Concentration Camps

A Concentration Camp served many purposes such as forced labor, transit camps which served as temporary way stations and killing centers, but primarily theses camps were used for mass murder.

Concentration Camps & Where They are Located.

The Concentration Camps were established to mass murder The Jews

Major camps

Auschwitz-Bikenau: Poland, Annihilation & Forced Labor. Open April 1940- January 1945Dachau: Germany, Forced Labor. Open March 1933- April 1945Buchenwald: Germany, Forced Labor. Open July 1937- April 1945Bergen- Belsen: Germany, Holding Center. Open April 1940- April 1945Belzec: Poland, Annihilation. Open March 1942- June 1943