A concentration camp is a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small are with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. Below are some concentration camps that have been kept to let people see what the Holocaust was really about.
This concentration camp is in Poland. The people of this concentration camp were forced to be laborers. Between 1.1 and 1.5 million people died in this camp. Today Auschwitz-Birkenau is a museum.
Belzec
This concentration camp is also in Poland. This was an annihilation camp. About 500,000-600,000 people died in Belzec. Today Belzec is a monument.
Bergen-Belsen
This concentration camp is in Germany. In this camp the Nazis would hold people here before they died or before they were sent to a death camp. 50,000 people died in this camp. The very famous Anne Frank died in this camp of typhus. Today Bergen-Belsen is a graveyard to remember all who died.
Dora-Mittelbau
This concentration camp is also in Germany. People were forced to be laborers in this camp. About 20,000 people died here. Today Dora-Mittelbau is now a memorial sculpture.
On the left is a picture of Anne Frank, in the middle is the Bergen-Belsen camp, the picture on the right is from the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.