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| Buchenwald concentration camp |
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Buchenwald concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager or 'KZ' Buchenwald) was a Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg (Etter Mountain) near Weimar, Thuringia, Germany (at the time, Nazi Germany), in July 1937, and one of the...
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| Auschwitz concentration camp |
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Location | May 20, 1940 | Jan 27, 1945 |
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of Nazi Germany's concentration camp. Its remains are located in Poland approximately 50 kilometers west of Kraków and 286 kilometers south from Warsaw. The camp took its name from the nearby town of Oświęcim ...
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| Bergen-Belsen concentration camp |
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Bergen-Belsen (or Belsen) was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Between 1943 and 1945, an estimated 50,000 people died there, up to 35,000 of them dying of typhus in the first few months of 1945.
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| Sachsenhausen concentration camp |
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Sachsenhausen was a concentration camp in Germany, operating between 1936 and 1945. It was named after the Sachsenhausen quarter, part of the town of Oranienburg. The camp is sometimes referred to as Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg.
From 1936 to 1945...
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| Dachau concentration camp |
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Location | Mar 1933 |
Dachau was a Nazi German concentration camp, and the first one opened in Germany, located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km (10 miles) northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria which is...
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| Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp |
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Mauthausen Concentration Camp (known from the summer of 1940 as Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp) grew to become a large group of Nazi concentration camp that were built around the village of Mauthausen and Gusen in Upper Austria, roughly east...
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| Treblinka extermination camp |
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Treblinka II was a German extermination camp in occupied Poland during World War II. Around 850,000 people - more than 99.5 percent of them Jews, but also other victims (among them 2,000 Romani people) were murdered there between July 1942 and...
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| Ravensbrück concentration camp |
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Ravensbrück was a notorious women's concentration camp during in World War II, located in northern Germany, 90 km north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel).
Construction of the camp began in November...
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| Jasenovac concentration camp |
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Jasenovac concentration camp (Croatian, Serbian: Logor Jasenovac; Cyrillic script: Логор Јасеновац) was the largest concentration and extermination camp in Croatia during World War II. It was established by the Ustaše (Ustasha) regime of the...
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| Theresienstadt concentration camp |
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Theresienstadt concentration camp (often referred to as Terezín) was a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. It was established by the Gestapo in the fortress and garrison city of Terezín (German name Theresienstadt), located in what is...
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| Stutthof concentration camp |
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Stutthof was the first concentration camp built by the Nazi Germany regime outside of Germany.
Built on September 2, 1939, it was located in a secluded, wet, and wooded area west of the small town of Sztutowo . The town is located in the former...
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| Maly Trostenets extermination camp |
Maly Trascianiec extermination camp (see alternate spellings), a small village on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, was the site of a Nazi extermination camp.
Originally built in the summer of 1941, on the site of a Soviet kolkhoz, as a...
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| Soldau concentration camp | Prison |
The Soldau concentration camp was a concentration camp established by Nazi Germany during World War II in Działdowo in occupied Poland.
With the approval of Reinhard Heydrich, Otto Rasch founded the camp in the winter of 1939/40 as a...
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| Rab concentration camp |
The Rab concentration camp (Croatian, Serbian: Koncentracijski/Koncentracioni logor Rab; Italian:Campo di concentramento per internati civili di Guerra – Arbe) was an Italian concentration and internment camp on the Adriatic island of Rab during...
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| Warsaw concentration camp |
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The Warsaw concentration camp (, short KZ Warschau) was an associated group of the Nazi concentration camp, including possibly a dedicated extermination camp, located in German-occupied Warsaw, capital city of Poland. The various details regarding...
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| Klooga concentration camp |
Klooga was a Nazi labor subcamp of the Vaivara concentration camp complex established in September 1943 in Harju County, during World War II, in German-occupied Estonia near the northern Estonian village of the same name. The Vaivara camp complex...
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| Banjica concentration camp |
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Banjica concentration camp was a Nazi German concentration camp in World War II, located in the eponymous suburb of Belgrade. It started as a center for holding hostages, but later included Jews, Serbian communists and captured partisans and Roma....
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| Sajmište concentration camp |
The Sajmište concentration camp was a Nazi German concentration camp, located on the outskirts of Belgrade. It was formed in December 1941 and shut down in September 1944. In the beginning, it was almost exclusively meant for Serbia Jews , and...
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| Chełmno extermination camp |
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Chełmno extermination camp (German name Kulmhof) was an extermination camp of Nazi Germany that was situated 70 kilometres (43 mi) from Łódź, near a small village called Chełmno nad Nerem (Kulmhof an der Neihr, in German). This was in a part of...
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| Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp |
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Płaszów was a Nazi German concentration camp in the southern suburb of Kraków, founded by the Nazis in Płaszów soon after the German invasion of Poland and the creation of the General Government. The construction of the camp, originally intended as...
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| Sobibór extermination camp |
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Sobibór is a village in Poland, Lublin Voivodship, Włodawa County, Włodawa Commune, by the river Bug. To the south and west is the protected area called Sobibór Landscape Park.
During World War II, the Nazi German Sobibor extermination camp was...
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| Oranienburg concentration camp | Location | 1933 |
Oranienburg concentration camp was one of the first detention facilities established by the Nazi when they gained power in 1933. It held the Nazis' political opponents from the Berlin region.
It was established in the centre of the town of...
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