Concentration Camps Assessment:

Responsibilities
You are responsible for researching five Nazi Concentration Camps from the
list below, making sure that your presentation answers the following
questions:
1. What is the name of your camp? Where is it located? What years were it in
operation?
2. What type of camp was it (Labour Camp, Transit/Collection Camp, POW Camp,
Camp for the Rehabilitation/Re-education of Poles, Hostage [Death] Camps,
Extermination Camps)? What is the difference?
3. Who did the camp target? What methods did Nazis use to dehumanize their
victims? Think about camp life, laws, and propaganda.
4. Describe the conditions of the concentration camps including how people
were processed into the camp system.
5. What was the daily routine of the prisoners like?
6. How many people were imprisoned in the camp? How many died? How did they
die, i.e. what methods did the camp use to kill the dead? How many survived?
7. Why were children, senior citizens, and the sick killed?
8. Describe the hierarchy of the concentration camp.
9. What experiments were performed on prisoners of the death camp?
10. What evidence of crimes against humanity did Allied forces discover when
they first entered the concentration camps?
11. Define the concept of genocide. Discuss examples of genocide over the
history of mankind to the present. Choose one example of genocide and
discuss.
LIST OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Amersfoort
Arbeitsdorf
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Banjica
Bardufoss
Beec
Bergen-Belsen
Berlin-Marzahn
Bernburg
Bogdanovka
Bolzano
Bredtvet
Breendonk
Breitenau

Buchenwald
Chemno (Kulmhof)
Crveni krst
Dachau
Drancy
Falstad
Flossenbrg
Fort de Romainville
Fort VII (Pozna)
Grini
Gross-Rosen
Herzogenbusch (Vught)
Hinzert
Janowska (Lww)
Jasenovac
Kaiserwald (Meaparks)
Kaufering/Landsberg
Kauen (Kaunas)
Klooga
Langenstein-Zwieberge
Le Vernet
Majdanek (KZ Lublin)
Malchow
Maly Trostenets
Mauthausen-Gusen
Mittelbau-Dora
Natzweiler-Struthof (Struthof)
Neuengamme
Neuengamme-Alderney concentration camps
Niederhagen
Ohrdruf
Oranienburg
Osthofen
Paszw
Ravensbrck
Risiera di San Sabba (Trieste)
Sachsenhausen
Sajmiste
Salaspils
Sobibr
Soldau
Stutthof
Theresienstadt (Terezn)
Treblinka
Vaivara
Warsaw
Westerbork