I fear that horrible experiences occurred in all death camps. Most of the death camps of the Holocaust were in southern Poland.
Poland
All camps were technically concentration camps, generally the extermination camps were called 'death camps'.
Auschwitz (taking all sections together) had the highest death toll of all- about 1.3 million. Treblinka, with about 870,000 was next.
No. Her diary was found in Amsterdam several years after her death. She was lucky to have a crust of bread to eat in the camps.
No. Most Jews were unaware of the existence and purpose of the Concentration Camps and the Death Camps.
He gassed most of them and the others he worked them to death.
They do not have foreign names in the country they are in.
The Allied army that first entered a death camp (extermination camp) was the Soviet Army, which liberated Majdanek in July, 1944. The existence of extermination camps had been known before that, however. Death Camps! Every Allied army liberated death camps. They existed in Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Most of the German camps, Buchenwald, Dachau and others were liberated by the French and Americans, while Auschwitz and Theresianstadt were liberated by the Russians. Their existence were only known since 1943, two years before their liberation.
Most of the European Jews lived in Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Hungary.
Death camps were built to kill prisoners systematically
The term death camps (in the Holocaust) refers mainly to extermination camps. Sometimes the very harshest concentration camps (Grade 3, such as Mauthausen) are also called death camps.