This is where the Nazis would burn the people who have died. They called this cremating. "One of the officers said that he now believes that dachau was a death camp."
Nazi concentration camps
Prisoners lined up for roll call at Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
"We were constantly standing there while they call our names making sure we didn't escape, like we ever could. It's like the feeling of waiting to be executed or worked to death"
The Holocaust scholars draw a distinction between
concentration camps and extermination camps, which were
established by the Nazis for the high number of mass murders of the Jewish and concentration camp populations. They kept alot of people imprisioned here until they died. It was a slow death for most of them, from starvation, or some might have been even shot in the head that were Jews.
Overall death toll:
Over 6,000,000
concentration camps and extermination camps, which were
established by the Nazis for the high number of mass murders of the Jewish and concentration camp populations. They kept alot of people imprisioned here until they died. It was a slow death for most of them, from starvation, or some might have been even shot in the head that were Jews.
Overall death toll:
Over 6,000,000
Map of all concentration camps in europe
Above is a picture of all the concentration camps during World War 2. "The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him."