they were places to collect and keep undesirable sections of society.
Unfortunately, very little is known about the camp established in 1943 on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto.
Plaszow-Krakau concentration camp, or to the gas chambers.
It was originally a ghetto, but later had six separate camps in the ghetto area.Konzentrationslager (concentration camp) at Koło area (formerly a Kreigsgefangenenlager POW camp for the Polish Army soldiers captured in 1939);Vernichtungslager (extermination camp) near the Warszawa Zachodnia train station (this part remains very controversional);Gęsia Street (now: Anielewicza Street) concentration camp (formerly Arbeitserziehungslager, or "re-educational labour camp") in the former getto known as Gęsiówka;a camp for foreign Jews located on Nowolipie Street;Bonifraterska Street camp near Muranowski Square in the former ghetto;the former Gestapo prison on Pawia Street known as Pawiak.After the complete destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto in April-May 1943 the area was used as the site of a concentration camp.
The Warsaw Ghetto was destroyed at the end of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April 1943. The site (or part of it) was later used as a concentration camp, but very little is known about it. By January 1945 the Soviet Army was in Warsaw.
Before the Jews were in the concentration camp, the Nazis built a wall around their neighborhood called a ghetto. After this, the Nazis deported Jews to the camps.
Westerbork transit camp and Theresienstadt ghetto
These were located throughout Europe ~ see link below .
nope, in the same way that a bath and a swimming pool are not the same
Concentration Camp (:
Auschwitz wasn't a ghetto - it was a concentration camp. _______________ The town itself had a large population before the war and about 40% of the inhabitants were Jews.
Unfortunately, very little is known about the camp established in 1943 on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto.
Plaszow-Krakau concentration camp, or to the gas chambers.
When it was founded in 1940, 400,000 Jews were herded into the cramped ghetto. About 100,000 died in the ghetto from disease or starvation; many more were shipped off to various concentration and death camps.
Uncomfortable, they either spent their last months in a ghetto, or in a concentration camp.
Elli Wiesel was taken to the ghetto in Sighet and then deported to Auschwitz Birekanau, then marched to Buchenwald.
It was originally a ghetto, but later had six separate camps in the ghetto area.Konzentrationslager (concentration camp) at Koło area (formerly a Kreigsgefangenenlager POW camp for the Polish Army soldiers captured in 1939);Vernichtungslager (extermination camp) near the Warszawa Zachodnia train station (this part remains very controversional);Gęsia Street (now: Anielewicza Street) concentration camp (formerly Arbeitserziehungslager, or "re-educational labour camp") in the former getto known as Gęsiówka;a camp for foreign Jews located on Nowolipie Street;Bonifraterska Street camp near Muranowski Square in the former ghetto;the former Gestapo prison on Pawia Street known as Pawiak.After the complete destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto in April-May 1943 the area was used as the site of a concentration camp.
Emmanuel Alper was never sent to a concentration camp. He, his mother, and his sister were put in the ghetto in his home town. Later on, they were put in a line with thousands of other Jews and shot and murdered by the Germans in 1942.