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About 1.65 million people were registered prisoners in the camps, of whom about a million died during their imprisonment. (wikipedia.org)
Following Allied military victories, the camps were gradually liberated in 1944 and 1945, although hundreds of thousands of prisoners died in the death marches. (wikipedia.org)
During the First World War, eight to nine million prisoners of war were held in prisoner-of-war camps, some of them at locations which were later the sites of Nazi camps, such as Theresienstadt and Mauthausen. (wikipedia.org)
Many prisoners were released in late 1933, and after a Christmas amnesty, there were only a few dozen camps left. (wikipedia.org)
The prisoners at the concentration camps in Austria, like most Nazi prisoners in Germany, were forced into slavery under poor conditions that led to the death of many of them. (worldatlas.com)
As of January 1945, the camp had over 85,000 prisoners. (worldatlas.com)
Initially, the camp served as a prison camp for common criminals but was turned into a labor camp in May 1939 for political prisoners. (worldatlas.com)
On April 11, 1945, in expectation of liberation, prisoners took control of the camp . (aol.com)
July 15, 1937 Buchenwald Concentration Camp Opens SS authorities open the Buchenwald concentration camp for male prisoners in east-central Germany. (aol.com)
Nazi camp of prisoners opened in 1933. (alamy.com)
He died in Dachau concentration camp in 1945 while caring for prisoners sick with typhus. (catholicnewsagency.com)
A column of prisoners on a forced march from Dachau concentration camp. (usf.edu)
The man is charged with "knowingly and willfully" aiding and abetting the murder of prisoners at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, north of Berlin, from January 1942 to February 1945, according to the prosecutor's office in Neuruppin, Brandenburg. (cnn.com)
The charges include involvement in the shooting of Soviet prisoners of war in 1942, and aiding and abetting the murder of prisoners through the use of the poison gas Zyklon B, as well as other shootings and the killing of prisoners by creating and maintaining hostile conditions in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. (cnn.com)
This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different nationalities. (kennys.ie)
While in the last few decades there has been extensive research on the language used by the camp inmates, investigation into the mediating role of interpreters between SS guards and prisoners on the one hand, and among inmates on the other, has been almost nonexistent. (kennys.ie)
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)
A court found that he helped guard prisoners when they were forced to evacuate a Nazi concentration camp in a nearly two-week trip under "inhumane conditions," the Justice Department said. (kmuw.org)
In the early years of the Dachau concentration camp, the work imposed on the prisoners often served as harassment and punishment. (kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de)
In the spring of 1942, the regime decided to deploy concentration camp prisoners as forced laborers in war production on a large scale. (kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de)
The actual number of victims is difficult to ascertain because prisoners unable to work were returned to the main Dachau camp, from where they were then sent to the extermination camps to be murdered. (kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de)
The Dachau concentration camp developed into a collection and distribution point that arranged for the necessary replenishment of new work slaves and replaced those prisoners no longer able to endure the murderous conditions. (kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de)
In the summer of 1944, Adolf Hitler thus ordered the deportation of Jewish prisoners from the concentration camps at Auschwitz, Kaunas, and Warsaw, as well as from Hungary, occupied by Germany since March 1944, to the Reich. (kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de)
In 1942, as the deportations to the death camps began, the prisoners understood that they were living on borrowed time. (yadvashem.org)
Artifacts like this are tangible evidence of the efforts of Jewish prisoners to cling to their traditions, as a means of finding solace and spiritual fortitude in the appalling physical conditions of the French internment camps. (yadvashem.org)
Sarah Helm writes about the camp, where the "cream of Europe's women" were interned alongside its prostitutes, and members of the French resistance perished alongside Red Army prisoners of war. (longreads.com)
A small proportion of the prisoners - about 10 percent - were Jewish, but the camp was not formally designated a camp for Jews. (longreads.com)
Barbara Czarnecka (University of Bialystok), The Methods of Torture of Female Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps in the Light of Personal Testimonies and Other Documents. (lu.se)

RM D8FW02 - Dachau Concentration Camp. (alamy.com)
RM TA15YJ - Commemoration service for the victims of the Dachau concentration camp at the Munich Ostfriedhof ( East Cemetery). (alamy.com)
RM 2JJM1AM - Burial site marked as the Grave of Thousands Unknown next to the large crematorium (Barrack X) in the former Dachau Concentration Camp (Konzentrationslager Dachau), now the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site (KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau) in Dachau near Munich in Bavaria, Germany. (alamy.com)
RM 2PJ7NH7 - German civilians forced to bury starvation victims at the Kaufering IV camp, part of the Dachau concentration camp complex. (alamy.com)
04, 1968 - A memorial for the victims of fascism opened on September 8, 1968 at the parade grounds of the former Dachau concentration camp. (alamy.com)
RM PPEHBB - The US Vice-President Mike Pence and his family visit the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site and lay a wreath at the memorial for the victims. (alamy.com)
He was then imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp, where he lived in the priests' barracks, did compulsory labor, and secretly studied Czech with the future archbishop of Prague, Servant of God Cardinal Josef Beran. (catholicnewsagency.com)
Allied forces liberated Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945. (catholicnewsagency.com)
More than 2,500 Catholic priests and seminarians were imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime, of which 1,034 died in the camp. (catholicnewsagency.com)
The account forms a sequel to his earlier filmed interview with her in which he talked about being sent to Dachau concentration camp. (kingston.ac.uk)
The Dachau concentration camp had under its authority a vast network of 140 subscamps, predominantly in southern Bavaria. (kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de)
The two largest subcamp complexes of the Dachau concentration camp, in Mühldorf and Landsberg-Kaufering, were set up. (kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de)

Also detained and often killed in Nazi camps were Communists, Romani (Gypsies), homosexuals, and others. (infoplease.com)

Dachau Mauthausen Ravensbrück Flossenbürg Sachsenhausen Buchenwald Neuengamme Auschwitz Majdanek Kraków-Płaszów Natzweiler-Struthof Stutthof Bergen-Belsen Gross-Rosen Mittelbau Warsaw Hinzert From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (German: Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe. (wikipedia.org)
Among the most notorious Nazi camps liberated by U.S. and British troops in 1945 were Buchenwald, Dachau, and Bergen-Belsen. (infoplease.com)
The concentration camps operated from 1938 until the end of World War II in 1945. (worldatlas.com)
The Horrors of Auschwitz The Holocaust, which started in 1933 and continued to 1945 was an awful time where Jews were murdered and sent to concentration camps to die. (ipl.org)
On April 11, 1945, the American Third Army liberates the Buchenwald concentration camp , near Weimar, Germany, a camp that will be judged second only to Auschwitz in the horrors it imposed on. (aol.com)
1945 Auschwitz Today Auschwitz , also known as Auschwitz -Birkenau, opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps . (aol.com)
Friedrich Karl Berger was sent to Germany because he participated in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution while serving as an armed guard at the Neuengamme concentration camp system near Meppen, Germany, in 1945, according to the announcement . (kmuw.org)
On April 4, 1945, American soldiers from the 89th Infantry Division and the 4th Armored Division seized Ohrdruf, the first Nazi concentration camp liberated in Germany during World War II. (mst.edu)
Military historian Dr. John C. McManus sheds new light on the experiences of the American soldiers who liberated and witnessed Ohrdruf, Buchenwald and Dachau in his new book, "Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945. (mst.edu)

The Nazis had no plan for concentration camps prior to their seizure of power. (wikipedia.org)
During World War II concentration camps were established throughout Europe by the Nazis, and throughout Indochina and Manchuria by the Japanese. (infoplease.com)
In both Nazi and Japanese camps inmates were exploited for slave labor and medical experimentation, but the Nazis also established extermination camps. (infoplease.com)
When they were making the camps the Nazis would go around just shooting people for no reason. (ipl.org)
So Hitler and the Nazis captured the majority of the Jews and put them into these camps saying they should be here and that they deserve to died and it is all their fault. (ipl.org)
The Nazis killed about 1.25 of the people in the camps. (ipl.org)
The Nazis and their allies erected and used concentration camps for slave labour and the extermination of millions of people during World War II. (independent.co.uk)
The story of the Nazis' only concentration camp for women has long been obscured-partly by chance, but also by historians' apathy towards women's history. (longreads.com)
Later, the camp took in thousands of women captured in countries occupied by the Nazis, many of whom had been in the resistance. (longreads.com)

Jews were basically in the camp for ever until they died. (bartleby.com)
Naturally Jews were in a camp till they died or until they were too sick to live. (bartleby.com)
Have you ever heard of the nasty, disgusting, and horrible conditions that jews had to suffer with in concentration camps during the Holocaust? (bartleby.com)
Many people died in concentration camps during the Holocaust because of the environment the jews had to live in and deal with, and many families were split and torn apart because loved ones of theirs had died because of the horrible conditions in the camps. (bartleby.com)
Many of these camps didn't even have furniture for the Jews. (bartleby.com)
At these camps, Jews and other inferiors were herded like cattle, told to take off their clothes and go to the shower. (bartleby.com)
The Concentration Camps were made because Hitler hated the jews and wanted to kill all and they were kind of brainwashing them to tell them it is a wonderful place to live. (ipl.org)
So when they took power in 1933 over Germany , they were killing more and more Jews as they could by now no one was safe, I bet a lot of people were trying to move away so they didn 't have to go to the camps. (ipl.org)
There wasn't just Jews there at the camps there was also Americans there too. (ipl.org)
The main purpose of the concentration camps were to take all of the Jewish population gold because the Jews were really rich in gold. (ipl.org)
The tenth anniversary of the liberation of Europe's surviving Jews from the concentration camps is a significant occasion. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Michaela Melián's installation at the Herminengasse subway station in Vienna's 2nd District depicts the local buildings where Jews were forced to live before their deportation to death camps. (jta.org)
Two houses on the street were mini concentration camps, where Jews were kept in crowded conditions inside apartments until they were taken away one day on a lorry," Walzer said. (jta.org)
The Jews imprisoned at Herminengasse were taken to the Aspangbanhof train station, where more than 40,000 of them were loaded onto trains and transported to death camps. (jta.org)
M0re than 65,000 Austrian Jews died in the ghettos and concentration camps of Eastern Europe. (jta.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)
According to historical investigations, 1.5 million people, among them a great number of Jews, were systematically starved, tortured and murdered in this camp, the symbol of humanity's cruelty to its fellow human beings in the 20th century. (unesco.org)
The camps were utilised to incarcerate, torture and kill so-called "racially undesirable elements" of German society, such as Jews, criminals, homosexuals, and Romani, and political opponents. (independent.co.uk)
Together with Rabbi Leo Ansbacher and other Jews in the camp, they began to work by helping the sick, organizing a center for religious life, encouraging the study of Torah and establishing a Jewish burial society. (yadvashem.org)
Other Jews in the St. Cyprien and Gurs camps were not as lucky. (yadvashem.org)
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)
it grad-u-al-ly became a labor camp and final-ly a camp from which Jews were deport-ed to West-er-bork, a tem-po-rary stop before being sent to Sobi-bor or Auschwitz. (jewishbookcouncil.org)
By Febuary 11 , 1943 , when Kok-er made his first diary entry, depor-ta-tions from the Nether-lands had been going on for almost sev-en months, where-in 44 , 000 Jews had been sent to Auschwitz. (jewishbookcouncil.org)
But life for Kok-er and the Jews sent to Vught was at first not the trau-mat-ic expe-ri-ence endured by Jews in the major Nazi con-cen-tra-tion camps: because it was an intern-ment camp, Vught's Jew-ish pris-on-ers enjoyed priv-i-leges unknown to Jews in the Ger-man con-cen-tra-tion camp sys-tem. (jewishbookcouncil.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)
In August 1938, Nazi Germany sent inmates from Dachau to Mauthausen to construct a new slave labor camp. (worldatlas.com)
Mauthausen camp construction work was funded by money from several sources including money stolen from inmates. (worldatlas.com)
The first batch of inmates had to build their own prison camp in this desolate, windswept place. (bbc.com)
And in what way did the knowledge of languages, and accordingly, certain communication skills, contribute to the survival of concentration camp inmates and of the interpreting person? (kennys.ie)
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)
While interned in these camps, the Jewish inmates began to establish a spiritual council. (yadvashem.org)

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)

The packages were eventually stopped, and as deportations to death camps increased, he fought to keep names off the list. (jewishmag.com)

Almost every Jew who went to a camp died, and those lucky enough to be put in camp during liberation lived. (bartleby.com)
After the liberation of the concentration camps there were many Anti-Jewish riots, especially in Poland. (ipl.org)
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)

Dachau is one of the most-notorious Third-Reich camps. (codoh.com)
The SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) was the SS organization responsible for administering the Nazi concentration camps for the Third Reich. (sources.com)
That changed with WWII when Oświęcim, known as ' Auschwitz ' under German occupation, became the chosen site of the largest death camp in the Third Reich . (inyourpocket.com)
The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest in the Third Reich. (unesco.org)

Blessed Karl Leisner was secretly ordained a priest while imprisoned in Dachau in 1944 by a French bishop also held within the concentration camp. (catholicnewsagency.com)
In July 1944, as American forces prepared to invade Guam, Japanese forces ordered nearly the entire civilian population of Guam to move to Manenggon as well as other smaller concentration camps. (guampedia.com)

Together with its many satellite camps , Buchenwald was one of the largest concentration camps established within the German borders of 1937. (aol.com)
The Buchenwald concentration camp was constructed in 1937 about five miles northwest of the city of Weimar in east-central Germany. (aol.com)
Buchenwald , one of the biggest of the Nazi concentration camps established on German soil. (aol.com)
buchenwald .de/en/geschichte/chronologie/konz. (aol.com)
Chronology of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp . (aol.com)
The Buchenwald concentration camp , established in 1937, is located five miles northwest of Weimar, Germany. (aol.com)
Eventually administering 88 sub- camps , Buchenwald became one of the largest concentration camps on German soil. (aol.com)
Buchenwald concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. (aol.com)
In German , the camp was called Konzentrationslager (KZ) Buchenwald . (aol.com)
Buchenwald was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. (aol.com)
German prosecutors are investigating several other cases connected to the concentration camps of Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen and Stutthof, according to the Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes. (cnn.com)
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)

The three main camps were Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and a work camp called Auschwitz III-Monowitz, or the Buna. (sources.com)

Other houses on Herminengasse also had Jewish residents, though they were not defined as concentration locales. (jta.org)
An estimated 6 million Jewish people were killed in Nazi concentration camps during World War II. (cnn.com)
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)

The paper described exposing two hens and 12 rabbits to known concentrations of carbon monoxide up to 47 h over 3 days, he stated that "the boundary of injurious action of carbon monoxide lies at a concentration on all probability of 500 parts per million, but certainly (not less than) 200 parts per million. (cdc.gov)

How Did Concentration Camps Changed During The Holocaust? (bartleby.com)
During the Holocaust, many different concentration camps were built that were to change the lives of people forever. (bartleby.com)
RM P9JNKB - Detail of Sculptures representing Holocaust victims, in the concentration camp of Dachau. (alamy.com)
And in what way does the study of interpreting in concentration camps shape an interpreting concept which can help us to better understand the violent nature of interpreting in contexts other than the Holocaust? (kennys.ie)
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)
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)
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 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)

Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has doubled down on her claim that Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers housing illegal immigrants are 'exactly' like concentration camps, and now says 'not one dime' should go to the Department of Homeland Security for building the facilities. (theblaze.com)
On Wednesday morning, Ocasio-Cortez carried her narrative further, by first saying 'the U.S. ran concentration camps before, when we rounded up Japanese people during WWII. (theblaze.com)
Ocasio-Cortez further defended her use of the term 'concentration camps' to describe immigrant detention centers in an interview with an NBC News Wednesday morning. (theblaze.com)
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)

Professor Lloyd, Associate Dean and Professor of Art History at Kingston, said the collection marked the 70th anniversary of the establishment of internment camps on the Isle of Man. (kingston.ac.uk)
During the war, Britain held German, Austrian and Italian citizens in internment camps fearing that they could pose a risk to the country. (kingston.ac.uk)

Before and during the Second World War , several concentration camps were maintained and controlled by Nazi Germany throughout its territories. (worldatlas.com)
Apart from Germany, there were concentration camps throughout Europe, particularly countries where Nazi Germany had control. (worldatlas.com)
Immediately after the annexation of Austria, Nazi Germany erected the Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen and several other subcamps throughout the country. (worldatlas.com)
Mauthausen was the last Nazi Germany concentration camp to be liberated by the Allies. (worldatlas.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)

The former Mauthausen Concentration Camp in Austria. (worldatlas.com)
One such camp is the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex in Austria. (worldatlas.com)
Although the number of deaths is unknown, several sources place it as 122,000-320,000 people for the whole Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex. (worldatlas.com)
Because the Mauthausen and Gusen camps were not adequate to hold the increasing number of detainees, additional subcamps were established. (worldatlas.com)
Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex had one of the most severe and brutal regimes. (worldatlas.com)

The freshman congresswoman sparked outrage Monday night when she posted a video on Instagram wherein she equated the detention centers to concentration camps and accused President Donald Trump of being a 'fascist. (theblaze.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)

Just last week, a former secretary from the Stutthof concentration camp was charged with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people. (cnn.com)
A 100-year-old former concentration camp guard has been charged with complicity in 3,518 murders as Germany races to bring surviving Nazi staff to justice, prosecutors told AFP on Monday. (thelocal.de)

Armaments workshops were set up in the concentration camps, but primarily external work details and subcamps were located near armament manufacturers. (kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de)

During the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Armenians were held in camps during their deportation into the Syrian Desert. (wikipedia.org)

Those who committed crimes within the camps such as not saluting when a German is passing by were sent to work in the quarry. (worldatlas.com)

People look at the gas chamber as they are visiting museum in former Nazi Death Camp Stutthof, in Sztutowo, July 21, 2020. (cnn.com)
The pyres of burning bodies in the forests around Nazi Germany's Stutthof concentration camp still haunt 93-year-old Marek Dunin-Wasowicz, a crucial witness in the trial of former SS guard Bruno Dey which is expected to close on July 23, 2020. (cnn.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)

The first camps were established in March 1933 immediately after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. (wikipedia.org)
The first of such camps were erected in Germany after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party took control of the country. (worldatlas.com)

There were many horrors of concentration camps such as being tortured, put to death, and contained poor living condition. (bartleby.com)

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)

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)

One year after receiving a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder, five of 12 Cambodian concentration camp survivors who entered a treatment program no longer met the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, and symptoms in three others had improved. (nih.gov)
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)
Inside were handwritten notes from interviews with survivors and with SS suspects - some of the earliest evidence gathered about the camp. (longreads.com)

Museums commemorating the victims of the Nazi regime have been established at many of the former camps and the Nazi concentration camp system has become a universal symbol of violence and terror. (wikipedia.org)

If they were lucky, their concentration camp would've been liberated by the Allies. (bartleby.com)
Ravensbrück opened in May 1939, just under four months before the outbreak of war, and was liberated by the Russians six years later - it was one of the very last camps to be reached by the Allies. (longreads.com)

Established by Mao Zedong in the 1940s, China's concentration camp system has committed 50 million people, intellectuals, workers, students, peasants, to a life of hell over the last eighty years, with 20 million deaths. (arte.tv)

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)
At this moment, China has as many as one million Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities held in concentration camps. (peacevoice.info)

Arrested in January 1942, Nansen, son of polar explorer and humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen (Nobel Peace Prize, 1922), was held captive in various Nazi camps in Norway and Germany. (scandinaviahouse.org)

Last Sunday, Henkes joined the ranks of the saints and beatified priests and religious who died witnessing to Christ amid the inhumanity and horror of the Nazi concentration camps. (catholicnewsagency.com)
Ultimately, he felt, the only meaningful criterion for identifying a concentration camp was its extreme inhumanity. (historytoday.com)

In Poland one of the largest concentration camps, Auschwitz, where 1.3 million people died. (ipl.org)
The station apologized to the Polish American Congress, the Kosciuszko Foundation and the Polish Consulate for describing the Auschwitz concentration camp that Hitler's SS operated in German-occupied Poland as "Polish" instead of German. (current.org)
That murder was largely carried out at other sites, including dedicated death camps such as Treblinka in Poland. (historytoday.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)
The site for the camp (16 one-story buildings) had earlier served as Polish army artillery barracks. (sources.com)
Total amount provided to the property: USD 20,000 by the State Party of Israel for an expert workshop (13-15 May 2004) on the preparation of a management plan for the Auschwitz Concentration Camp as well as the visit of a Polish expert to the Documentation Centre at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel. (unesco.org)

the death rate of these camps was 45 per cent, twice that of the British camps. (wikipedia.org)
Alongside that, the so called "concentration camps" were basically almost becoming, or were, actual death camps. (bartleby.com)
The events that took place at Death camps were horrific and very hard to understand. (bartleby.com)
Auschwitz, the death camp, was a horrible place where many people died, lost hope, and were stripped of civilization all because of their religion and race. (ipl.org)
The Wiener Linien installation unveiled Thursday at the Herminengasse, or Herminen Alley, station features a graphic scheme in which each identified victim who had lived on that alley is represented by a black line, stretching through a visual representation of its 21 buildings to Nazi death camps across Europe. (jta.org)
She defended herself on Twitter the next day, accusing 'shrieking Republicans' of not understanding the difference between concentration camps and death camps. (theblaze.com)

He admits to having worked at the camp but denies knowing about any murders there," NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports from Berlin. (kpbs.org)
The charges assume that they supported systematic murders in a concentration camp by being a part of the camp personnel," Rommel said. (kpbs.org)

After the beginning of World War II, people from German-occupied Europe were imprisoned in the concentration camps. (wikipedia.org)
The name "concentration" was used in reference to the idea of confining a large number of people in one place because they were "undesirable. (worldatlas.com)
Hitler basically made the camps to torture people and to kill them too. (ipl.org)
To finish it the concentrations camp degraded people slowly in the worst kind of torture so that they would finally die. (ipl.org)
Soldiers from the 6th Armored Division, part of the Third Army, found more than 21,000 people in the camp . (aol.com)
He described the situation in Dachau in a letter smuggled out of the camp through a middleman: "People are dying in masses because they are completely starving. (catholicnewsagency.com)
German prosecutors have charged a 100-year-old former SS concentration camp guard with aiding and abetting the murder of 3,518 people. (cnn.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)
Thousands of people, from infants to the elderly, were forced to march to the Manenggon camp, with very little possessions, from as far north as Yigo and as far west as Hågat . (guampedia.com)
People from the central part of the island stayed at a camp along the Pago River called Asinan, though many of them were later marched to Manenggon. (guampedia.com)
Oftentimes when people - you know when the term concentration camp is evoked - what people think of are extermination camps,' she continued. (theblaze.com)
Every time I try to tell people about fema camps they say men in white coats are coming for me , I say no MEN IN BLACK! (12160.info)

The early camps in 1933-1934 were heterogeneous and fundamentally differed from the post-1935 camps in organization, conditions, and the groups imprisoned. (wikipedia.org)
The tweet included a link to an article from the organization about concentration camps. (dailycaller.com)

The concentration camp system arose in the following months due to the desire to suppress tens of thousands of Nazi opponents in Germany. (wikipedia.org)
literally 'beech forest') was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. (aol.com)
Fist of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany. (alamy.com)
The 'secret preacher of block 17' who witnessed to Christ in a Nazi concentration camp was beatified this week in Limburg, Germany. (catholicnewsagency.com)
A 95-year-old Tennessee man has been deported to Germany because he worked as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, the Justice Department announced Saturday. (kmuw.org)
The court's decision also cited Berger's admission that he never requested a transfer from concentration camp guard service and that he continues to receive a pension from Germany based on his employment in Germany, "including his wartime service. (kmuw.org)

Many of the soldiers who liberated the camps did not even know what they were doing. (ipl.org)
The Japanese soldiers also rounded up men from the Manenggon camp and took them in work groups to carry munitions and other supplies in other parts of the island. (guampedia.com)

Lice and fleas are a big part of conditions in concentration camps, another horrible condition in the camps are diseases and sanitation, lastly another awful condition in concentration camps is mass murder and starvation. (bartleby.com)

12 Nazi Concentration Camps opens October 13th at the Cincinnati Skirball Museum . (featureshoot.com)

Hailed by The New Yorker as "among the most compelling documents to come out of the war," From Day to Day is a World War II concentration camp diary-one of only a handful ever translated into English-secretly written by Odd Nansen, a Norwegian. (scandinaviahouse.org)
One of the worst atrocities that took place at the end of the Japanese occupation of Guam during World War II was the Manenggon concentration camp. (guampedia.com)

Producing a universal definition that clearly distinguished concentration camps from all other carceral institutions proved a different sort of task altogether. (historytoday.com)

It was located among the remains of a prison camp - one very different from the scores of old Gulag outposts scattered across the Russian north and Siberia. (bbc.com)

It also said a study was needed to see if such exposure at Camp Lejeune posed a threat to fetuses and infants. (cdc.gov)
A major public health near the fire perimeter of wildfire incidents in California and concern associated with wildfires is exposure to air pollutants, Oregon experienced high concentrations of PM2.5, as mea- such as fine inhalable particles in smoke, with aerodynamic sured by air quality monitors, resulting in "Unhealthy" to diameters 2.5 m (particulate matter [PM]2.5). (cdc.gov)
These fire camp ity are associated with smoke exposure* ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
It has been claimed that whenever these limits have been implemented in a particular industry, no worker has been shown to have sustained serious adverse effects on his health as a result of exposure to these concentrations of an industrial chemical (7). (cdc.gov)
It was, of course, well understood as long ago as the fifteenth century, that airborne dusts and chemicals could bring about illness and injury, but the concentrations and durations of exposure at which this might be expected to occur were unclear (8). (cdc.gov)

Following the 1934 purge of the SA, the concentration camps were run exclusively by the SS via the Concentration Camps Inspectorate and later the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. (wikipedia.org)

The exhibition, 'Forced Journeys', includes the work of 36 artists who were held at ten different camps on the Isle of Man. (kingston.ac.uk)

Tid: 11 december 2023 14:15 till 17:00 Typ: Seminarium Plats: LUX:A127 Konflikt och motstånd arrangerar en eftermiddag med presentationer av beviljade och ännu ej inskickade projektansökningar. (lu.se)

In China during the Cultural Revolution (1966-69) millions were sent to euphemistically named "reeducation" camps, and in Cambodia after Pol Pot came to power (1976) an estimated one million civilians died in "reeducation" camps. (infoplease.com)

In April a Nazi commission decides to open a concentration camp in Oświęcim, primarily because of the excellent transport links it enjoys. (inyourpocket.com)

The head of the SS had friends in the area and would drop in to inspect the camp as he passed by. (longreads.com)

The conditions within the camps were unbearable. (worldatlas.com)
Les enceintes, les barbelés, les miradors, les baraquements, les potences, les chambres à gaz et les fours crématoires de l'ancien camp de concentration et d'extermination d'Auschwitz-Birkenau, le plus vaste du III e Reich, attestent les conditions dans lesquelles fonctionnait le génocide hitlérien. (unesco.org)
The conditions in which migrants are currently living in some European countries may well be difficult, and deserve still greater international attention, but concentration camps they certainly are not," David Harris, the head of the AJC, said in a statement. (independent.co.uk)

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