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The six camps were Chełmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz (also called Auschwitz-Birkenau). [ 29][ 30] Death camps were designed specifically for the systematic killing of people delivered en masse by the Holocaust trains. Deportees were normally murdered within a few hours of arrival at Bełżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka ...
Soviet Union, 30 April 1945. Ravensbrück ( pronounced [ʁaːvənsˈbʁʏk]) was a Nazi concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, 90 km (56 mi) north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel ). The camp memorial's estimated figure of 132,000 women who were in ...
Mordechaï Podchlebnik, Szymon Srebrnik, Szlama Ber Winer. Chełmno[ a] or Kulmhof was the first of Nazi Germany 's extermination camps and was situated 50 km (31 mi) north of Łódź, near the village of Chełmno nad Nerem. Following the invasion of Poland in 1939, Germany annexed the area into the new territory of Reichsgau Wartheland.
Sobibor (May 1942 – November 1943). Located near the village of Sobibór, approximately 80 km (50 mi) east of Lublin. [ 4] Treblinka (July 1942 – September 1943). Located near the village of Treblinka, approximately 80 kilometres (50 miles) northeast of Warsaw. [ b][ 5] Majdanek (October 1942 – July 1944).
Aufseherin ( [ˈaʊ̯fˌzeːəʁɪn], pl. Aufseherinnen) was the position title for a female guard in Nazi concentration camps. Of the 50,000 guards who served in the concentration camps, training records indicate that approximately 3,500 were women. [ 1] In 1942, the first female guards arrived at Auschwitz and Majdanek from Ravensbrück.
Between 1861 and 1865, American Civil War prison camps were operated by the Union and the Confederacy to detain over 400,000 captured soldiers. From the start of the Civil War through to 1863 a parole exchange system saw most prisoners of war swapped relatively quickly. However, from 1863 this broke down following the Confederacy's refusal to ...
Nazi concentration camps. All of the main camps except Arbeitsdorf, Herzogenbusch, Niederhagen, Kauen, Kaiserwald, and Vaivara (1937 borders). Color-coded by date of establishment as a main camp: blue for 1933–1937, gray for 1938–1939, red for 1940–1941, green for 1942, yellow for 1943–1944. From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more ...
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...