Auschwitz, the most infamous of the camps, has been maintained as a memorial.
If you hid until the war was over, you lived. If you didn't, you died.
They were turned over to the Nazis and killed or put in concentration camps
No conflict caused concentration camps during WWII. Nazi Concentration Camps pre-dated WWII, though when Germany too over more territories they built more camps.
By 1944 Nazi had 13 main concentration camps and over 500 satellite camps. The concentration camps were not just to murder people but also for free slave labor.
Concentration camps were in areas Germany and controlled, mainly Germany and Poland.
Over 100,000 people were freed from POW camps, concentration camps, and hiding places after World War 2.
The allies freed the camps in July 1944
over 9000
There where multiple concentrstion camps during the holocaust. The fisrt concentration camp was called Dachau Concentration camp. It is the only camp which operated from March 1933- May 1945 Just over 12 Years.
Over a hundred thousand but many did not survive after the liberation of the camps because they either had typhus or were dying from starvation diseases or other problems.
Concentration camps were all over, nearly every country had at least one. Therefore, they all traveled the least distance.
deathcamps and concentration camps were spead all over central and eastern Europe