About Concentration Camps Welcome to the Museum of WW2 Concentration Camps Museum Entrance About Concentration Camps Dachau Sachsenhau-sen Auschwitz Buchenwald Curator’s Offices

Curator’s Office Bryce Bell, August Souza, and Alec Wong Bryce Bell, August Souza, and Alec Wong are all students a Depoali Middle School in Ms. Townsends 2 period class researching codes of WWll. Source: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005263 Google Images Place your picture here. Images acquired at Infinite Campus Return to Entry Note: Virtual museums were first introduced by educators at Keith Valley Middle School in Horsham, Pennsylvania. This template was designed by Dr. Christy Keeler. View the Educational Virtual Museums website for more information on this instructional technique.

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About Concentration Camps The Nazis set up their first concentration camp, Dachau, in the wake of Hitler’s takeover of power in 1933. By the end of the war, 22 main concentration camps were established, together with around 1,200 affiliate camps. http://www.projetaladin.org/holocaust/en/history-of-the-holocaust-shoah/the-killing-machine/concentration-camps.html Return to Exhibit

Forced Labor in Camps Forced  labor played an important role in the Nazi regime’s Jewish policy as well as for the economy of the concentration camps. Forced labor became particularly important following the outbreak of World War II, when the Nazi war economy demanded an enormous effort. http://www.projetaladin.org/holocaust/en/history-of-the-holocaust-shoah/the-killing-machine/concentration-camps.html Return to Exhibit

Splitting up When you first got to the camps, you were being split up by gender and if you were strong or weak. If you were old or to young or to weak you would go to one side and if you were strong you go to the other side. On the weak side they will tell you that they are taking tou to the gas chambers and tell you that you were going to take a bath but then they killed you. On the strong side you would be stripes and tattooed with a number. http://www.projetaladin.org/holocaust/en/history-of-the-holocaust-shoah/the-killing-machine/concentration-camps.html Return to Exhibit

Gas Chambers In the gas chambers you would be forced to go in hundreds at a time and then they would drop a can of toxic gas through a hole on the roof. People did not run because they were tired and they wanted to bathe and they also were treated nicely up until they were going in so they thought they were safe and would not panic. http://www.projetaladin.org/holocaust/en/history-of-the-holocaust-shoah/the-killing-machine/concentration-camps.html Return to Exhibit

Linked citation goes here Artifact 5 American soldiers view bodies of victims of Kaufering, a network of subsidiary camps of the Dachau concentration camp. Landsberg-Kaufering, Germany, April 30, 1945 Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Linked citation goes here Artifact 6 View of the Dachau concentration camp, Germany. Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Linked citation goes here Artifact 7 A Romani (Gypsy) victim of Nazi medical experiments to make seawater potable. Dachau concentration camp, Germany, 1944 Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Linked citation goes here Artifact 8 Human remains found in the Dachau concentration camp crematorium after liberation. Germany, April 1945. Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Linked citation goes here Artifact 9 Karl-Heinz Kusserow, a Jehovah's witness who was imprisoned by the Nazis because of his beliefs. He was a prisoner in the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps in Germany. Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Linked citation goes here Artifact 10 Jews arrested during Kristallnacht stand under guard before being deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Zeven, Germany, November 10, 1938. Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Linked citation goes here Artifact 11 Uniformed prisoners with triangular badges are assembled under Nazi guard at the Sachenhausen concentration camp. Sachsenhausen, Germany, 1938 Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Linked citation goes here Artifact 12 An official order incarcerating the accused in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp for committing homosexual acts. Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Linked citation goes here Artifact 13 Survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp gather around trucks carrying American troops, food, Water and clothing. Germany, May 1945. Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Linked citation goes here Artifact 14 Corpses stacked behind the crematorium in Buchenwald. 56,000 males died in Buchenwald and 11,000 of them were Jews. Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Linked citation goes here Artifact 15 Buchenwald, Germany, 1938-1941. Prisoners during a roll call at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Their uniforms have classifying triangular badges and identification numbers. . Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Linked citation goes here Artifact 16 View of a guard tower and fence at the Buchenwald concentration camp. Any prisoners trying to escape were shot on the spot. Escaping was a difficult task due to barbwire and guard towers surrounding the whole camp. Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit

Artifact 17 Barracks in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Where many Jews slept. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/gallery.php?ModuleId=10005189&MediaType=PH Return to Exhibit

Artifact 18 Prisoners at forced labor in the Siemens factory in Auschwitz camp, Poland, during 1940-1944. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/gallery.php?ModuleId=10005189&MediaType=PH Return to Exhibit

— National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md. Artifact 19 Women survivors in Auschwitz huddled in a prisoner barracks shortly after Soviet forces liberated the Auschwitz camp. Auschwitz, Poland, 1945. — National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md. Return to Exhibit

Artifact 20 Main entrance to the Auschwitz killing center in Poland where at least 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz and approximately 1.1 million died there. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/gallery.php?ModuleId=10005189&MediaType=PH Return to Exhibit

Artifact 21 Rail cars, discovered by Soviet forces, containing bundles to be shipped to Germany. Auschwitz, Poland, after January 27, 1945. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/gallery.php?ModuleId=10005189&MediaType=PH Return to Exhibit

Linked citation goes here Artifact 22 Arrival of political prisoners at the Oranienburg concentration camp. Oranienburg, Germany Linked citation goes here Return to Entrance

Linked citation goes here Artifact 23 View of barracks and the ammunition factory in one of the first photos of Dachau concentration camp. Dachau, Germany, March or April 1933 Linked citation goes here Return to Entrance

Linked citation goes here Back Wall Artifact Many of the early concentration camps were improvised. Here, roll call is held for political prisoners aboard a ship used as a floating concentration camp. Ochstumsand camp, near Bremen, Germany, 1933 or 1934. Linked citation goes here Return to Exhibit