Concentration camps: Where were they located? How many were established? What was camp life like? etc.

A concentration camp was a prison where the many Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, disabled, Poles and Jehovah's Witnesses were sent by the Nazi regime. It is estimated that the Nazi party created and controlled 15,000 different camps which were found in several countries. These countries included Germany, France, Holland, Norway, Poland, Russia, Yugoslavia, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Most of the camps were constructed near railways which was mainly how the prisoners arrived …

…camps and liberated them. The last camp to be liberated was Stutthof in May of 1945. It wasn't until then that it was safe to say that the remaining prisoners were official survivors of the Holocaust. Bibliography: Brueggemann, Rudy "Concentration Camps" September 2005 URL: www.rudyfoto.com/ hol/thecamps.html Ferree, Chuck "Holocaust Camps" 2005 URL: "http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html" "Holocaust Timeline" 2005, Author Unknown URL: "http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/camps.htm"