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51. Gouache painting of a prisoner at the Majdanek concentration camp
concentration camp in 1943. Another brother and his father were already imprisoned at Majdanek and the father ... and Tadeusz eventually perished in the camps. The war ended when Germany surrendered in May 1945
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52. Armband stenciled Judenrat worn in the Plaszow labor camp
The armband was worn by Dr. Edmund Goldenberg in a labor camp in Płaszów, Poland. ... The armband was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002 by Edmund Goldenberg.
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53. Barbed wire from the Salaspils Concentration Camp
Barbed wire from the Salaspils Concentration Camp. ... Salaspils (Concentration camp)
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54. Nazi Camps
concentration camps. The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or ... Austria in March 1938, Austrian political prisoners came into the Nazi concentration camp system ... the Nazi incarceration sites during the Holocaust as concentration camps ... The term concentration camp is used very loosely to describe places of incarceration and murder under
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55. Börgermoor Camp
cultivation. Occupying two existing barracks, the Ulmer Höh prisoners erected the “barracks camp.” Designed to ... police (Schupo) uniforms with numbers on armbands. The Börgermoor early camp came under four ... Despite some Communist–Social Democratic (KPD SPD) tensions—the camp was 80 percent Communist, and they ... “Börgermoorlied.” Anonymously composed, this first concentration camp song electrified the prisoners and SS
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56. Youth Camps
camp (Sammellager) for the “difficult or impossible to educate” youth, who had become noticed ... and the establishment of the concentration camp system. A series ... reform institutes. Later, it would be in charge of the “police youth protection camps” (polizeiliche ... camps for youths (Jugenderziehungslagern). This demand was supported in the following months by
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57. Fragment from the foundation of the Chelmno concentration camp crematoria
The crematory fragment was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by the
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58. Fragment from the foundation of the Chelmno concentration camp crematoria
The crematory fragment was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by the
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59. Fragment from the foundation of the Chelmno concentration camp crematoria
The crematory fragment was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by the
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60. Herzogenbusch Main Camp (Vught)
left the Jewish transit camp (Judendurchgangslager) at Westerbork for ... deported—and the obvious malfunctioning of the already existing camp at Amersfoort, which proved to be too ... camp, in other words, a camp under direct supervision of the Berlin offices of the SS-Business ... final responsibility over the camp—by definition in the hands of the WVHA—but was responsible for its
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61. Moringen Youth Camp
the SD Reinhard Heydrich, a concentration camp for male youths between the ages of 16 and 21 was ... protection camps (Jugendschutzlager), which were generally welcomed by the social welfare ... authorities. Formerly the site of an early Nazi men’s camp in 1933 and an early women’s camp from 1933 to 1938 ... the Moringen Jugendschutzlager was administratively and conceptually related to similar camps
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62. Concentration Camps, 1933–39
feature of the regime in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. The term concentration camp ... . The First Concentration Camps in Germany ... The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as ... of the Nazi party), the police, and local civilian authorities organized numerous detention camps to
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63. Les Milles Camp
France. One such camp was Les Milles. The French authorities rushed to transform Les Milles ... enemy alien internment camp following the declaration of war on Germany. Many of those interned in Les ... days of the camp while under the authority of French army captain Charles Goruchon, discipline was ... relatively relaxed. Gourchon allowed the religious Jewish prisoners to pray in the camp’s central courtyard
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64. Esterwegen Concentration Camp
concentration camps. It was located in the Emsland region of Prussia. The structure and administration of ... The Early Camps Detention camps in Nazi Germany were ... opponents of the new regime. There were approximately 100 early camps ... Officials at the state and local level founded the early camps. Some of them were run by the
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65. Cyprus Detention Camps
Population of the Camps In all, the British detained about 52,000 ma’apilim ... movements in the displaced persons camps of central Europe—Hashomer Hatzair, Dror ... unique demographic make-up of the Cyprus camps. Despite the diverse political movements represented in ... the camps, the internees established a joint movement structure to represent their needs before the
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66. Uckermark Youth Camp
youth protection camp (Jugendschutzlager) opened as the first concentration camp for young ... Inspectorate of Concentration Camps (IKL) in the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WHVA).1 ... -year-olds dragged felled trees to the camp, which were then cut into smaller segments. Conducted ... Himmler’s order, the camp rules forbade the beating of females, but the Zoglinge nevertheless suffered
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67. Foehrenwald Displaced Persons Camp
major displaced persons (DP) camp in the American zone of ... conditions of Foehrenwald, in comparison to other camps, were far superior: the Foehrenwald residents lived ... and the Baltic states. It was changed to a strictly Jewish DP camp on October 3, 1945, after ... Germany. It was the third largest Jewish DP camp, after Landsberg and Feldafing. The population of
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68. Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp
named Saarburg Kaserne. Initially, the camp housed both Jewish DPs and non-Jewish deportees from East ... labor. But the camp’s Jewish American commandant, Irving Heymont, insisted that the camp become solely a ... Jewish DP camp, which happened in the autumn of 1945 ... few exceptions, the people of the camp themselves appear demoralized beyond hope of rehabilitation
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69. Auschwitz Camp Complex
Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans. It was a complex of camps, including a ... camps constituted the Auschwitz camp complex: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II (Birkenau), and Auschwitz III ... the camp read Arbeit macht frei, which means "work makes one free." In actuality, the ... the camp. Some inmates worked as forced laborers inside the camp, in the kitchen or as barbers
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70. Liberation of Nazi Camps
The first major Nazi camp to be liberated was ... westward. The previous spring, the SS had evacuated most of the Majdanek prisoners and camp personnel. The ... Soviet troops approached Majdanek at the end of July, the remaining camp personnel hastily abandoned the ... journalists to inspect the camp and evidence of the horrors that had occurred there
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71. Concentration Camps, 1942–45
The incarceration of increasing numbers of people in the concentration camps assured the quantity of ... the labor supply even as the brutality of life inside the camps depleted the number of available ... to persuade camp commandants to focus their efforts on keeping the prisoners alive to serve the ... about changing the murderous culture of the camps. Evacuations and Medical Experiments
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72. Feldafing Displaced Persons Camp
American zone of occupation. The first director of the camp was Lieutenant Irving J. Smith. In ... 1946, about 4,000 Jews lived at Feldafing and by Passover 1951, 1,585 Jewish DPs remained in the camp ... The camp went over to German administration on December 1, 1951, and closed in March l953. The ... Population of Feldafing The camp was comprised of stone and wooden barracks as well as individual
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73. Cinecittà Displaced Persons Camp
persons (DPs) in Italy, and as a DP camp that housed 680 Jewish refugees in 1947. The camp was founded by ... that year, the camp reached a capacity of 1,800 Jewish and non-Jewish DPs ... Committee) in Italy met at the camp. The Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Italy (also called the ... .” One of Europe’s largest movie studios, it was converted to establish the Cinecittà DP camp. The studio
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74. Zeilsheim Displaced Persons Camp
Zeilsheim was a displaced persons (DP) camp 12 miles west of Frankfurt in the ... inhabitants of the DP camp. Though Zeilsheim was thus viewed as one of the preferable DP camps, living ... 1945, another camp, Lampertheim, was opened in the area to house the ... growing number of DPs. Life in the Camp
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75. Nazi Camp System
Camp System The Nazi camp system began as a system of repression directed against political ... Nazi camp system expanded rapidly and the purpose of the camps evolved beyond imprisonment toward ... The war brought unprecedented growth in both the number of camps and the number of prisoners. Within ... March 1942. The camp population came to include prisoners from almost every European nation. Prisoners