When did the liberation of concentration camps start?

Answer 1

On 24 July 1944 the Soviets reached Lublin in Poland and found the destroyed, evacuated and burned out remains of Majdanek. In August they reached the abandoned camps at Sobibor and Treblinka.

Answer 2

Auschwitz: Liberated by the Soviet Army on January 27, 1945

Chelmno: Liberated by the Soviet Army on Janaury 17, 1945

Belzec: Abandoned by the Germans in January 1943

Majdanek: Liberated by the Soviet Army on July 22, 1944

Sobibor: Abandoned after a mass prisoner escape in October 1943

Treblinka: Abandoned after a mass prisoner revolt and fire in August 1943

Bergen-Belsen: Liberated by the British army on April 15, 1945

Bogdanovka: Abandoned by Germans December 1941 due to Typhus epidemic

Buchenwald: Liberated by the US Army April 14, 1945

Dachau: Liberated by the US Army on April 29, 1945

Gross-Rosen: Liberated by the Soviet Army on Feburary 14, 1945

Herzogenbuch: Liberated by the Canadian Army September 1944

Janowska: Abandoned by Germans November 1943

Jasenovac: Liberated by Yugoslav Partisans April 1945

Kaiserwald: Liberated by the Soviet Army October 13, 1944

Maly Trosenets: Liberated by the Soviet Army June 28, 1944

Mauthausen-Gusen: Liberated by US Army on May 5, 1945

Neuengamme: Liberated by the Canadian Army May 5, 1945

Alderney: Liberated by the British Army on May 16, 1945

Ravensbruck: Liberated by the Soviet Army on April 30, 1945

Sachenhausen: Liberated by the Soviet Army April 22, 1945

Sajmiste: Abandoned by Gemans September 1944

Stutthof: Liberated by the Soviet Army on May 9, 1945 (Last major camp liberated)

Theresienstadt: Liberated by the Soviet Army May 8, 1945

Uckermark: Liberated by the Soviet Army on April 30, 1945

Warsaw Ghetto: Destroyed by German after prisoner uprising in April-May, 1943

Answer 3

Majdanek (near Lublin in Poland) was liberated on 22 July 1944 by Soviet troops. Camps further east were dissolved as the Soviet forces approached.

Answer 4

The first major camp to be liberated was Majdanek (Poland) on 22 July 1944. Like all the camps in Eastern Europe it was liberated by the Soviet Army.

Answer 5

The first major camp liberated by any Allied army was Majdanek, which was liberated by Soviet forces on 22 July 1944. The next camp liberated by the Allies was Breendonk in Belgium.

Answer 6

The Russians liberated Majdanek on July 22, 1944.