Whe teachers ask for 'the six extermination or death camps', they are usually looking for 1-5 and 6.
Of course, in addition, there were several 'ordinary' concentration camps.
Death camps had the facilities to commit mass murder, they also had limited barracks as they did not house many inmates (Auschwitz was the exception as it was both).
Many were sent to 'relocation camps' which turned out to be death camps.
1) Work camps, where inmates were payed meager salaries for back breaking work. 2) Standard concentration camps where Jews were worked to death. 3) Death camps where the sole purpose was to destroy as many Jews as possible as quickly as possible.
The Germans set-up many camps in occupied Poland perhaps 2,000. These included concentration and labour camps mostly for ethnic Poles. There were also ghettos and death camps most for ethnic Jews.
Many people in the death camps did not keep their faith. Of those that, did each had an individual story of what served to hold them to their faith.
6. The death camps were the ones with gas chambers (or gas vans). The six death camps in Poland were:Auschwitz-BirkenauBelzecChelmnoMajdanekSobiborTreblinkaThe link below should have your answer.
Death camps were the Nazi's way to eliminate those who did not fit their mold. In all, there were seven death camps located in Europe.
Their was 6.
Death camps were used because it was a quicker way to kill so many people aka the jews.
None, Hitler is no longer in power. His death camps were all disbanded almost seventy years ago.
Death camps had the facilities to commit mass murder, they also had limited barracks as they did not house many inmates (Auschwitz was the exception as it was both).
Many were sent to 'relocation camps' which turned out to be death camps.
630,135 from 25 major camps and 1000 smaller camps
1) Work camps, where inmates were payed meager salaries for back breaking work. 2) Standard concentration camps where Jews were worked to death. 3) Death camps where the sole purpose was to destroy as many Jews as possible as quickly as possible.
The Germans set-up many camps in occupied Poland perhaps 2,000. These included concentration and labour camps mostly for ethnic Poles. There were also ghettos and death camps most for ethnic Jews.
Many people in the death camps did not keep their faith. Of those that, did each had an individual story of what served to hold them to their faith.
In concentration camps that were not officially extermination camps, disease was the primary cause of death. However, the exact numbers are unknown.