• Certain types of camps are excluded from this list, particularly refugee camps operated or endorsed by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. (wikipedia.org)
  • These centres are not United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees-endorsed refugee camps, and the operation of these facilities has caused controversy, such as allegations of torture and other breaches of human rights. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mass internment camps did not begin or end with the Nazis - today they are everywhere from China to Europe to the US. (getpocket.com)
  • Ocasio-Cortez's comments were an "abhorrent insults to the memory of the 6 million Jews and the millions of gays, gypsies, and others who were intentionally slaughtered, worked to death, starved, gassed and tortured in the real Nazi-Fascist concentration camp," he said. (dailycaller.com)
  • To some, these comparisons minimise the use of concentration camps by Nazi Germany in its effort to exterminate Jews. (getpocket.com)
  • The tenth anniversary of the liberation of Europe's surviving Jews from the concentration camps is a significant occasion. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • But it's likely that the parents of my grandmother, Pessie Feder, who was born on 16 September 1872 to Leib and Dobrisch Muehlgrom, were also from Zalozce, where many Jews had lived back then. (centropa.org)
  • Auschwitz II was an extermination camp or Vernichtungslager , the site of the deaths of at least 960,000 Jews, 75,000 Poles, and some 19,000 Roma (Gypsies). (sources.com)
  • Caught sheltering Jews in World War II, the Dutch woman and her sister Betsie were sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp where Betsie died after being starved and beaten. (theage.com.au)
  • Hundreds of prisoners were shot and buried in mass graves in the nearby forest and serious abuse of prisoners was routine, but the Falstad camp was principally a transit camp, a waystation for political prisoners and others who were to be deported to German concentration camps, and Jews deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. (lu.se)
  • However, health service delivery to populations outside the camps remains a challenge, especially for patients with chronic illnesses since these patients require longer-term treatment. (who.int)
  • In both Nazi and Japanese camps inmates were exploited for slave labor and medical experimentation, but the Nazis also established extermination camps. (infoplease.com)
  • ( listen ) ) was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during the Second World War . (sources.com)
  • ABSTRACT Drinking water at Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp in Beirut, Lebanon is of poor quality and unpredictably intermittent quantity. (who.int)
  • These factors must be addressed to improve water quality at Shatila and other refugee camps. (who.int)
  • Leprich always said he hated being a guard in that camp (he was only 14 thru 19 years old from 1940-1945) and all he did was stand out in the cold and observe. (wjimam.com)
  • Among the most notorious Nazi camps liberated by U.S. and British troops in 1945 were Buchenwald, Dachau, and Bergen-Belsen. (infoplease.com)
  • In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. (ushmm.org)
  • By February 1945, the camp was destroyed from constant bombing. (ushmm.org)
  • In 1915 many of the smaller camps in Australia closed, with their inmates transferred to larger camps. (wikipedia.org)
  • North Korea maintains a system of political and criminal prison camps in which inmates are sentenced to harsh physical labor and are underfed and mistreated. (infoplease.com)
  • The Belgian priest Damien Reumont, a survivor of Esterwegen in Germany, insisted that conditions similar to those of concentration camps could prevail at a detention site even if inmates had been legally arrested and duly sentenced. (historytoday.com)
  • As for forced labour, he pointed out, not all Nazi camp detainees were compelled to work - while many inmates of 'normal' prisons were. (historytoday.com)
  • Later that day, soldiers from the Sixth Army Armored Division, part of the Third Army, arrived in camp and discovered more than 21,000 starved and ill inmates. (ushmm.org)
  • One such escapee was Johann Leprich, a member of an SS unit called the Death's Head Battalion (skull & crossbones) and an armed guard at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria from 1943-1944. (wjimam.com)
  • If the narrator's self-portrait in The Emigrants is en clair , he was born in 1944 into a Catholic Bavarian peasant milieu. (nybooks.com)
  • In late October 1944, after a failed uprising and the destruction of an Auschwitz crematorium, Ruth and her sister were sent in a transport to a concentration camp in Nuremberg, Germany. (ushmm.org)
  • The barbed wire electrified fence that surrounds the Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp on December 18, 2019 in Oswiecim, Poland. (getpocket.com)
  • The Auschwitz complex of camps encompassed a large industrial area rich in natural resources. (sources.com)
  • The three main camps were Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and a work camp called Auschwitz III-Monowitz, or the Buna. (sources.com)
  • Auschwitz III-Monowitz served as a labor camp for the Buna-Werke factory of the IG Farben concern. (sources.com)
  • Auschwitz I was the original camp, serving as the administrative center for the whole complex. (sources.com)
  • My mother went to Auschwitz concentration camp as soon as possible after the war. (pametnaroda.cz)
  • As an adult, when I was researching how my father got involved in resistance activities, I also visited the Auschwitz concentration camp. (pametnaroda.cz)
  • I also went to the archives there, and by coincidence I found a letter that my father had written in the camp in Myslovice, which was a kind of an entry camp of the Auschwitz concentration camp. (pametnaroda.cz)
  • He joined the Polish resistence and the Nazis executed him in 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp. (pametnaroda.cz)
  • Betsie in the story is just an otherworldly character who walks into a death camp and starts thanking God for fleas and thanking God for her own nakedness. (christianitytoday.com)
  • On a more philosophical level, one of the first things I did was jump on a plane and visit the ten Boom house in Haarlem, in the Netherlands, and then drove across Germany to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where Corrie and Betsie were. (christianitytoday.com)
  • These were relatively small secret detention centres rather than actual camps. (wikipedia.org)
  • W hen US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez prompted a public debate in June by using the words 'concentration camps' to describe detention centres at the southern US border, historians were quick to jump into the fray. (historytoday.com)
  • Several prominent Jewish groups, including Holocaust research center Yad Vashem, responded to Ocasio-Cortez's Instagram comparison of migrant detention centers to Nazi "concentration camps" on Twitter this week. (dailycaller.com)
  • Ocasio-Cortez invoked the "never again" phrase, which refers to the horrors of the Holocaust, and made a comparison between holding centers on the U.S. southern border and Nazi concentration camps in an Instagram live video Monday. (dailycaller.com)
  • The letter says that the group was "deeply disturbed" by the language used in her Instagram video, explaining the meaning behind "never again" as well as the true definition and context of what a "concentration camp" actually is. (dailycaller.com)
  • A leading Holocaust museum publicly responded to Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's allegation that the U.S. is "running concentration camps" on the southern border. (dailycaller.com)
  • As an infant, she and her family were incarcerated in a rural Arkansas concentration camp during the mass internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. (hyphenmagazine.com)
  • When the Army forced Japanese Americans into concentration camps during WWII, Fred Korematsu refused to comply with the orders. (nps.gov)
  • In 1992, reports of malnutrition and killings in concentration camps for Muslim, Croat, and Serb male civilians in Bosnia led to attempts by international organizations to identify the location of the camps and inspect them. (infoplease.com)
  • But now, the killings are back, more frequent than before and with an ominous new twist. (theglobalist.com)
  • In addition of Internierungslager (internment camp) for civilians of enemy states, Austria-Hungary incarcerated over one million Allied prisoners of war. (wikipedia.org)
  • In that camp alone, over 100,000 prisoners lost their lives. (wjimam.com)
  • Johann Rehbogen is charged with being an accessory in the murders of several hundred Jewish and Polish prisoners at the Stutthof camp just east of the Gdansk, Poland, in the early 1940s. (kpbs.org)
  • Several hundred prisoners who were no longer able to work were systematically killed by shots to the back of the neck while being told they were receiving a medical examination. (kpbs.org)
  • On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. (ushmm.org)
  • The imposition of the surveillance cameras was one of the latest repressive actions initiated by Israeli minister Gilad Erdan's committee, charged with rolling back the accomplishments the Palestinian prisoners won through years of struggle. (sfbayview.com)
  • The Head of State also mentioned the Ukrainian priest of the Greek Catholic Church who was in a concentration camp in horrendous conditions with about 700 prisoners. (president.gov.ua)
  • But politicians, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez among them, have also used the term to describe camps such as the ones the Trump administration has been running on the US border with Mexico. (getpocket.com)
  • The term was first used to describe prison camps used by the Spanish military during the Cuban insurrection (1868-78), those created by America in the Philippines (1898-1901), and, most widely, to refer to British camps built during the South African War (Boer War) to confine Afrikaners in the Transvaal and Cape Colony (1899-1902). (infoplease.com)
  • The concentration camps were ruled mostly by guards who were given strict orders. (wjimam.com)
  • Rehbogen was tracked down through a concentration camp paper trail, using documents such as laundry lists "to deduce those persons who worked as guards," Daniel Stenner, a spokesman for the court, told the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle . (kpbs.org)
  • Speaking about forgiveness in Germany in 1947, she encountered one of the concentration camp guards. (theage.com.au)
  • That murder was largely carried out at other sites, including dedicated death camps such as Treblinka in Poland. (historytoday.com)
  • Also detained and often killed in Nazi camps were Communists, Romani (Gypsies), homosexuals, and others. (infoplease.com)
  • Their experiences included concentration camps, work camps, and death camps. (bu.edu)
  • Ultimately the doctors and nurses who were involved in the gas chambers in mental hospitals moved to the death camps. (bu.edu)
  • AOC Concentration camps assured a slave labor supply to help in the Nazi war effort, even as the brutality of life inside the camps helped assure the ultimate goal of 'extermination through labor. (dailycaller.com)
  • A 94-year-old former SS guard went on trial Tuesday in a German juvenile court for alleged complicity in the mass murder of hundreds of people at a Nazi concentration camp more than 70 years ago. (kpbs.org)
  • Those who conceptualised concentration camps simply as civilian mass detention facilities agreed readily with her characterisation. (historytoday.com)
  • During the New Deal, for example, he had backed mass surveillance of some three million private telegrams of anti-New Dealers and ordered politically targeted tax audits. (independent.org)
  • Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was mocked online Tuesday evening for giving only a mild criticism to President Joe Biden's decision to open an immigrant detention facility for kids - something she called "concentration camps" when it was under President Donald Trump. (dailywire.com)
  • Under the Trump administration, Ocasio-Cortez repeatedly called the facilities "concentration camps," which is factually false. (dailywire.com)
  • I flew to the concentration camp where the Trump admin was keeping children they stole from their parents. (dailywire.com)
  • While still president, Trump spoke against the US as the world's gendarme: "The plan is to get out of endless wars to bring our soldiers back home, not be policing agents all over the world. (counterpunch.org)
  • Luburić flew back to Zagreb in early April and was promoted to the rank of general . (wikipedia.org)
  • The letter goes on to invite Ocasio-Cortez to visit a real concentration camp so to reach "a better understanding of the horrors of the Holocaust," the letter reads. (dailycaller.com)
  • Some 65,000 people died at the concentration camp, according to the International School for Holocaust Studies. (kpbs.org)
  • Rousset and his followers, in contrast to many participants in this summer's furore over Ocasio-Cortez, were not tempted to define concentration camps solely in relation to the Holocaust. (historytoday.com)
  • While many, particularly survivors, have grappled and still grapple with what truly can be said after such horrors, writing about the Holocaust is, nevertheless, a fact - indeed it was even before the end of the Second World War in ghettos, camps, among partisans, in hiding, and by refugees. (lu.se)
  • Even the survivors of the most notorious and universally recognised camps in history discovered this problem in the aftermath of the Second World War. (historytoday.com)
  • During World War I, 2,940 German and Austrian men were interned in ten different camps in Australia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Aside from death, one of the worst horrors of war in all of history was found behind the walls of the German concentration camps during World War II. (wjimam.com)
  • Imperial War Museum, German Concentration Camps Factual Survey (documentary, 2014). (infoplease.com)
  • Birkenau, the German translation of Brzezinka (birch tree), refers to a small Polish village nearby that was mostly destroyed by the Germans to make way for the camp. (sources.com)
  • Under German pressure, he was placed under house arrest , but retained de facto control of the Ustaše concentration camps. (wikipedia.org)
  • Later on, you will see the first Nazi concentration camp outside of German territory. (getyourguide.com)
  • Falstad was originally built as a school for delinquent boys, but beginning in 1941, it served as the Falstad SS prison camp under the direction of the German occupation. (lu.se)
  • Three new cases of tuberculosis (TB) have been detected in Al-Zaatari Camp -- 1 extra-pulmonary and 2 pulmonary cases (which are being treated and clinically inactive). (who.int)
  • The author Andrea Pitzer, in One Long Night , her recent history of concentration camps, estimates that at least one such camp has existed somewhere on Earth throughout the past 100 years. (getpocket.com)
  • The CBO estimates that over 10 years, the Build Back Better Act would cut hospital charity care funding by $34.5 billion. (politifact.com)
  • Step back in time on this tour of the Stutthof Concentration Camp from Gdansk. (getyourguide.com)
  • But now that "America's back," the rage is being placed on the back burner for a few years. (rt.com)
  • Finally, he ended up back in his old house in a Detroit / Clinton Township suburb, where he stayed for a number of years. (wjimam.com)
  • If he was 77 years old in 2003, that would have made him just a teenager when he was working as a concentration camp guard. (wjimam.com)
  • Paul Back just turned 76 years old and I admire his zest for life, his curiosity about everything that interests him, which is really a wide spectrum. (centropa.org)
  • back, handwritten : a Russian Jew who was a prisoner at Buchenwald for over four years gave me this. (ushmm.org)
  • Looking back at the past fifty years, since the passage of the OSH Act, NIOSH has grown and expanded throughout the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • For the NIOSH 50th Anniversary, please enjoy this limited time series of "NIOSH Now" and "NIOSH Then" where we look back at research efforts inside and outside of NIOSH from the past 50 years. (cdc.gov)
  • On March 24, 1942 all individuals of Japanese Ancestry were to report to Assembly Centers where they would be held until the permanent camps were finished. (nps.gov)
  • When it is used to refer to contemporary places, the term "concentration camp" is often reserved for the locations of the most serious human rights abuses, as when Amnesty International used it in a 2017 report estimating that 13,000 people had been murdered by Syria's Assad regime in the Saydnaya military prison outside Damascus. (getpocket.com)
  • concentration camp, a detention site outside the normal prison system created for military or political purposes to confine, terrorize, and, in some cases, kill civilians. (infoplease.com)
  • But the disturbing truth is that concentration camps have been widespread throughout recent history, used to intern civilians that a state considers hostile, to control the movement of people in transit and to extract forced labour. (getpocket.com)
  • Cruelty and the abuse of power have existed throughout human history, but concentration camps have not. (getpocket.com)
  • Ah yes, because history knows that people who run concentration camp systems almost always acknowledge to the public what they're doing. (dailywire.com)
  • When I was in elementary school, my class was shown a slideshow of some of the most well-recognized and painful images from the Nazi concentration camps. (featureshoot.com)
  • A typical treatment is that internment (FDR called them concentration camps ) was a glaring or painful exception to an otherwise good civil liberties record of the architect of the Four Freedoms speech of 1941. (independent.org)
  • The site for the camp (16 one-story buildings) had earlier served as Polish army artillery barracks. (sources.com)
  • Be moved by stories from the victims of the camp and see sights where past atrocities occurred. (getyourguide.com)
  • It was probably due to the hygienic conditions back then. (centropa.org)
  • Over the course of the 1950s, this group of predominantly non-Jewish, Western European survivors carried out pioneering investigations of internment conditions in the Soviet Union, Spain, Greece, China and French Tunisia and Algeria, in order to determine whether concentration camps persisted. (historytoday.com)
  • Conditions here were better than in the other camps. (ushmm.org)
  • Paul Back works several hours once a week in the Austrian Resistance documentation archive. (centropa.org)
  • The Dutch government has said it will make a 'generous gesture' to honour Surinamese author, activist and resistance fighter Anton de Kom, who died in a Nazi concentration camp weeks before it was freed by the allied forces. (dutchnews.nl)
  • In 1949 the French Buchenwald survivor David Rousset founded the International Commission against the Concentration Camp Regime, an organisation composed of men and women who had been interned in the Nazi camps for acts of wartime resistance. (historytoday.com)
  • After a quarter of an hour I was beaten and taken back to the house. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Additionally, prisoner-of-war camps that do not also intern non-combatants or civilians are treated under a separate category. (wikipedia.org)
  • The historical reconstruction will allow ATSDR to estimate relative concentrations of particular contaminants in the water-distribution systems during that time frame so that exposures can be quantified. (cdc.gov)
  • ATSDR planned to extensively use water-distribution system models to estimate historical contaminant concentrations in the systems. (cdc.gov)
  • In western China, "political education" camps designed to hold hundreds of thousands of people, supported by a high-tech surveillance system. (getpocket.com)
  • ATSDR requested the panel of nine experts to provide input on the agency's groundwater resources and water-distribution system modeling activities conducted from March-December 2004 at U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) Base, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. (cdc.gov)
  • The present study was a commu- million people worldwide still use (FC) bacteria in water is often used as nity assessment of the drinking water unimproved drinking water sources, an indicator of recent faecal contamina- system in Shatila Camp. (who.int)
  • Tests for mutagenicity were negative and heavy metals were not found in toxic concentrations. (cdc.gov)
  • US President Biden bellicosely proclaimed, "American is back," in his major foreign policy priorities speech at the Munich Security Conference on February 19. (counterpunch.org)
  • The largest camp was Holsworthy Internment Camp at Holsworthy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Corrie comes back and spends the rest of her life testifying to the way her faith helped her in that terrible situation. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Josef goes to find his sister but when he comes back his father is gone. (bookrags.com)
  • She said she and Papa will follow as soon as he comes back. (lilith.org)
  • The definition of a concentration camp is sometimes fuzzy, but at root, such camps represent a combination of physical and legal power. (getpocket.com)
  • Producing a universal definition that clearly distinguished concentration camps from all other carceral institutions proved a different sort of task altogether. (historytoday.com)
  • Letter from President Eisenhower to Dr. Israel Goldstein, President of the American Jewish Congress, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps . (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Additional monitoring of the patient or plasma drug concentrations may be required when different treatments or formulations are used perioperatively. (medscape.com)
  • Starting in 1914, 16 camps were built in the Austrian regions of Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg and Styria. (wikipedia.org)
  • We also collect a summary of each week's events, from one Friday to the next, so make sure you check back every week for fascinating updates on the world around to help keep you updated on the latest happenings from across the globe! (infoplease.com)
  • The dentist instructed Wiesel to come back when he felt better. (enotes.com)
  • Scared of what I might see, I left the room until the teacher told me it was "safe to come back in. (featureshoot.com)
  • Friedman's photographs are a reminder of the terrible fact that in many ways, it will never be "safe to come back in. (featureshoot.com)
  • He leaves out the estimated $43.8 billion in the Build Back Better Act to give private health insurance to the people who would have been covered under Medicaid expansion - money that would presumably reduce the need for federal spending on charity care. (politifact.com)
  • According to concentration camp experts, people begin to die due to overcrowding, neglect, and shortage of resources. (dailywire.com)
  • WHO has completed a rapid assessment for people with disabilities in Al-Qa'im and Domiz camps. (who.int)