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Andrew Smith

Holocaust Timeline: The Camps - 0 views

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  • Dachau , one of the first Nazi concentration camps, opened in March 1933
  • Six death or extermination camps were constructed in Poland.
  • The primary purpose of these camps was the methodical killing of millions of innocent people. The first, Chelmno, began operating in late 1941. The others began their operations in 1942.
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  • These so-called death factories were Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec , Sobibór, Lublin (also called Majdanek ), and Chelmno
  • mobile killing squads called Einsatzgruppen
Carson Hunter

What Most Germans Knew about Concentration Camps - IV - 0 views

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    This article recounts the experiences of American GI's who discovered concentration camps large and small spread through out Germany. They were so horrified and incensed by what they had seen, they rounded up German civilians, men and women, and compelled them to march through the concentration camps, past mass pit graves, and through cemeteries where the victims of the Nazi regime lay.
Andrew Smith

The first concentration camp. - 1 views

It says that Dachau was ONE of the first concentration camps. I want to know if it was or was not the actual first one. If anyone comes across the FIRST one, not one of, the actual FIRST Nazi conce...

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Michael Eppolito

Concentration Camps, 1933-1939 - 1 views

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      So in 1938 German Police were in charge of the incarceration of Jews/People.
  • After 1938, authority to incarcerate persons in a concentration camp formallly rested exclusively with the German Security Police
Michael Eppolito

America's First Freestanding Holocaust Memorial Center - Chronology of the Nazi Camp Sy... - 0 views

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    Great and detailed chronology of the camp system.
Emily Cowles

Conditions in the Nazi Concentration Camps - 0 views

  • Often, the train ride would last several days and nights, and there was little food or water available to the passengers.
  • When the train would stop occasionally, a soldier would pass a bucket of water inside the train, but the people nearest the door would drink it all.
  • Many people died during the trip because of the heat and lack of food and water.
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  • The midday meal was soup made of potato peels and beets, and dinner was another slice of bread.
  • Then it was time for breakfast, which consisted of a slice of bread and a cup of coffee made of ground-up acorns and water.
  • People in the camps were dying of starvation. There was never enough food. Some ate grass and roots to try to stay alive.
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    The Conditions in the Nazi Concentration Camps, about food, how the Jewish people get there, the train rides.
Carson Hunter

The Simon Wiesenthal Center's 36 Questions About the Holocaust - 2 views

  • Six such camps existed: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka. All were located in Poland.
  • camp is a concentration camp with special apparatus specifically designed for systematic murder.
  • A death
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    Questions and Answers about the Holocaust
Michael Eppolito

Google Image Result for http://www.ushmm.org/lcmedia/map/lc/image/eur72160.gif - 0 views

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    Here is a list of the major camps and their locations.
Felicia Wyman

The holocaust - 3 views

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    This has a lot of topics:Hitler, Victims of the holocaust: Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnessess, and Anne Frank, The concentration camps, and survivors.
Michael Eppolito

BBC NEWS | In Depth | Audio slideshow: Liberation of Belsen - 3 views

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    This is a grim first account of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Death Camp.
Michael Eppolito

Modern Israel & the Diaspora Timeline (1946-1949) - 1 views

  • 4,500 Jewish refugees sails for British-administered Palestine
  • Congress passes the Displaced Persons Act, authorizing 200,000 DPs to enter the United States in 1949 and 1950.
  • Mob attack against Jewish survivors in Kielce, Poland. Following a ritual murder accusation, a Polish mob kill more than 40 Jews and wound dozens of others. This attack sparks a second mass migration of Jews from Poland and Eastern Europe to DP camps in Germany, Austria and Italy.
Michael Eppolito

About The Holocaust - 0 views

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    Excellent and concise set of primary sources.
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