Auschwitz

Location Auschwitz was located in Oswiecim, Poland.

Established and Liberation It was established October 8,1941. The camp was liberated 4 years later on January 27,1945 by the Soviet army.

How many killed Approximately 2,1 to 2,5 million people were killed in this camp.

What was it’s use? Auschwitz was a sub and extermination camp.

Facts Auschwitz was the largest camp made during the Holocaust. At first the inmates were only Polish, by April 1942, of the 27,000 inmates, 30 percent were Poles and 57 percent were Jews. When inmates arrived to Auschwitz they were marched or driven to the main camp where they were registered, tattooed, undressed, had their body hair shaven off, showered while their clothes were disinfected with Zyklon-B gas, and entered the camp under the infamous gateway. They found also 460 artificial limbs and seven tons of human hair shaved from Jews before they were murdered.

Bergen- Belsen

Location Bergen-Belsen was located between the two cities, Bergen and Belsen.

Established and Liberated The camp was established the spring of 1943 and was liberated April 15,1945.

Number killed They say that when the camp was liberated they found 60,000 people very ill, but there were 13,000 corps found on the floor.

Main Purpose The camp was mainly used as a holding camp, but it was divided into eight different parts.

Facts Most prisoners were not forced to do labor in this camp. Anne Frank died in this camp, with her sister from typhus. There were no gas chambers in this camp, prisoners died from starvation, illnesses, and brutally beat. By the time the camp was liberated, only 6,000 remained and were sent to DP(displaced camps) to await evacuation.

Westerbork

Location This camp was located in an isolated area in the northeast, Netherlands.

Established and Liberated This camp was established in the summer or 1939, and was liberated in September 1944.

How many were killed In Westerbork, they didn’t kill any Jews. They tried to calm the prisoners into a false sense of security so they would not resist when loaded on to the trains bound for Asuchwitz and Sobibor.

Purpose Of The Camp Westerbork was a transit camp, the prisoners only stayed there for a short amount of time then moved to a death camp.

Facts School children and other members of the public joined the 168 camp survivors. Anne Frank was also in this camp at a time during the Holocaust. This camp was financed by the Jewish organizations, not the government. Westerbork was liberated by Canada.

Belzec

Located It was located in Belzec, Germany.

Established and Liberated It was established November 1940, and was liberated around June 1945.

Number Killed In Belzec, there were about 800,000 deaths.

Purpose Of The Camp The purpose of the camp was an extermination camp for mostly Jews, Romans, Poland's.

Facts The camp wasn’t using gassing until Wirth came up with the idea to start using it. This camp contained two sub-camps, one was for the Jews and all the prisoners, other was for the gas chambers and mass graves. Nazi’s destroyed all the evidence of this camp, there is nothing from it left. In the 1990’s, investigations were sent out to find out what really was the operation of the camp.

Drancy

Located Drancy was located in Paris, France.

Established and Liberated It was established on July 10,1940. It was then liberated August 17,1944.

Number Killed The facts say that there was about 63,000 people killed in this camp.

Purpose of the camp The purpose of the camp was to hold the prisoners and then send them to extermination camps.

Facts; French police raided throughout the 11th District of Paris and arrested more than 4,000 Jews. Drancy fell under control of the Gestapo Office of Jewish Affairs. 40 prisoners from Drancy were executed in revenge for a French attack on German police officers. Klaus Barbie found out that in one house all the children were being hidden and arrested 44 children and 7 adult staff members.

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