They were gassed to death.
They were killed.
Extermination camps were camps were camps that held minimal inmates, but killed people on arrival. People were treated well courteously until they realised what was going to happen, then they were forced into the chambers where they would be killed.
It is where the Jews would stay and if they could not work they were killed. 6 million Jews were killed
# Killed in open air shootings - about 1.3 million # Died of general privation (for example, in ghettos) - 800,000 # Killed in extermination camps and concentration camps - 3.6-3.7 million
He sent millions of people to concentration and extermination camps where they were either worked to death or were killed in gas chambers.
The extermination camps were all in Poland after Germany invaded them. The main extermination camp was the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp near Krakow, Poland.
Presumably this means the extermination camp at Birkenau - just under a million. (this was an answer when the question read "How many Jews were killed at the extermination camp") To answer the current question: about three and a half million.
extermination camps
extermination camps
The extermination camps were run by the SS.
The aim of the Holocaust was the total annihilation of the Jews as a race.
They were deported to the extermination camps. People came from the ghettos, or later they came from thier homes.