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Who was the commander of the concentration camp Belzec?
who ran the German belzec camp
What was Bruno's father's position in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas?
he was the general that ran the concentration camp
Who ran camp buchenwald?
Like all Nazi concentration camps, it was run by the SS.
How did peter vandaan die?
peter vandaan was sent to a concentration camp where he ran away and died
Who was the Nazi concentration camp owner in Schindler's list?
The Reich owned it the SS ran it Amon Goeth was in charge of it
Who was the teacher who voluntarily accompanied school children to a concentration camp in the Holocaust?
His name was Janusz Korczak. He ran an orphanage in Warsaw and accompanied his pupils to the Treblinka Death Camp.
What camp did Elie Wiesel had run to in the snow?
Elie Wiesel and his father ran from the Auschwitz concentration camp in the snow to the Buchenwald concentration camp. They endured a harrowing journey, facing extreme cold and exhaustion, before finally reaching Buchenwald.
Who ran Auschwitz the death camp?
Rudolf Höss an SS-Obersturmbannführer (Lieutenant Colonel) was the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp (4 May 1940 to November 1943). He was replaced by Arthur Liebehenschel on December 1, 1943.
What did you call a Concentration Camp during the Holocaust?
The functions of concentration camps expanded during the Nazi period. At first, they were horrific punishment camps to deter opponents. Later the SS (which ran the camps) set itself up in the business of making money by providing slave labour for German industry, and from 1941 about 5-8 camps were used as killing centres for genocide. Please see the related question(s).A criterion often used for deciding whether a camp was a concentration or extermination camp on the one hand, or some other kind of camp on the other, was: Who ran it? Concentration camps and extermination camps were run by the SS. Other camps were run by various agencies.Please see the related questions below.
What was the life of an officer in a concentration camp?
here are some websites that have some information; the first has a list of the staff in a camp & what their offficial duties were, the second details the atrocities carried out at camps, & the third is a description of a book about the camp ss officers... http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/chainofcommand.html http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/holocamp.html http://www.landmarkmilitarybooks.com/COMMANDERS-OF-AUSCHWITZ-THE-SS-OFFICERS-WHO-RAN-THE-NAZI-CONCENTRATION-CAMP-1940-1945-pr-1817.html
When was Dachau concentration camp established?
Established in March 1933, the Dachau concentration camp was the first permanent concentration camp established by the National Socialist (Nazi) government. Heinrich Himmler, in his capacity as police chief of Munich, officially described the camp as the first concentration camp for political prisoners. It opened amid much publicity as it was intended as a deterrent to opponents of the regime. The camp was housed in a disused munitions factory. The first prisoners arrived at Dachau on 22 March 1933 and this is regarded as the opening date. Himmler gave a press conference about it at the time, and its existence was never a secret. Initially Dachau was run by the SA, not specifically by the SS. Later, Dachau became the model for all ordinary Nazi concentration camps.
What problems did people helping the Jews during the Holocaust have to face?
They had to find a place for the Jews to stay, they ran the risk of being caught by the Nazis, and if they were caught they were killed or sent to a concentration camp.
