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. Between 1.1 and 1.5 million people died there; 90 percent of them were Jews.
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4 days ago · All four of Susan’s grandparents were killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, in addition to several other family members. ... Babette Berlizheimer, in Germany during a 1991 visit ...
3 days ago · “This is Anita Lasker speaking, a German Jew.” The recording was made on April 16, 1945, at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, one day after British troops liberated the site.
4 days ago · Even as Germany’s defeat loomed, the Nazis deported nearly 1,700 Jews of the Ladino-speaking community of Rhodes to concentration camps.
3 days ago · In either case, when Germany attacked the Soviet Union, its former ally, in June of 1941, the Nazis began the systematic killing of Jews. Holocaust - Nazi Persecution, Genocide, Concentration Camps: After Kristallnacht in 1938 even more discrimination was directed at Jews, eventually leading to confinement in ghettos.
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3 days ago · Holocaust - Einsatzgruppen, Mobile Killers: Organized at the Wannsee Conference, the so-called “final solution to the Jewish question” was the systematic extermination of Jews carried out by either special mobile killing units (Babi Yar massacre) or slave-labor and extermination camps (Auschwitz, Treblinka) by Nazis in Germany and the areas they controlled.
2 days ago · The victims were taken to a concentration camp for execution to conceal their fate from the German public. [126] [125] 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.
