It is where the Jews would stay and if they could not work they were killed. 6 million Jews were killed
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.
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.
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 Holocaust took place primarily in Europe during World War II, from 1941 to 1945. It occurred in Nazi-occupied territories, including concentration camps, extermination camps, and ghettos. The most infamous extermination camp, Auschwitz, was located in German-occupied Poland.
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.
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.
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.
Holocaust terms that start with the letter c:Chelmo - an extermination camp in western Polandconcentration 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 ...
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 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