What were the major concentration camps in the Holocaust?

Answer 1

I believe that would be Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Treblinka. Dachau was the oldest but never did the (excuse me for using this term) volume that these three handled. Sobibor was closed after the successful escape. But do not forget that each of the main camps had feeder camps located near them. So even though there are several well known (or should I say infamous) camps, there were many more in the system that most people do not know about. When I visited Dachau, they had a display showing how this feeder system worked, and that was the first time I had ever heard of it.

Answer

The largest camp was Auschwitz-Birkenau, established in 1940.

It's useful to distinguish between extermination (death) camps, which existed almost only for the purpose of killing, and other concentration camps.

The extermination camps were:

• Auschwitz-Birkenau (part of the Birkenau section, but often just referred to as Auschwitz)

• Majdanek (which was also the site of an 'ordinary' concentration camp)

• Chelmno (aka as Kulmhof)

• Treblinka

• Belzec

• Sobibor

All these camps were in Poland.

Maly Trostenets, in Berlarus, was also an extermination camp. Most of the other camps were 'ordinary' camps. The really large numbers were killed at the extermination (death) camps.

An 'ordinary' concentration camp - not talked about much in Western Europe - with a very high death toll was Stutthof, near Gdansk (Danzig) Poland. About 65,000 inmates persished there and at its various sub-camps. Bergen-Belsen had a death toll of about 50,000.

Answer 2

Concentration camps were camps that the Jews were sent to during the time of the Holocaust. There were four major concentration camps. Most were killed there in torturous ways, forced into physical labor, or forced into sexual slavery. Not only Jews were sent there though also gypsies, homosexuals, just about anyone who was not a Nazi.

Answer 3

1. A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, enemy aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. The term is used for facilities whose inmates are selected according to some criteria, rather than individuals who are incarcerated after due process of law fairly applied by a judiciary.
2. Camps for prisoners of war (POW camps) are not usually called concentration camps.
3. Use of the word concentration comes from the idea of concentrating a group of people who are in some way undesirable in one place, where they can be watched by those who incarcerated them. For example, in a time of insurgency, potential supporters of the insurgents are placed where they cannot provide them with supplies or information. The first camps to bear the name were set up in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, though they were not designated as concentration camps; that term was first used by the British Empire during the Boer War.
4. Before and during the Second World War Nazi Germany set up camps called concentration camps (Konzentrationslager, abbreviated KZ) which were initially intended to concentrate those considered by the regime as undesirable on ethnic or political grounds; they were treated harshly and in many cases made to work as virtual slaves. Later camps were set up which were designed simply to exterminate those consigned to them as efficiently as possible.
5. The Soviet Union under Stalin set up camps, not actually called concentration camps, whose objective was to incarcerate ethnic groups, those considered politically undesirable, and criminals. Inmates were worked as slaves, severely mistreated, executed for trivial "offences" committed while in the camp, and starved to death recklessly in huge numbers, but they do not appear to have been extermination camps as such. (Many other people were imprisoned and executed, but not as part of the camp system.)
6. The term concentration camp lost its original relatively innocent meaning when the Nazi camps were discovered, and has ever since been understood to refer to a place of mistreatment, starvation, forced labour, and murder. The expression since then has only been used in this extremely pejorative sense; no government or organization has used it to describe its own facilities, using instead terms such as internment camp, resettlement camp, detention facility, etc.
7. A concentration camp was where almost 6 million Jews were sent during ww2. Most of these death camps were placed in countries neighbouring Germany. In death camps Jews were treated horribly. Any Jews sent to the camps younger than 15 and older than 35 were sent directly from arrival to be gassed. The survivors were made to do pointless work such as move rocks or plow fields. While others would make ammunition for the soldiers.

When discussing Nazi Germany, historians use the term "concentration camp" to denote the prison and forced labor camps of the regime. The camps which were used to slaughter the victims of the Holocaust (Jews, Roma, and other targeted groups) are called "death camps", as the sole purpose of the death camp was killing - few people sent to a death camp survived even an hour or so after arriving. No useful work of any kind was done by people sent to a death camp - they were there only as long as it took to kill them. Nazi concentration camps' purpose was not the explicit extermination of its occupants, though large percentages did die in them, due to maltreatment.

Answer 4

The largest Nazi concentration camp was Auschwitz, which was also an extermination camp. The Auschwitz group of camps consisted of three camps on the main site and a further 45 smaller sub-camps. More then one million Jews were killed there. The main camp is about 37 miles west of Krakow in Poland.

The minimum serious estimate of the number of victims who perished there is 1.1 million, of whom at least 85% were Jews.
Auschwitz. So large that it was divided into 3 sub-camps.

Answer 5

Nearly all the German extermination camps were in Poland. Some of the most significant death camps were located at Auschwitz, Chelmno, Sobibor, Belzec, and Treblinka. The primary purpose of these death camps was the extermination of Jews and others.

There were also other, "ordinary" concentration camps, such as Dachau, Buchenwald, Neuengamme.

Answer 6

The largest death camp was Auschwitz (Birkenau).

Answer 7

Auschwitz.

Answer 8

Germany

Answer 9

Belson