US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Concentration Camps, 1933 1939
Article detailing the development and use of concentration camps in pre-World War II Germany to detain political enemies, subversives, and so-called "social deviants."
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Bergen Belsen
An article about the history of the Bergen-Belsen camp complex and the varied roles it played in the Nazi efforts to imprison a wide variety of populations throughout World War II.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Vilna
A history of the German occupation of Vilna, and the Nazi extermination of the large Jewish population there.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Belzec
A description of the Belzec concentration camp in Poland, run by the Nazis between 1941 and 1943.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Kovno
This article chronicles both the plight and the resistance of the Jews in the Lithuanian city of Kovno during World War II.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Lublin/majdanek Concentration Camp
An account of the role the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland played both in providing labor for the Nazi war effort and in the "final solution" the Nazis planned.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Concentration Camps: 1939 1942
Article summarizing the development and use of numerous concentration camps by the Nazis in the early years of World War II. The camps were used to provide forced labor, retain political prisoners, and any populations the Nazis wanted to...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Concentration Camps, 1942 1945
Article details the Nazi need for forced labor and the solution they found in the concentration camps they established. It also mentions the use of prisoners in medical experiments.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Sobibor
A description of the Nazi concentration camp at Sobibor in Poland, and of the prisoner uprising there.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Westerbork
Article about the camp at Westerbork, the Netherlands, originally created by the Dutch to intern Jewish refugees, but later used as a transit camp by the Nazis, a holding place for Jews being sent to other concentration camps.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Drancy
A description of the Nazi development and use of Drancy, a former police barracks in Paris, as a transportation camp for deporting Jews to extermination camps.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Jasenovac
Article about the concentration camps established by the Nazis in the area around Jasenovac in Croatia, and their use in eliminating political and religious opponents, as well as Jews shipped in from other places in Eastern Europe.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz Through the Lens of the Ss
A collection of photographs taken by an SS officer, Karl Hocker, who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. Use the links on the page to go to related articles and the photographs
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Camps
Extensive site created by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to explain the people involved with the Nazi concentration/death camps. Learn about who was targeted, and how those who led the camps were ultimately punished. Site provides...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Enciclopedia Del Holocausto: Mauthausen
Spanish content: From the United States Holocaust Museum this is the "Mauthausen" entry into the Spanish version of the museum's online Holocaust encyclopedia.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Deportation to Killing Centers
Text details the planned methods of moving Holocaust victims from ghettos and labor camps to extermination camps during World War II.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Liberation of Nazi Camps
Article outlining the roles of the various Allied armies, including the Russian, American, and British forces, in liberating the Nazi concentration camps in the late months of World War II.
History of American Wars
History of American Wars: Ghettos
Go in-depth studying the Ghettos of World War II. What was their origin and what did they become?
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Camps as Instruments of Racial Policy
Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust resources than anywhere else in the world. Their main objective is preserving all the stories of this time period so it is not forgotten or repeated. They have broken down the Holocaust...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Destruction and Rebirth at Bergen Belsen
Bergen Belsen was a concentration camp which became a displaced person camp after liberation. By studying this camp, we can trace the path Jewish survivors took from prisoners to generating a new life. Students will come to understand...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Main Nazi Camps and Killing Sites
This interactive map shows all the concentration camps, extermination camps, and other kill sites during the Holocaust. Click an icon to access a report on each camp. Also included is a background summary of the Final Solution, video...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: And These Are Their Names
A mass grave in Poland holds the remains of 45 victims of the Death March from Auschwitz. Yad Vashem works diligently to identify the remains and provide a proper gravestone. So far, 16 have been identified and you can read their stories...
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Sobibior, the Forgotten Revolt [Pdf]
A stunning account of the most successful revolt and escape from a Nazi concentration camp. Read about the camp,Sobibor, and how it was set up. Then find out about the plans for escape and how that was carried out. Included are maps,...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Private Tolkatchev at the Gates of Hell
You can feel the horror of the extermination camps during the Holocaust through the art of Tolkatchev. Tolkatchev was an official artist of the Red Army and saw first-hand the suffering in the concentration camps. View his artwork and...