Major Concentration Camps of the Holocaust
by Sherry Ewers
 
CONCENTRATION CAMP
LOCATION
TYPE OF CAMP
OPERATION
CLOSURE
PRESENT STATUS
Auschwitz-Birkenau Poland Annihilation; Forced Labor April 1940-January 1945 Liberated by USSR Camp Preserved
Belzec Poland Annihilation March 1942-June 1943 Liquidated by Germany Monument
Bergen-Belsen Germany Holding Center April 1943-April 1945 Liberated by UK Graveyard
Buchenwald Germany Forced Labor July 1937-April 1945 Liberated by USA Camp Preserved; Museum
Chelmno Poland Annihilation December 1944-April 1943; April 1944-January 1945 Liquidated by Germany Monument
Dachau Germany Forced Labor March 1933-April 1945 Liberated by USA Camp Preserved; Museum
Dora/Mittelbau Germany Forced Labor September 1943-April 1945 Liberated by USA Memorial Sculpture Plaza
Flossenburg Germany Forced Labor May 1938-April 1945 Liberated by USA Buildings; Monument
Gross-Rosen Poland Forced Labor August 1940-April 1945 Liberated by USSR Camp Preserved; Museum
Majdanek Poland Annihilation July 1941-July 1944 Liberated by USSR Camp Preserved; Monument
Mauthausen Austria Forced Labor August 1938-May 1945 Liberated by USA Buildings; Monument
Natzweiler/Struthof France Forced Labor May 1941-September 1944 Liquidated by Germany Camp Preserved
Neuengamme Germany Forced Labor June 1940-May 1945 Liberated by UK Used as Prison; Monument
Ravensbruck Germany Forced Labor May 1939-April 1945 Liberated by USSR Buildings; Monument
Sachsenhausen Germany Forced Labor July 1936-April 1945 Liberated by USSR Buildings; Monument
Sobibor Poland Annihilation May 1942-October 1943 Liquidated by Germany Monument
Stuffhof Poland Forced Labor September 1939-May 1945 Liberated by USSR Buildings; Museum
Terezin Czech Republic Holding Center Transit Ghetto November 1941-May 1945 Liberated by USSR Buildings; Monument
Treblinka Poland Annihilation July 1942-November 1943 Liquidated by Germany Monument
Westerbork Netherlands Transit Camp October 1939-April 1945 Liberated by Canada Monument
 
 
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