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1) it was a concentration camp, not death camp.
2) of appx 144,000 prisoners, 33,000 died of starvation or disease there and 88,000 were shipped to death camps, primarily Auschwitz.
3) there were only 19,000 prisoners alive when the camp was liberated.
4) it was liberated may 8, 1945 by Soviet troops.
5) In February 1945, Heinrich Himmler (SS chief) allowed a transport of 1,210 mostly Dutch Jews to Switzerland. For this, 1.25million was put into Swiss banks by Jewish organizations.
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