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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Breendonck is the only one; no sub-camps are known of. Breendonck was a "waiting" camp (Auffangslager) designed to receive Jews and political prisoners before their transfer to Germany. ___ The author, Jean Améry, was held and tortured at Breendonck before being sent to Auschwitz. In addition to being a transit camp it was also an "intensive interrogation centre". In practice, some prisoners were held indefinitely at Breendonk and were not transferred. It was liberated early in September, 1944, which made it one of the first camps liberated by the Allies.
Anyone the Germans could capture.
During the holocaust, Gleiwitz concentration camp in Gliwice, Poland, was operational between March of 1944 and January of 1945. During this time the camp held around 1,300 prisoners. It is thought that many, if not all, of these prisoners died.
Ravensbrück was an all-female camp and had some of the very worst female camp guards.
Bergen-Belsen camp in Lower Saxony near the city of Celle.
At first he was held in Sachsenhausen, then transferred to Dachau.
After Anne Frank's death, the concentration camp where she was held, Bergen-Belsen, was liberated by British troops in April 1945. The camp was later torn down and a memorial was built to honor the victims.
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where Anne Frank was held, was liberated by British forces in April 1945, a few weeks after Anne's death. The camp was overcrowded, unsanitary, and many prisoners were suffering from disease and malnutrition. The liberation brought an end to the suffering of those held in the camp, but many had already died in the weeks leading up to the liberation.
Transit camps were places to hold people until they could be shipped off to other camps such as execution or forced-labor camps. Well known transit camps include Westerbork (Netherlands) and Breendonk (Belgium).
69,920
Camp orange will be held in a place called "wrong town" but only the shortlisted people know this, like me! We are the Kopykatz!