Located in Southern Poland outside the tiny town of Oszwieczm, Aushwitz is the German name for the small town. Auschwitz developed in 3 main phases: the regular camp most are familiar with, the Women's Divsion and Birkenau mostly for men. The small town, once a haven for Jews became the site of the greatest number of deaths of innocents during the Shoah Jews from all over Poland were deported there and killed.

Birkenau (Auschwitz II) was in the town of Brzezinka 3km from Oswiecim.

Treblinka, not far from Warsaw Poland, to the central, central northeast, was the killing center to which many of the Warsaw Ghetto Jews were deported. The Nazis deceived the Warsaw Judenrat into believing it was only a labor camp, demanding groups of several thousand workers. Leading into Treblinka, was a road paved with Jewish gravestones. Eichmann described it's intial entrance point as non-descript, looking like a small country train depot.

Located in southeastern Poland in Lublin District. Near village of Belzec Poland.

Belzec was one of the least detected of the killing centers at the time: as victims departed trains, they were forced to run through a leafy forest entrance, hiding one of the most mysterious killing centers. Belzec was known for deaths by gassing and electrocution: the Nazis tried to erase all evidence before the end of the war.

Located near Lublin Poland next to Majdan Tatarski District:

suburb in the "Generalgouvernment"

Served as Concentration and killing Center for men and women, killing center for Resistance Movement & Political Prisoners/dissenters and hospital for Russian collaborators

Sobibor was located just East of Lublin Poland. It was established as part of Aktion Reinhard: the mass move to exterminate as many Jews in Poland as possible in as short a time as possible.

Near the forest of Parczew, many prisoners from the famous Escape fled there.

Located in the Southern Central Southwestern area of Poland, not far from Auschwitz. Outside of Krakow, near the tomb of Prince Krak and ruins of the German Teutonic Knights.

Brinlitz was a labor camp which used many of the "Schindlerjuden" or Schindler Jews. Most of the Lager is now built over with houses and apartments.

Located in village of Gross-Rosen, in lower Saxony, Germany. Now in Poland, called "Rpgoznica", about 35 miles from Breslau. A subcamp of Sachsenhausen, it lies about 40 miles southwest of Wroclaw in Western Poland.

Known for Mining Quarries, munitions, and larger percentage of women. Death March evacuation to Germany in 1945.

Janowska

Near the Ghetto of Lvov, in the Ukraine, Janowska camp was a system of factories of slave labor which participated in mass killings in the ravine behind the camp.

35 miles outside of Lodz, Poland , also called Kulmhof in a converted Castle.

Jews, Roma & Sinti, Poles and dissenters taken there: a Large local Church near Lodz used for detainment. Known for Monoxide gassings.

children of Lidice killed here.

Located outside of what is now Gdansk, Stutthof is surrounded on the North by the Bay in the Baltic Sea, on the west by the Vistula River and on the right by the Vistula Bay. It's pennisular setting made escape near impossible. The cruel and infamous human soap production was here, as were massive killings in the Sea and death marches.

PLASZOW

Located almost due South, near the southern border of Poland not far from Krakow and Auschwitz. The commandant, Amon Goethe, portrayed in "Schindler's List" was reknown for random sadism, in addition to the killings central to other camps. Many Schindlerjuden also came from Plaszow to Brinlitz, the more moderate concentration labor camp.

In France, outside of Paris, Drancy was a converted series of buildings and large courtyard in which the Jews of Paris and other parts of France were incarcerated until deportation to other death camps. There was little hygeine and brutal treatment: this camp included men women and children.

Terezin the ghetto and waiting station for Auschwitz and other camps, was located in Czechoslavakia, outside of Prague. Famed for concentration of Musicians, it was touted as a 'retirement community' where elderly were sent and some children.

IN Holland, Westerbork was a slave labor camp/holding center for deportation to even worse camps. Corrie Ten Boom (The Hiding Place) was interred there with her sister in the manufacture of products related to German war effort.

VUGHT-DUTCH

Now a Penitentiary, Vught was the only Dutch Camp considered part of the Lager System by the Nazis. With Westerbork, one of the two main Dutch work/concentration camps.

National Monument Camp Vught
P O Box 47 5260 AA Vught
The Netherlands

Visit address:
Lunettenlaan 600
Tel: +31 (0)73-65 66 764
Fax: +31 (0)73-65 87 068
E-mail: info@nmkampvught.nl

Northeastern Poland on the Biala River, for which it is named. Today: 350,000pop. In WWII, location of ghetto and atrocity center, in "General Gouvernment" of German-occupied Poland

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