Concentration Camps: | |||||||||||
List of Major Camps | |||||||||||
Concentration Camps: Table of Contents | Extermination Camps | Major Sub-Camps | |||||||||||
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CAMP | LOCALE | TYPE | USAGE | CLOSURE | PRESENT | ||||||
Auschwitz-Birkenau | Poland | Annihilation; | April 1940- | Liberation | Preserved (Museum) | ||||||
Forced Labor | Jan-45 | (USSR) | |||||||||
Belzec | Poland | Annihilation | March 1942- | Liquidation | Monument | ||||||
Jun-43 | |||||||||||
Bergen-Belsen | Germany | Holding Center | April 1943- | Liberation | Graveyard | ||||||
Apr-45 | (UK) | ||||||||||
Buchenwald | Germany | Forced Labor | July 1937- | Liberation | Preserved (Museum) | ||||||
Apr-45 | (USA) | ||||||||||
Chelmno | Poland | Annihilation | December 1944- | Liquidation | Monument | ||||||
April 1943; | |||||||||||
April 1944- | |||||||||||
Jan-45 | |||||||||||
Dachau | Germany | Forced Labor | March 1933- | Liberation | Preserved (Museum) | ||||||
Apr-45 | (USA) | ||||||||||
Dora-Mittelbau | Germany | Forced Labor | September 1943- | Liberation | Memorial Sculpture | ||||||
Apr-45 | (USA) | ||||||||||
Flossenburg | Germany | Forced Labor | May 1938- | Liberation | Monument | ||||||
Apr-45 | (USA) | ||||||||||
Gross-Rosen | Poland | Forced Labor | August 1940- | Liberation | Preserved (Museum) | ||||||
Feb-45 | (USSR) | ||||||||||
Janowska | Ukraine | Annihilation; | September 1941- | Liquidation | Not Maintained | ||||||
Forced Labor | Nov-43 | ||||||||||
Kaiserwald | Latvia | Forced Labor | March 1943- | Liquidation | Not Maintained | ||||||
Sep-44 | |||||||||||
Majdanek | Poland | Annihilation | July 1941- | Liberation | Preserved (Museum) | ||||||
Jul-44 | (USSR) | ||||||||||
Mauthausen | Austria | Forced Labor | August 1938- | Liberation | Monument | ||||||
May-45 | (USA) | ||||||||||
Natzweiler-Struthof | France | Forced Labor | May 1941- | Liquidation | Preserved | ||||||
Sep-44 | |||||||||||
Neuengamme | Germany | Forced Labor | June 1940- | Liberation | Monument (Prison) | ||||||
May-45 | (UK) | ||||||||||
Oranienburg | Germany | Holding Center | March 1933- | Liquidation | Not Maintained | ||||||
Mar-35 | |||||||||||
Plaszow | Poland | Forced Labor | December 1942- | Liquidation | Not Maintained | ||||||
Jan-45 | |||||||||||
Ravensbruck | Germany | Forced Labor | May 1939- | Liberation | Monument | ||||||
Apr-45 | (USSR) | ||||||||||
Sachsenhausen | Germany | Forced Labor | July 1936- | Liberation | Preserved (Museum) | ||||||
Apr-45 | (USSR) | ||||||||||
Sobibor | Poland | Annihilation | May 1942- | Liquidation | Monument | ||||||
Oct-43 | |||||||||||
Stutthof | Poland | Forced Labor | September 1939- | Liberation | Preserved (Museum) | ||||||
May-45 | (USSR) | ||||||||||
Terezin | Czech Republic | Holding Center/Transit | November 1941- | Liberation | Monument | ||||||
May-45 | (USSR) | ||||||||||
Treblinka | Poland | Annihilation | July 1942- | Liquidation | Monument | ||||||
Nov-43 | |||||||||||
Westerbork | Netherlands | Transit | October 1939- | Liberation | Monument | ||||||
Apr-45 | (Canada) | ||||||||||
Sources: The Simon Wiesenthal Center |