nope, in the same way that a bath and a swimming pool are not the same
Westerbork transit camp and Theresienstadt ghetto
they were places to collect and keep undesirable sections of society.
These were located throughout Europe ~ see link below .
Concentration Camp (:
Auschwitz wasn't a ghetto - it was a concentration camp. _______________ The town itself had a large population before the war and about 40% of the inhabitants were Jews.
Unfortunately, very little is known about the camp established in 1943 on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto.
Plaszow-Krakau concentration camp, or to the gas chambers.
It was originally a ghetto, but later had six separate camps in the ghetto area.Konzentrationslager (concentration camp) at Koło area (formerly a Kreigsgefangenenlager POW camp for the Polish Army soldiers captured in 1939);Vernichtungslager (extermination camp) near the Warszawa Zachodnia train station (this part remains very controversional);Gęsia Street (now: Anielewicza Street) concentration camp (formerly Arbeitserziehungslager, or "re-educational labour camp") in the former getto known as Gęsiówka;a camp for foreign Jews located on Nowolipie Street;Bonifraterska Street camp near Muranowski Square in the former ghetto;the former Gestapo prison on Pawia Street known as Pawiak.After the complete destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto in April-May 1943 the area was used as the site of a concentration camp.
When it was founded in 1940, 400,000 Jews were herded into the cramped ghetto. About 100,000 died in the ghetto from disease or starvation; many more were shipped off to various concentration and death camps.
Uncomfortable, they either spent their last months in a ghetto, or in a concentration camp.
Elli Wiesel was taken to the ghetto in Sighet and then deported to Auschwitz Birekanau, then marched to Buchenwald.
Emmanuel Alper was never sent to a concentration camp. He, his mother, and his sister were put in the ghetto in his home town. Later on, they were put in a line with thousands of other Jews and shot and murdered by the Germans in 1942.