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Auschwitz/Birkenau*
Location;
 Oswiecim,
Poland
Establishment & Liberation
Dates;
 Established:
October 8,1941
 Liberation: January 27,1945
Estimation of Number
Killed;
 About
2.1 to 2.5 died in Auschwitz
Birkenau. Most died in gas
chambers.
Purpose of Camp;
 This
camp was for new arrivals,
and prisoners that were going to be
sent to labor elsewhere.
Interesting Facts;
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Was also named “Death Camp”
Was responsible for most deaths during the
Holocaust
Specialist went to go check the gas chambers in
Auschwitz Birkenau and he proved that the gas
chambers couldn’t have killed as much people as
they say , and that the doors weren’t tightly
sealed so some of the gas would escape from
the chamber.
Had more than 40 sub camps.
Bergen-Belsen*
Location;
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Between the villages called Bergen and Belsen
Establishment & Liberation Dates;
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Established: April 1943
Liberation: April 15,1945
Estimation of Number Killed;
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About 36,400 to 37,600 were killed in Bergen
Belsen.
Purpose of Camp;
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Prisoner of war camp, exchange camp for Jews.
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The famous Anne Frank died in this camp.
Was designed to hold up to 10,000 prisoners, but by
the end pf the war held up to 6 times more.
Did not begin as a death camp.
Everyone that was sent there was expected to die.
Westerbork*
Location;
 Netherlands
Establishment & Liberation Dates;
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Established: Summer of 1939
Liberated: September of 1944
Purpose of Camp;
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Worked as a transit camp for Polish Jews before they
were sent to extermination camps.
Estimation of Number Killed;
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Was responsible for 757 deaths, and 97,776
deportations to other camps.
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Germans enlarged the camp in 1942.
Was not considered and official concentration camp.
The official concentration camp of the Netherlands
was located in Vught.
Was originally set up by the Dutch government to
accommodate Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany,
until the Nazi’s conquered it.
Melk*
Location;
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Austria
Establishment & Liberation Dates;
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Established: January 11,1944
Liberated: May 5,1945
Estimation of Number Killed;
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About 10,000
Purpose of Camp;
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Provided forces labor for the different tunneling
projects in the surrounding hills
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Was exposed to passing soldiers and civilians.
Gas chamber was well camouflaged.
Average number of prisoners in Melk was about 8,000.
The commandant was Julius Ludolf, at some point it was
Streitweser held command, construction workers were under
the supervision of Kammler & Schulz, at the end of the war,
Ludolf was hung in April of 1947, and the rest of them
managed to escape.
Esterwegen*
Location;
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Emsland
Establishment & Liberation Dates;
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Established: 1933
Liberated: didn’t say.
Estimation of Number Killed;
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Not much people died at this camp because it was
only used to hold prisoners.
Purpose of Camp;
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Punishment camp for prisoners.
Interesting Facts;
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Famous German writer / camp prisoner Karl Van
Ossietzky, who was a pacifist and Nazi opponent
couldn’t be killed at this camp, because he was very
known at the time, so they had to set him free.
Very little is known about the camp.
Hundreds of victims are buried in a cemetery near by
the camp.
It wasn’t considered a concentration camp.
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http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/h/
http://auschwitz.dk/Bergenbelsen.htm
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=100
05217
www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/MelkEng.html
www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/WestEng.html
www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/EsterEng.html
www.krakow-info.com/auschwit.htm
www.foothole.com/page/94257302_wester_bork_concentration_c
amp/