I wonder if you are thinking of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.
For being in the French resistance, and helping the Jewish escape from the death camps.
yes, not many obviously. an interesting piece of trivia for you: after one escape from chelmo, the rest of the inmates were put in chains
All camps were technically concentration camps, generally the extermination camps were called 'death camps'.
Extermination camps played the key role in the Holocaust, as they enabled the Nazis to gas and cremate victims - in order words, to dispose of them systematically, quickly and "industrially". Before that the Nazis had relied on mass open air shootings and mass graves.
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.
Concentration camps were death camps. The people that were scheduled to die were concentrated into areas for easier delivery to the death chambers.
1933 Concentration camps started in 1933, the Death camps started in 1941.
6. The death camps were the ones with gas chambers (or gas vans). The six death camps in Poland were:Auschwitz-BirkenauBelzecChelmnoMajdanekSobiborTreblinkaThe link below should have your answer.
Concentration Camps Extermination Camps Labour Camps Transit Camps Death Camps.
Death camps were a simple way to do mass murders.
They were in both..