Concentration camps

By: Ryan and Mackenzie

Biggest camps
Auschwitz-biggest camp established
Bergen-Belsen-established in 1941, a
prisoner of war camp.
Chelmno- First Nazi extermination camp
for Jews

Auschwitz
The Auschwitz concentration camp
complex was the largest of its kind
established by the Nazi regime.
It included three main camps, all of which
deployed incarcerated prisoners at forced
labor. One of them also functioned for an
extended period as a killing center
In November 1943, the SS decreed that
Auschwitz-Burkina and AuschwitzMonowitz would become independent
concentration camps.

Bergen-belsen
German military authorities established the
Bergen-Belsen camp in 1940, in a location south
of the small towns of Bergen and Belsen, about
11 miles north of Celle, Germany. Until 1943,
Bergen-Belsen was exclusively a prisoner-of-war
(POW) camp
The Bergen-Belsen camp was composed of
numerous camps, established at various times
during its existence. There were three main
components of the camp complex: the POW
camp, the "residence camp" , and the "prisoners'
camp" .

Chelmno
Chemno extermination camp was an
extermination camp of Nazi Germany .
It was the extermination camp, opened in
1941 to kill Jews.

Map of different concentration

camps

Life in the camps

Very unsanitary, and unclean

Prisoners were made to maintain camp
Gas polluted the air inside camp
Food was rotten and unhealthy

How they were killed

Some times they would make them walk
the stairs of death
They made them bunch up in a gas room
to die then fellow prisoners would have to
drag the bodys out.
They would also burn them alive.

Anne frank
Anne frank- went into hiding for 2 years
but was found and died later on in a
concentration camp.
Died in Bergen-Belsen, of the disease '
typhus
Wrote a diary talking about her hiding

References
motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?
ModuleId=10005189
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org