Music was a constant and crucial component of the everyday life in the nazi run camps said guido fackler a professor of museology at the university of wurzburg germany and an expert on. Its poison gas chambers could accommodate 2 000 at one time and 12 000 could be gassed and incinerated each day. The major camps were in german occupied poland and included auschwitz belzec chelmno majdanek sobibor and treblinka at its peak the auschwitz complex the most notorious of the sites housed 100 000 persons at its death camp auschwitz ii or birkenau.
About 1 7 million jews were murdered at sobibor and two other camps in 1941 43. Two photos out of 361 from sobibor and other camps show demjanjuk a german holocaust research centre says. Between 1942 and 1944 following the german invasion of the netherlands westerbork served as a transit camp for dutch jews before they were deported to nazi death camps in german occupied poland.
Only three months later the organization of administration and guard duties as well as the pattern of ill treatment of prisoners had. Dachau the first concentration camp was established near munich in march 1933 two months after hitler s appointment as chancellor of germany the mayor of munich at the time described the camp as a place to detain political opponents of the nazi policy. Others were murdered at the death camps as well including romani people during the romani genocide the victims of death camps were primarily killed by.
Vernichtungslager also called death camps or killing centers in central europe during the holocaust in world war ii to systematically murder about 2 7 million jews during the holocaust. Nazi germany used six extermination camps german. Including the satellite camps the total number of nazi concentration camps that existed at one point in time is at least 1 000 although these did not all exist at the same time.
Stammlager of which most had a system of satellite camps. According to the encyclopedia of camps and ghettos there were 23 main concentration camps german.
