Concentration Camps By Crystal Schweitzer

What are Concentration Camps? Camps that the Jewish, Gypsies and more were forced to go to live Put into camps because of religion and race Built to fit many people They had bunk beds to save room and fit more people it

What were they meant for? First meant for Jews, Gypsies and slave workers Started to kill the Jewish They were killed by poisonous gas, and testing medical experiments, and for slave workers

Some of the Concentration Camps Auschwitz Bergen-Belsen Buchenwald Dachau Treblinka

Auschwitz The largest Concentration Camp Located in Poland 3 Concentration Camps in 1 Forced work and killed people If old and weak people were sent from the forced labor camp to the death camp About 1 ¼ million people were killed here

Bergen-Belsen Located near the villages of Bergen and Belsen in Germany Built in 1943 A prison camp and Jewish slave work camp Was built to hold 10,000 people but ended up holding 41,000 people Not a killing camp but 37,000 people died there from diseases Anne Frank and her older sister were two of the most famous people who died here

Buchenwald One of the first Concentration Camps Built in 1937 Located in Weimar, Germany Held 20,000 prisoners Worked as slaves in factories near by not killing camp but many died by disease, little food, wrong kind of food, exhaustion, beatings, and execution

Dachau First Concentration Camp Built in 1933 Located in Dachau, Germany Meant to do medical experiments on prisoners Most people were either dead or diseased Harsh living conditions Not designed as a killing camp

Treblinka Located by Treblinka, Poland Opened in 1941 There were bath houses to kill people 700,000 to 900,000 people died here Some of the Jewish people who were prisoners had to press the button to release the gas to kill the Jewish

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