Westerbork---
Westerbork was the main transit camp used by the Germans during their occupation of Holland to send Jews to the death camps in Poland. Between July 1942, and September 1943, approximately 110,00 Jewish people passed through the two camps. Westerbork was located near Assen, in northeastern Holland.
It was actually set up by the Dutch government before the Nazi invasion, as a refugee camp for Jews fleeing persecution in Germany. After the Nazi takeover, the Germans employed the German Jewish refugees to run their camp in an orderly, efficient manner.
Life in the camp was dominated by hope, but above all by fear; and every Monday evening a list of the week's 1,020 deportees was announced to the inmates in their sealed barracks. The next morning trains carried them to the Auschwitz or Sobibor death camps in Poland, and they always left promptly at 11 o'clock in the morning.
Auschwitz concentration camp, arrival of Hungarian...
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Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans. It was a complex of camps, including a concentration, extermination, and forced-labor camp. It was located in the town of Oswiecim near the prewar German-Polish border in Eastern Upper Silesia, an area annexed to Germany in 1939.
The first commander of the camp was Rudolph Hoss. In 1940, he was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp as commander, where he started organizing mass murder technically. Höss remained commander of Auschwitz until December 1, 1943, then he was followed by Arthur Liebehenschel as camp commander.
Auschwitz I was the main camp and the first camp established at Oswiecim. Auschwitz II (Birkenau) was the killing center at Auschwitz. Trains arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau almost daily with transports of Jews from virtually every German-occupied country of Europe. Auschwitz III (also called Buna or Monowitz) was established in Monowice to provide forced laborers for nearby...
Holocaust
When I read the title I assumed it would be much longer because the holocaust is a vast and complicated subject that must have sociology included. The title should be "three main concentration camps during the holocaust" because the persecution of Jews is never delved into, looking at it from a social point of view.
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