Camp
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Function
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Location
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Est.
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Evacuated
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Liberated
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Est. No. Murdered
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Auschwitz
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Concentration/
Extermination
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Oswiecim, Poland (near Krakow)
|
May 26, 1940
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Jan. 18, 1945
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Jan. 27, 1945
by Soviets
|
1,100,000
|
Belzec
|
Extermination
|
Belzec, Poland
|
March 17, 1942
|
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Liquidated by Nazis
December 1942
|
600,000
|
Bergen-Belsen
|
Detention;
Concentration (After 3/44)
|
near Hanover, Germany
|
April 1943
|
|
April 15, 1945 by British
|
35,000
|
Buchenwald
|
Concentration
|
Buchenwald, Germany (near Weimar)
|
July 16, 1937
|
April 6, 1945
|
April 11, 1945
Self-Liberated; April 11, 1945
by Americans
|
|
Chelmno
|
Extermination
|
Chelmno, Poland
|
Dec. 7, 1941;
June 23, 1944
|
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Closed March 1943 (but reopened);
Liquidated by Nazis
July 1944
|
320,000
|
Dachau
|
Concentration
|
Dachau, Germany (near Munich)
|
March 22, 1933
|
April 26, 1945
|
April 29, 1945
by Americans
|
32,000
|
Dora/Mittelbau
|
Sub-camp of Buchenwald;
Concentration (After 10/44)
|
near Nordhausen, Germany
|
Aug. 27, 1943
|
April 1, 1945
|
April 9, 1945 by Americans
|
|
Drancy
|
Assembly/
Detention
|
Drancy, France (suburb of Paris)
|
August 1941
|
|
Aug. 17, 1944
by Allied Forces
|
|
Flossenbürg
|
Concentration
|
Flossenbürg, Germany (near Nuremberg)
|
May 3, 1938
|
April 20, 1945
|
April 23, 1945 by Americans
|
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Gross-Rosen
|
Sub-camp of Sachsenhausen;
Concentration (After 5/41)
|
near Wroclaw, Poland
|
August 1940
|
Feb. 13, 1945
|
May 8, 1945 by Soviets
|
40,000
|
Janowska
|
Concentration/
Extermination
|
L'viv, Ukraine
|
Sept. 1941
|
|
Liquidated by Nazis
November 1943
|
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Kaiserwald/
Riga
|
Concentration (After 3/43)
|
Meza-Park, Latvia (near Riga)
|
1942
|
July 1944
|
|
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Koldichevo
|
Concentration
|
Baranovichi, Belarus
|
Summer 1942
|
|
|
22,000
|
Majdanek
|
Concentration/
Extermination
|
Lublin, Poland
|
Feb. 16, 1943
|
July 1944
|
July 22, 1944
by Soviets
|
360,000
|
Mauthausen
|
Concentration
|
Mauthausen, Austria (near Linz)
|
Aug. 8, 1938
|
|
May 5, 1945
by Americans
|
120,000
|
Natzweiler/
Struthof
|
Concentration
|
Natzweiler, France (near Strasbourg)
|
May 1, 1941
|
Sept. 1944
|
|
12,000
|
Neuengamme
|
Sub-camp of Sachsenhausen;
Concentration (After 6/40)
|
Hamburg, Germany
|
Dec. 13, 1938
|
April 29, 1945
|
May 1945
by British
|
56,000
|
Plaszow
|
Concentration (After 1/44)
|
Krakow, Poland
|
Oct. 1942
|
Summer 1944
|
Jan. 15, 1945 by Soviets
|
8,000
|
Ravensbrück
|
Concentration
|
near Berlin, Germany
|
May 15, 1939
|
April 23, 1945
|
April 30, 1945
by Soviets
|
|
Sachsenhausen
|
Concentration
|
Berlin, Germany
|
July 1936
|
March 1945
|
April 27, 1945
by Soviets
|
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Sered
|
Concentration
|
Sered, Slovakia (near Bratislava)
|
1941/42
|
|
April 1, 1945
by Soviets
|
|
Sobibor
|
Extermination
|
Sobibor, Poland (near Lublin)
|
March 1942
|
Revolt on October 14, 1943; Liquidated by Nazis October 1943
|
Summer 1944
by Soviets
|
250,000
|
Stutthof
|
Concentration (After 1/42)
|
near Danzig, Poland
|
Sept. 2, 1939
|
Jan. 25, 1945
|
May 9, 1945
by Soviets
|
65,000
|
Theresienstadt
|
Concentration
|
Terezin, Czech Republic (near Prague)
|
Nov. 24, 1941
|
Handed over to Red Cross May 3, 1945
|
May 8, 1945
by Soviets
|
33,000
|
Treblinka
|
Extermination
|
Treblinka, Poland (near Warsaw)
|
July 23, 1942
|
Revolt on April 2, 1943; Liquidated by Nazis April 1943
|
|
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Vaivara
|
Concentration/
Transit
|
Estonia
|
Sept. 1943
|
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Closed June 28, 1944
|
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Westerbork
|
Transit
|
Westerbork, Netherlands
|
Oct. 1939
|
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April 12, 1945 camp handed over to Kurt Schlesinger
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