Location of the Killing and Atrocity Centers
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Bergen-BelsenGermany: Lower Saxony, near Celle Bergen-Belsen was both a Killing Center and a Processing Center for transfers and emigration: the Processing Center helped to hide Nazi activities from the Red Cross and the Public and Press |
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DachauLocated in Germany: 20minutes from Munich to the Northwest of Munich One of the first camps: brutal and staffed by "Death Headers" |
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BuchenwaldBuchenwald was located in the central-central eastern portion of Germany. One of the earliest German camps, it was known for it's cruelty and brutality. Location north of Weimar in Thuringen, on north side of Ettersberg |
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RavensbruckA camp mostly for women in central northern Germany: Corrie Ten Boom and her sister were interred there : massive killings of women occurred during the Shoah and shortly before the end of the war. |
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NazweilerLocated on the border of France, in the Southwestern sector of Germany: Nazweiler was known for its inhumane and cruel experiments and production of fresh skeletons for Medical use. |
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NeuengammeLocated on the Elbe River, near Hamburg Germany Neuengamme was originally for punishment of political prisoners. |
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SachsenhausenAbout 52 km or 45 minutes outside of Berlin, Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp, still exists as a museum. Known for cruel medical experiments. |
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Mittelbau-Dora
Mittelbau-Dora, located near Buchenwald in central Germany Mittelbau Dora is a lesser known but significant satellite camp which used prisoners in munitions and rocketry production, but their fate was the same as those in the larger concentration camps.. |
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NeuengammeLocated on the Elbe, near Hamburg Associate with Esterwegen and 96 subcamps |
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EsterwegenA subcamp of Buchenwald Located in the "Emsland" |
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StutthofStutthof in Northern Germany had the distinction of isolation created by geography: Located on a Pennisula, the Bay of Danzig to the north ; the Vistula River to the Right, Vistula Bay to the Right, Germany below. About 22 miles out of Danzig, to the east. Now know (Danzig) as Gdansk. Info: USHMM archvies |
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MauthausenOutside of Linz, Austria, the birthplace of Hitler, it was located near the small town of Mauthausen. Mauthausen was known for its cruelty and deaths, mostly arbitrary. Part of its complex included Castle Hartheim where the mentally infirm were killed. Slave labor was rented out to surrounding community business. |
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MelkPart of the Mauthausen series of camps, Melk was the larger of the satellites. Located a short distance from Mauthausen, outside the village of Melk. |
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FlossenbergLocated in Southeastern Germany, the Flossenberg Prison became a concentration camp and killing center. The notable theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer who founded the German Evangelical Church and stood against Hitler and a compromised German Church, was put to death there. |
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Aushwitz-BirkenauLocated 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 located in Brzezinka 3km from Oswiecim. |
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TreblinkaTreblinka, 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. |
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BelzecLocated 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. |
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MajdanekLocated 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
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BrinlitzLocated in the Southern Central Southwestern area of Poland, not far from Auschwitz Brinlitz was a labor camp which used many of the "Schindlerjuden" or Schindler Jews. |
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Gross-RosenLocated in Central-South Western Poland. Prisoners used in Aktion 1005 erasure of Nazi murders. |
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Janowska
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Chelmno |
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StutthofLocated 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. |
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PLASZOWLocated 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. |
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DrancyFrance |
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Terezin (Thereisenstadt)Outside of Prague, Czechoslavakia, now the Czech Republic. Advertised as a 'Retirement Center' for Elderly deportees, many died or were deported to Auschwitz or subcamps such as Buna, or Buna-Furstenberg. |
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WesterborkIn Holland. Used as slave labor camp, mostly for women used in production efforts for nazi war effort. |
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LidicieA small village not far from Prague: it was razed and demolished by the Nazis in retailiation for Heydrich's assasination because it was rumored they aided his assassins. Residents were killed or deported. All but 8 children deported & killed: the 8 were 'germanized'. |
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Bialystok |
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ZagrebYugoslavia. |
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Located in the Barent-Kara Sea Region, near Eastern Europe, northeast of Moscow
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Tayshet-Komsomol’sk-na-Amure:Lake Baikal Region |
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: near Arkhaangel’sk |
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BABIYAR
Babiyar located xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in Russia, was the site of one of the largest mass graves left by the massive slayings of the Einsatzgruppen under Heydrich. The location of the grave was not found until xxxxx. |
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