There were six extermination (or 'death') camps in the Holocaust which were located at: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka.
That is the 'accepted list', but the role of Majdanek is not clear and there was also an extermination camp at Maly Trostinets near Minsk.
The extermination camps were: 1. Chelmno (Kulmhof) 2. The Birkenau section of Auschwitz 3. Treblinka 4. Majdanek (part only) 5. Sobibor 6. Belzec Note that many slave labour camps were in effect death camps.
around 8 million families were sent to concentration camps in the holocaust and in which few made it out alive. ____ The number of individuals sent to concentration and extermination camps was lower than this ...
The SS ran the concentration camps and extermination camps and organized the holocaust.
The key disinction is between 'ordinary' concentration camps (such as Dachau or Buchenwald) and extermination camps such as Treblinka and Sobibor. The sole purpose of extermination camps was to kill. Note that Auschwitz and Majdanek combined both kinds of camps.
During the Holocaust the Jews were first sent to ghettos and from there to extermination camps and concentration camps.After the Holocaust many Jews were unable to go home and had to live in camps for Displaced Persons until they could find somewhere permanent.
It is where the Jews would stay and if they could not work they were killed. 6 million Jews were killed
The camps used for the systematic killing of the Jews and gypsies were extermination camps. Please see the related question.
The biggest extermination camps were in Poland.
around 8 million families were sent to concentration camps in the holocaust and in which few made it out alive. ____ The number of individuals sent to concentration and extermination camps was lower than this ...
They went to displaced persons camps and from there tried to build a new life.
The SS ran the concentration camps and extermination camps and organized the holocaust.
The key disinction is between 'ordinary' concentration camps (such as Dachau or Buchenwald) and extermination camps such as Treblinka and Sobibor. The sole purpose of extermination camps was to kill. Note that Auschwitz and Majdanek combined both kinds of camps.
The aim of the Holocaust was the total annihilation of the Jews as a race.
Pretty simple. Extermination camps is really another term for death camps. It is where people meet their death by being asphyxiated with gas.
Holocaust terms that start with the letter c:Chelmo - an extermination camp in western Polandconcentration camps
One inspiration for these camps was, believe it or not, the systematic extermination of Native Americans from America by the Whites who colonized it.
During the Holocaust the Jews were first sent to ghettos and from there to extermination camps and concentration camps.After the Holocaust many Jews were unable to go home and had to live in camps for Displaced Persons until they could find somewhere permanent.
During the holocaust their was onlya small type of camps Concentration camps - Camps where is to just keep people and torturing them to concentrate them. Extermination camps - Camps where it only main purpose to to Exterminate people asmuch as possible Death camps - Same as a Extermination camp but only Kills people less frequently Labour camps - A camp which is only main purpose is to use prisoners as slave labour workers POW camps - Camps for Prisoners of War