Concentration Camps
These are only a few of the many camps that existed and the stories about how they started and what went on there.
Auschwitz-Birkenau - "The Death Factory"
The Nazis established over 15,000 camps, these are some of them.
Germany:
| Bergen-Belsen (probably 2 sub-camps but location is unknown) |
| Börgermoor (no sub-camp known) |
| Buchenwald ( 174 sub-camps and external kommandos) |
| Dachau (123 sub-camps and external kommandos) |
| Dieburg (no sub-camp known) |
| Esterwegen (1 sub-camp) |
| Flossedburg (94 sub-camps and external kommandos) |
| Gundelsheim (no sub-camp known) |
| Neungamme (96 sub-camps and external kommandos) |
| Papenburg (no sub-camp known) |
| Ravensbruck (31 sub-camps and external kommandos) |
| Sachsenhausen (44 sub-camps and external kommandos) |
| Sachsenburg (no sub-camp known) |
Austria:
| Mauthausen (49 sub-camps and external kommandos) |
Belgium:
| Breendonck (no sub-camp known) |
Czechoslovakia:
| Theresienstadt (9 sub-camps) |
Estonia:
| Vivara |
Finland:
| Kangasjarvi |
| Koveri |
France:
| Argeles |
| Aurigny |
| Brens |
| Drancy |
| Gurs |
| Les Milles |
| Le Vernet |
| Natzweiler-Struthof (70 sub-camps and external kommandos) |
| Noé |
| Récébédou |
| Rieucros |
| Rivesaltes |
| Suresnes |
| Thill |
Work camps created by the Government of Vichy in Maroco and Algeria. Thousands of jews were sent to these camps by the French pro-nazi government of Petain:
| Abadla |
| Ain el Ourak |
| Bechar |
| Berguent |
| Bogari |
| Bouarfa |
| Djelfa |
| Kenadsa |
| Meridja |
| Missour |
| Tendrara |
Holland:
| Amersfoort |
| Ommen |
| Vught (12 sub-camps and external kommandos) |
| Westerbork (transit camp) |
Italy:
| Bolzano |
| Fossoli |
| Risiera di San Sabba (no sub-camp known) |
Lattvia:
| Riga |
| Riga-Kaiserwald |
| Dundaga |
| Eleje-Meitenes |
| Jungfernhof |
| Lenta |
| Spilwe |
Lithuania:
| Aleksotaskowno |
| Kaunas |
| Palemonas |
| Pravieniskès |
| Volary |
Norway:
| Baerum |
| Berg |
| Bredtvet |
| Falstadt |
| Tromsdalen |
| Ulven |
Poland:
| Auschwitz/Birkenau - Oswiecim-Brzezinka (extermination camp - 51 sub-camps) |
| Belzec (extermination camp - 1 sub-camp) |
| Bierznow |
| Biesiadka |
| Dzierzazna & Litzmannstadt (These two camps were "Jugenverwahrlage", children camps. Hundreds of children and teenagers considered as not good enough to be "Germanized" were transfered to these places - see our article about the Lebensborn - and later sent to the extermination canters) |
| Gross-Rosen - Rogoznica (77 sub-camps) |
| Huta-Komarowska |
| Janowska |
| Krakow |
| Kulmhof - Chelmno (extermination camp - no sub-camp known) |
| Lublin (prison - no sub-camp known) |
| Lwow (Lemberg) |
| Czwartaki |
| Lemberg |
| Majdanek (extermination camp - 3 sub-camps) |
| Mielec |
| Pawiak (prison - no sub-camp known) |
| Plaszow (work camp but became later sub-camp of Majdanek) |
| Poniatowa |
| Pustkow (work camp - no sub-camp known) |
| Radogosz (prison - no sub-camp known) |
| Radom |
| Schmolz |
| Schokken |
| Sobibor (extermination camp - no sub-camp known) |
| Stutthof - Sztutowo (40 sub-camps and external kommandos) |
| Treblinka (extermination camp - no sub-camp known) |
| Wieliczka |
| Zabiwoko (work camp - no sub-camp known) |
| Zakopane |
Russia: (The real number of concentration and extermination camps established in occupied Soviet Union by the Nazies is unknown. The following list contains the name of the major camps. Some of these camps were under Romanian control; e.g. Akmétchetka or Bogdanovka where 54,000 were executed between December 21th and December 31th, 1941)
| Akmétchetka |
| Balanowka |
| Bar |
| Bisjumujsje |
| Bogdanovka |
| "Citadelle" (The real name of this camp is unknown. The camp was located near Lvov. Thousands of Russians POW were killed in this camp) |
| Czwartaki |
| Daugavpils |
| Domanievka |
| Edineti |
| Kielbasin (or Kelbassino) |
| Khorol |
| Klooga |
| Lemberg |
| Mezjapark |
| Ponary |
| Rawa-Russkaja |
| Salapils |
| Strazdumujsje |
| Yanowski |
| Vertugen |
| (for all these camps, no sub-camp known) |
Yougoslavia:
| Banjica |
| Brocice |
| Banjica |
| Brocice |
| Chabatz |
| Danica |
| Dakovo |
| Gornja reka |
| Gradiska |
| Jadovno |
| Jasenovac |
| Jastrebarsko |
| Kragujevac |
| Krapje |
| Kruscica |
| Lepoglava |
| Loborgrad |
| Sajmite |
| Sisak |
| Slano |
| Slavonska-Pozega |
| Stara-Gradiska |
| Tasmajdan |
| Zemun (for all these camps, no sub-camp known) |