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View of a barrack in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. [LCID: 50794]
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Concentration camps

During the Holocaust (1933-1945), the Nazis established more than 44,000 camps and incarceration sites (including ghettos). These included concentration camps, where victims were incarcerated without legal conviction, usually in harsh or inhumane conditions. Explore more content related to Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust.

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A group of men stand together. Most are wearing hats and outerwear. Uniformed guards stand around the perimeter of the group.
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A group of leading Socialists arrives at the Kislau camp
A page from Ada Abrahamer’s diary describing her experience with SS officers
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A page from Ada Abrahamer’s diary describing her experience with SS officers
A page from Ada Abrahamer’s diary describing her journey from Płaszów to Auschwitz
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A page from Ada Abrahamer’s diary describing her journey from Płaszów to Auschwitz
A page from Ada Abrahamer’s diary describing life and love in a concentration camp
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A page from Ada Abrahamer’s diary describing life and love in a concentration camp
An elevated view of a row of long wooden buildings. Shrubbery grows up between the buildings with clear paths in the dirt. Several larger buildings and woods can be seen in the far background.
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A view of barracks in the Stutthof concentration camp.
Four male soldiers with dark skin tone stand in front of a crematorium oven. Two men stand to the left of the open oven wearing helmets with their hands on their belts. The first man to the right of the open oven is holding what appears to be an open urn and looking down. The man to the far right is wearing a helmet with his hands down at his sides.
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African American soldiers pose in the Ebensee camp
Rows of victims lay in beds of straw. One man stands in the center, helping one of them. It is difficult to tell if the people on the ground are alive or dead.
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Aiding a survivor at Dora-Mittelbau
Barracks in the quarry camp of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. [LCID: 11462]
Timeline Event
Allied Troops Encounter Natzweiler-Struthof
Uniformed prisoners stand tightly in rows while standing on the deck of a ship. Fences of barbed wire have been erected around the edges of the deck.
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An early concentration camp
Media Essay
Auschwitz
Women group together in a prisoner barracks. Some of the women are laying on the floor, while others are laying on the wooden bunk beds. All of them are wearing heavy outwear or wrapped in blankets.
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Auschwitz
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Auschwitz - ID Card/Oral History
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Auschwitz (Abridged Article) - Animated Map/Map
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Auschwitz (Abridged Article) - Photographs
A grainy black and white aerial photo of several rows of long barracks in the snow.
Timeline Event
Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp Established
View of the main entrance to the Auschwitz camp: "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work makes one free). [LCID: 0001]
Timeline Event
Auschwitz Camp Established

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