When were Jews sent to the Concentration Camps?

Answer 1

* The first concentration camps were set up in 1933, mainly for political opponents of the Nazi regime. These early inmates included some Jews, sent there as opponents, not as Jews. * 11 November 1938 onwards - in the aftermath of the 'Night of the Broken Glass' about 30,000 German and Austrian Jews were sent to concentration camps, and about 2,000 died by Chritmas 1938. The main idea was to make life hell for them and bully them in leaving Germany. * November 1939 onwards - Jews in Nazi occupied Poland were forced into ghettos. * 7 December 1941 the first extermination camp - Chelmno - becomes operational. Mass gassings of Jews from western Poland. The roundups and transports began a few days earlier. Deportations from Germany to the killing fields of Latvia and Belarus and to the Warsaw Ghetto started on 15 October 1941. At that stage there were no extermination camps.

Answer 2

The first large-scale deportations of Jews to camps of various kinds started in October 1941. At the time there were no camps with large facilities for gassings, so they were sent to places like Riga in Latvia where they were shot. It became a vast killing field for German Jews. Some were sent to Theriesenstadt, others to Maly Trostenets and some were dumped in ghettos that had been established in 1939-40 in Poland. Large scale gassings started in December 1941 (at Chelmno). Obviously, ever since the Nazis came to power in 1933, some Jews had been sent to concentrations camps, but usually as opponents of the Nazi regime and not simply because they were Jewish. In Nazi occupied Poland, Jews had been crammed into ghettos since November 1939 where they had to live on grossly insufficient food ...

Answer 3

Jews were putted into Concentration Camps since 1933, when Adolf Hitler come to power.