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Holocaust - Nazi Persecution, Genocide, Concentration Camps: After Kristallnacht in 1938 even more discrimination was directed at Jews, eventually leading to confinement in ghettos. People considered inferior by the Nazis, such as Jews, Roma, and homosexuals, were sent to concentration camps.
Auschwitz, Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp and extermination camp. Located near the town of Oswiecim in southern Poland, Auschwitz was actually three camps in one: a prison camp, an extermination camp, and a slave-labor camp.
Buchenwald, one of the biggest of the Nazi concentration camps established on German soil. It stood on a wooded hill about 4.5 miles northwest of Weimar, Germany. Set up in 1937, it initially housed political prisoners and other targeted groups, including Jews.
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination ...
Research and education are more important than ever to inform today’s society about the Holocaust, concentration camps, forced labor and the consequences of Nazi crimes. The Arolsen Archives are building up a comprehensive online archive so that people all over the world can access the documents and obtain information.
The fifth episode of the docu-series explores the pivotal moment when Nazi leaders started building extermination camps. Officers had been shooting Jews to death, and drinking a lot while doing...
The camp was the dream-child of Heinrich Himmler, a key architect of Hitler’s genocidal programmes. Despite Himmler’s intentions, Rajsko produced no rubber, and was liquidated by the Nazis in...
