What is the name of a concentration camp during World War 2?

Answer 1

Dachau was the first (1933) and at first imprisoned opponents of the Nazis. 6 more were in Poland - Aushwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Lublin, Chelmno, Sobibor and Treblinka these began opewration in 1941/42. Though the concentration camps are always associated with the slaghter of Jews it is worth remembering that other groups such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies, homosexuals, anyone agains the Nazis including clergy were also imprisoned and systematically killed there.

Answer 2

There were hundreds across Europe. A few of the most commonly referred to are:

-Auschwitz (Also called Auschwitz-Birkenau)

-Sobibor

-Bergen-Belson

Answer 3

There were more than two - Notably Auschwitz and Dachau .

Germany:

Bergen-Belsen (probably 2 subcamps but location is unknown)

Börgermoor (no sub-camp known)

Buchenwald ( 174 subcamps and external kommandos)

Dachau (123 subcamps and external kommandos)

Dieburg (no sub-camp known)

Esterwegen (1 sub-camp)

Flossenburg (94 subcamps and external kommandos)

Gundelsheim (no sub-camp known)

Neuengamme (96 subcamps and external kommandos)

Papenburg (no sub-camp known)

Ravensbruck (31 subcamps and external kommandos)

Sachsenhausen (44 subcamps and external kommandos)

Sachsenburg (no sub-camp known)

Austria:

Mauthausen (49 subcamps and external kommandos)

Belgium:

Breendonck (no sub-camp known)

Czechoslovakia:

Theresienstadt (9 external kommandos)

Estonia:

Klooga

Vivara

Finland:

Kangasjarvi

Koveri

France:

Argeles

Brens

Drancy

Gurs

Les Milles

Le Vernet

Natzweiler-Struthof (70 camps satellites et kommandos)

Noé

Récébédou

Rieucros

Rivesaltes

Suresnes

Thill

for these camps, no sub-camp known

Work camps created by the Government of Vichy in Maroco and Algeria. Thousands of jews were sent to these camps by the French pro-nazi government of Petain:

Abadla

Ain el Ourak

Bechar

Berguent

Bogari

Bouarfa

Djelfa

Kenadsa

Meridja

Missour

Tendrara

Great Britain (*Note: Alderney in the Channel Islands was the only place in the British Isles where German concentration camps were established. In January 1942, the occupying German forces established four camps, called Helgoland, Norderney, Borkum and Sylt.)

Aurigny

Holland:

Amersfoort

Ommen

Vught

Arnhem

Breda

Eindhoven

Gilze-Rijen

's Gravenhage (The Hague)

Haaren par Tilburg

Leeuwarden

Moerdijk

Rozendaal

Sint Michielsgestel

Valkenburg par Leiden

Venlo (Luftwaffe airfield)

Westerbork (transit camp)

Italy:

Bolzano

Fossoli

Risiera di San Sabba (no sub-camp known)

Latvia:

Riga

Riga-Kaiserwald

Dundaga

Eleje-Meitenes

Jungfernhof

Lenta

Spilwe

Lithuania:

Kaunas

Aleksotaskowno

Palemonas

Pravieniskès

Volary

Norway:

Baerum

Berg

Bredtvet

Falstadt

Tromsdalen

Ulven

Poland:

Auschwitz-Birkenau - Oswiecim-Brzezinka (extermination camp - 51 subcamps and external kommandos)

Belzec (extermination camp - 1 subcamp)

Bierznow

Biesiadka

Dzierzazna & Litzmannstadt (These two camps were "Jugenverwahrlage", children camps. Hundreds of children and teenagers considered as not good enough to be "Germanized" were transfered to these places - see our article about the The "Lebensborn " - and later sent to the extermination canters)

Gross-Rosen - Rogoznica (77 subcamps and external kommandos)

Huta-Komarowska

Janowska

Krakow

Kulmhof - Chelmno (extermination camp - no sub-camp known)

Lublin (prison - no subcamp known)

Lwow (Lemberg)

Czwartaki

Lemberg

Maidanek (extermination camp - 3 subcamps)

Mielec

Pawiak (prison - no subcamp known)

Plaszow (work camp but became later subcamp of Maidanek)

Poniatowa

Pustkow (work camp - no subcamp known)

Radogosz (prison - no subcamp known)

Radom

Schmolz

Schokken

Sobibor (extermination camp - no subcamp known)

Stutthof - Sztutowo (40 subcamps and external kommandos)

Treblinka (extermination camp - no subcamp known)

Wieliczka

Zabiwoko (work camp - no subcamp known)

Zakopane

Russia: (The real number of concentration and extermination camps established in occupied Soviet Union by the Nazies is unknown. The following list contains the name of the major camps. Some of these camps were under Romanian control; e.g. Akmétchetka or Bogdanovka where 54,000 were executed between December 21th and December 31th, 1941)

Akmétchetka

Balanowka

Bar

Bisjumujsje

Bogdanovka

"Citadelle" (The real name of this camp is unknown. The camp was located near Lvov. Thousands of Russians POW were killed in this camp)

Czwartaki

Daugavpils

Domanievka

Edineti

Kielbasin (or Kelbassino)

Khorol

Lemberg

Mezjapark

Ponary

Rawa-Russkaja

Salapils

Strazdumujsje

Yanowski

Vertugen

(for all these camps, no subcamp known).

Yugoslavia:

Banjica

Brocice

Chabatz

Danica

Dakovo

Gornja reka

Gradiska

Jadovno

Jasenovac

Jastrebarsko

Kragujevac

Krapje

Kruscica

Lepoglava

Loborgrad

Sajmite

Sisak

Slano

Slavonska-Pozega

Stara-Gradiska

Tasmajdan

Zemun

Answer 4

There were many, around 30, and they were in different countries, and there were different kinds of camps- some were not much more than large prisons; some others, known as Vernichtungslager ("annihilation camps", or death camps) were basically factories that killed people. Auschwitz is probably the most famous of the death camps, but some other camps were Dachau (the first Nazi concentration camp), Treblinka (another death camp), and Bergen Belsen (which is where Anne Frank died).

Answer 5

Their were many Concentration Camps, here are some;

Auschwitz I

Birkenau (Auschwitz II)

Belzec

Bergen-Belsen

Chelmno

Dachau

Monowitz (Auschwitz III)

Sobibor

Treblinka

Warsaw

Westerbork

Answer 6

Please see the related question, which is almost the same.