List of Nazi concentration camps
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This article lists some of concentration camps set up by the Third Reich, and includes camps such as Dachau which was set up at first to help the Nazis keep power and control political opponents, and other camps such as Auschwitz which was set up to help fulfil the Final Solution. The German Ministry of Justice, in 1967, named about 1200 camps and subcamps in countries occupied by Nazi Germany,[1] while the Jewish Virtual Library writes "It is estimated that the Nazis established 15,000 camps in the occupied countries."[2] Most of these camps were destroyed.
Table of selected Nazi concentration camps
changeAccording to the table below, an estimated 7,991,460 people lost their lives in the camps.
Camp Name | Country (today) | Camp Type | Dates of use | Est. prisoners | Est. deaths | Sub-camps | Webpage |
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Alderney | Alderney, Channel Islands | Labour camp | Jan 1942 – Jun 1944 | 6,000 | 700 | Lager Borkum, Lager Helgoland, Lager Norderney, Lager Sylt | [1] |
Amersfoort | Netherlands | Transit camp and prison | Aug 1941 - Apr 1945 | 35,000 | 1,000 | [2] | |
Arbeitsdorf | Germany | Labour camp | 8 Apr 1942 – 11 Oct 1942 | 600 min. | none | ||
Auschwitz-Birkenau | Poland | Extermination and Labour camp | Apr 1940 – Jan 1945 | around 1.3 million | 1,100,000 min.[3] out of 4,000,000 rec. arrivals [4] | list of 48 sub-camps with description at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum [5] | [3][4][5][6] |
Banjica | Serbia | Concentration camp | Jun 1941 – Sep 1944 | 23,637 min. | |||
Bardufoss | Norway | Concentration camp | Mar 1944 – ???? | 800 | 250 | ||
Bełżec | Poland | Extermination camp | Oct 1941 – Jun 1943 | 434,508 min. | [3] | ||
Bergen-Belsen | Germany | Collection point | Apr 1943 – Apr 1945 | 70,000 | 2 | [4] | |
Berlin-Marzahn | Germany | Early a "rest place" then Labour camp for Roma | July 1936 - | none | [5] | ||
Bernburg | Germany | Collection point | Apr 1942 – Apr 1945 | 100,000 | 2 | ||
Bogdanovka | Moldova | Concentration camp | 1941 | 54,000 | 40,000 | ||
Bolzano | Italy | Transit | Jul 1944 – Apr 1945 | 11,116 | |||
Bredtvet | Norway | Concentration camp | Fall, 1941 - May, 1945 | 1,000 min. | ???? | none | |
Breendonk | Belgium | Prison and Labour camp | 20 Sep 1940 – Sep 1944 | 3532 min. | 391 min. | none | [6] |
Breitenau | Germany | "Early wild camp", then Labour camp | Jun 1933 – Mar 1934, 1940–1945 |
470 - 8500 | [7] | ||
Buchenwald | Germany | Labour camp | Jul 1937 – Apr 1945 | 250,000 | 56,000 | list | [8] |
Chełmno (Kulmhof) |
Poland | Extermination camp | Dec 1941 – Apr 1943, Apr 1944 – Jan 1945 |
152,000 min. | [9] | ||
Crveni krst | Serbia | Concentration camp | 1941–1945 | 30,000 | 12,300 | ||
Dachau | Germany | Labour camp | Mar 1933 – Apr 1945 | 200,000 | 31,591 | list | [10] Archived 2007-02-05 at the Wayback Machine |
Drancy | France | Internment camp, transit | 20 Aug 1941 – 17 Aug 1944 | 70,000 | Three of five Paris annexes: Austerlitz, Lévitan and Bassano camps | [11] | |
Falstad | Norway | Prison camp | Dec 1941 – May 1945 | 200 min. | none | [12] | |
Flossenbürg | Germany | Labour camp | May 1938 – Apr 1945 | 100,000 min. | 30,000 | list | [13] |
Fort de Romainville | France | Prison and transit camp | 1940 – Aug 1944 | 8,100 min. | 200 min. | none | [14] Archived 2019-07-23 at the Wayback Machine |
Fort VII (Poznań) | Poland | Concentration, detention, transit | Oct 1939 – Apr 1944 | 18,000 min. | 4,500 min. | [15] Archived 2014-04-26 at the Wayback Machine | |
Fossoli | Italy | Prison and transit camp | 5 Dec 1943 - Nov 1944 | none | |||
Grini | Norway | Prison camp | 2 May 1941 – May 1945 | 19,788 | 8 | Fannrem Bardufoss Kvænangen |
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Gross-Rosen | Poland | Labour camp; Nacht und Nebel camp | Aug 1940 – Feb 1945 | 125,000 | 40,000 | list | [16] |
Herzogenbusch (Vught) |
Netherlands | Concentration camp | 1943 - Summer 1944 | 31,000 | 750 | list | [17] |
Hinzert | Germany | Collection point and subcamp | Jul 1940 – Mar 1945 | 14,000 | 302 min. | [18] Archived 2021-04-28 at the Wayback Machine | |
Janowska (Lwów) |
Ukraine | Ghetto; transit, Labour, & extermination camp | Sep 1941 – Nov 1943 | 40,000 min. | none | [19] (see "A-Z") | |
Jasenovac concentration camp | Croatia | Extermination camp for Jews, Serbs Roma, Croats, and Bosniaks[7] | 1941–1944 | 100,000 min.[8] | 100,000 min.[8] | Stara Gradiška concentration camp, Sisak children's concentration camp, Donja Gradina, Jasenovac main | [20] |
Kaiserwald (Mežaparks) |
Latvia | Labour camp | 1942 – 6 Aug 1944 | 20,000? | 16, incl. Eleja-Meitenes |
[21] | |
Kaufering/Landsberg | Germany | Labour camp | Jun 1943 – Apr 1945 | 30,000 | 14,500 min. | [22] Archived 2016-04-01 at the Wayback Machine | |
Kauen (Kaunas) |
Lithuania | Ghetto and internment camp | ???? | Prawienischken | [23] Archived 2004-12-08 at the Wayback Machine | ||
Klooga | Estonia | Labour camp | Summer 1943 – 28 Sep 1944 | 2,400 | |||
Langenstein-Zwieberge | Germany | Buchenwald subcamp | Apr 1944 – Apr 1945 | 5,000 | 2,000 | ||
Le Vernet | France | Internment camp | 1939–1944 | ||||
Majdanek (KZ Lublin) |
Poland | Extermination camp | Jul 1941 – Jul 1944 | 78,000 | [24] | ||
Malchow | Germany | Labour and Transit camp | Winter 1943 – 8 May 1945 | 5,000 | |||
Maly Trostenets | Belarus | Extermination camp | Jul 1941 – Jun 1944 | 65,000 | [25] | ||
Mauthausen-Gusen | Austria | Concentration camp | Aug 1938 – May 1945 | 195,000 | 95,000 min. | list | [26] |
Mittelbau-Dora | Germany | Concentration camp | Sep 1943 – Apr 1945 | 60,000 | 20,000 min. | list | [27] |
Natzweiler-Struthof (Struthof) | France | Concentration camp; Nacht und Nebel camp; extermination camp | May 1941 – Sep 1944 | 40,000 | 25,000 | list | [28] |
Neuengamme | Germany | Concentration camp | 13 Dec 1938 – 4 May 1945 | 106,000 | 42,900+ | list | [29] |
Niederhagen | Germany | Prison and Labour camp | Sep 1941 – early 1943 | 3,900 | 1,285 | none | [30] Archived 2004-12-16 at the Wayback Machine |
Oberer Kuhberg | Germany | Concentration camp | Nov 1933 – 1935 | 0 | Former infantry base Gleißelstetten | [31] Archived 2010-11-25 at the Wayback Machine | |
Ohrdruf | Germany | Labour and concentration camp; Buchenwald subcamp | Nov 1944 - Apr 1945 | 11,700 | [32] | ||
Oranienburg | Germany | Collective point | Mar 1933 – Jul 1934 | 3,000 | 16 min. | [33] | |
Osthofen | Germany | Collective point | Mar 1933 – Jul 1934 | ||||
Płaszów | Poland | Labour camp | Dec 1942 – Jan 1945 | 150,000 min. | 9,000 min. | list | [34] Archived 2008-02-16 at the Wayback Machine |
Ravensbrück | Germany | Concentration camp for women | May 1939 – Apr 1945 | 150,000 | 90,000 min. | list | [35][36] Archived 2021-03-08 at the Wayback Machine |
Risiera di San Sabba (Trieste) |
Italy | Police detainment camp | Sep 1943 – 29 Apr 1945 | 25,000 | 5,000 | [37] | |
Sachsenhausen | Germany | Concentration camp | Jul 1936 – Apr 1945 | 200,000 min. | 100,000 | list | [38] |
Sajmiste | Serbia | Extermination camp | Dec 1941 – Sep 1944 | 100,000 | |||
Salaspils | Latvia | Labour camp | Oct 1941 – Summer 1944 | 2,000 | [39] Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine | ||
Sobibór | Poland | Extermination camp | May 1942 - Oct 1943 | 200,000 max. | [40] | ||
Soldau | Poland | Concentration camp; Transit camp | Winter 1939/40 – Jan 1945 | 30,000 | 13,000 | ||
Stutthof | Poland | Concentration camp | Sep 1939 – May 1945 | 110,000 | 65,000 | list | [41] |
Theresienstadt (Terezín) |
Czech Republic | Transit camp and Ghetto | Nov 1941 – May 1945 | 140,000 | 35,000 min. | [42] | |
Treblinka | Poland | Extermination camp | Jul 1942 – Nov 1943 | 870,000 | [43] | ||
Vaivara | Estonia | Concentration and transit camp | 15 Sep 1943 – 29 Feb 1944 | 20,000 | 950 | 22 | [44] [45] |
Warsaw concentration camp | Poland | Concentration camp | 1943–1944 | 400,000 max. | 20,000 max. | ||
Westerbork | Netherlands | Transit camp | May 1940 – Apr 1945 | 102,000 |
References
change- ↑ "Anlage 6. DV-BEG - Einzelnorm".
- ↑ Concentration Camp Listing Sourced from Van Eck, Ludo Le livre des Camps. Belgium:Editions Kritak; and Gilbert, Martin Atlas of the Holocaust. New York:William Morrow 1993 ISBN 0-6881-2364-3. In this on-line site are published the names of 149 camps and 814 subcamps, organized by country.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Franciszek Piper, Dead victims of KL Auschwitz per nationality and/or profile of deportees ("Liczba uśmierconych w KL Auschwitz ogółem wg narodowości lub kategorii deportowanych"). Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland, 1999-2010 (in Polish)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Franciszek Piper, Victims of KL Auschwitz ("Liczba ofiar KL Auschwitz"). Archived 2010-09-25 at the Wayback Machine The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland, 1999-2010 (in Polish)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 List of Subcamps of KL Auschwitz (Podobozy KL Auschwitz). Archived 2011-10-12 at the Wayback Machine The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland (Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oświęcimiu), 1999-2010 (in Polish)
- ↑ Franciszek Piper, Construction and Expansion of KL Auschwitz ("Budowa i rozbudowa KL Auschwitz"). Archived 2010-09-25 at the Wayback Machine The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland (Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oświęcimiu), 1999-2010 (in Polish)
- ↑ "Jasenovac Camp". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Stevan K. Pavlowitch (2008). Hitler's new disorder: the Second World War in Yugoslavia. Columbia University Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0231700504.