11/27/2013Concentration <strong>and</strong> Death CampsCamp Function Location Creation Liberated Est. # DeadDachau Concentration Dachau, Germany 3/22/33 4/29/45 by USA 32,000Sachsenhausen Concentration Berlin, Germany 7/1/36 4/27/45 by USSRBuchenwald Concentration Buchenwald, Germany 7/16/37 Self-Liberated 4/11/45Flossenbürg Concentration Flossenbürg, Germany (near 5/3/38 4/23/45 by USANuremberg)Mauthausen Concentration Mauthausen, Austria 8/8/38 5/5/45 by USA 120,000Ravensbrück Concentration near Berlin, Germany 5/15/39 4/30/45 by USSRStutthof Concentration near Danzig, Pol<strong>and</strong> 9/2/39 5/9/45 by USSR 65,000Westerbork Transit Westerbork, Netherl<strong>and</strong>s 10/1/39 4/12/45Auschwitz* Extermination Pol<strong>and</strong> (near Krakow) 5/26/40 1/27/45 by USSR 1,100,000Gross-Rosen Concentration Wroclaw, Pol<strong>and</strong> 8/1/40 5/8/45 by USSR 40,000Drancy Detention Drancy, France (suburb of Paris) 5/1/41 8/17/44 by Allied ForcesNatzweiler/Strut Concentration Natzweiler, France 5/21/41 9/44 Liquidated by Nazis into 12,000hofDachauJanowska Extermination L'viv, Ukraine 9/1/41 Liquidated by Nazis 11/1/43Theresienstadt Concentration Terezin, Czech Republic (near 11/24/41 5/8/45 by USSR 33,000Prague)Chelmno Extermination Chelmno, Pol<strong>and</strong> 12/7/41 Liquidated by Nazis 7/1/44 320,000Sobibor Extermination Sobibor, Pol<strong>and</strong> 3/1/42 Liquidated by Nazis 10/1943 250,000Belzec Extermination Belzec, Pol<strong>and</strong> 3/17/42 Liquidated by Nazis 12/1/42 600,000Koldichevo Concentration Baranovichi, Belarus 7/1/42 Liquidated by Nazis 12/1/42 22,000Treblinka Extermination Treblinka, Pol<strong>and</strong> (near Warsaw) 7/23/42 Liquidated by Nazis 4/43Majdanek Extermination Lublin, Pol<strong>and</strong> 2/16/43 7/22/44 by USSR 360,000Kaiserwald/Riga Concentration Meza-Park, Latvia 3/25/43 10//13/44 by USSRBergen-Belsen Concentration Hanover, Germany 4/1/43 4/15/45 by British 35,000Dora/Mittelbau Concentration Nordhausen, Germany 8/27/43 4/9/45 by USAVaivara Concentration Estonia 9/1/43 6/28/44Sered Concentration Sered, Slovakia (near Bratislava) 1941/42 4/1/45 by USSRPlaszow Concentration Krakow, Pol<strong>and</strong> Oct. 1942 1/15/45 by USSR 8,000Holocaust6
11/27/2013Holocaust"Selection" (Auschwitz), May/June 1944.To be sent to the right meant slave labor; to the left, the gas chambers.HolocaustChildren in Auschwitz, victims of medical experiments.7