Death and Concentration Camps By: Holly Latorre Sarah Pacheco

When/What it Was During 1933 and 1945 Nazi Camps 1941- killing began Concentration camps were camps that the Jewish, Gypsie, or other people were forced to go to, to be tortured or forced to do work. Adolf Htiler and the German Nazi Soldiers did not like either of them so they decided to put them in camps.

What it was used for Used to imprison its millions ‘enemies’ Forced work Extermination poisonous gas and testing medical experiments on the people. These facilities were called “concentration camps” because those imprisoned there were physically “concentrated” in one location. People taken to these camps were usually German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and people accused of socially deviant behavior. These camps were used for a range of purposes including forced-labor camps, transit camps which served as temporary way stations, and extermination camps built primarily or exclusively for mass murder Also, in the camps they had numbers tattooed into their skin as recognization for the worked since they didn’t call the prisoners by their name.

Camps Around 20,000 camps Dachau (1st camp) Auschwitz-Birkenau Treblinka Belzec Sobibór, Lublin (also called Majdanek) Chelmno Auschwitz- Brikenau: A Death Camp the killing center where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed some estimates running as high as three million persons eventually killed through gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning Treblinka: A death Camp The camp was surrounded by a high barbed wire fence camouflaged with interwoven greenery to hide what was happening inside. Appx. 850,000 people were killed here Closed in November, 1943 Belzec : Extermination camp Started as a labor camp Appx. 600,000 killed Only a handful of survivors Sobibór: Lasted 17 months Where ‘Aktion Reinhard’ (Operation Reinhard) first began, which was the code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the General Government. Only 60 people survived from Sobibo after the prisoners revolted which caused the camp to close down

A map with locations of some of the bigger concentration and death camps

Death rates Low estimate of 4,778,677 High estimate of 6,017,760 Estimate of children killed: 1,500,000 2 out of 3 European Jews were killed More than 1.2 million Jewish children were killed, tens of thousands of gypsy children, and thousands of handicapped children. These estimates came from all of the camps combined. Large-scale murder by gas and body disposal through cremation were conducted systematically by the Nazis and Adolf Hitler's SS men Millions died in the ghettos and concentration camps as a result of forced labor, starvation, exposure, brutality, disease, and execution. A low estimate Between all the countries with camps have an average of 341,334 people killed A high estimate would be 429, 840 people killed In Poland alone, 3,700,000 to 4,565,000 Jews and Gypsies were killed

Aftermath Survivors feared returning home after liberation Many violent anti- Jewish riots came post war High rates of survivors became homeless Migrated to other countries Nazis’ prosecuted Around 1945 was when they were liberated (search up) They feared returning home due to the hatred of Jews that were still in parts of Europe Homeless survivors migrated westward to other European territories liberated by western allies. Other Jewish refugees in Europe emigrated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, western Europe, Mexico, South America, and South Africa. High ranked Nazis and others affiliated with them were prosecuted

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