Where were Jews imprisoned?

Answer 1

If you are asking about crime in general, Jews have been imprisoned in every country that has had a Jewish population; statistics show that the number of Jews in prison is small, but there are always some bad apples. Jews in prison in the USA, much like other ethnic groups, tend to have been convicted of drug crimes or of crimes related to corruption, theft, etc. Additionally, Jews have been persecuted at some time or another in almost every country where they have had any presence: historically, due to prejudice, the leaders of certain countries would blame illnesses or problems in the economy on the Jews, at which time members of the Jewish community were unjustly imprisoned. This was especially common in countries where anti-Semitism was a common aspect of the popular culture.

But if you are asking about the Holocaust, Jews were imprisoned in concentration camps in Germany during the 1930s, as Naziism took hold. The best known of these prison camps were Buchenwald and Dachau. But later, whenever the Nazis came in and occupied a country, they often rounded up the Jews and deported them to prison camps in Poland; there were six such camps used for the imprisonment and then extermination of Jews.