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  Holocaust Museum Houston : Education [Glossary]
A large complex of three camps.  Auschwitz I was the main concentration camp; Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, was the death camp where more than 1.6 million perished; and Auschwitz III, or Buna-Monowitz, was a huge slave labor camp.
Ovens built in concentration camps to burn and dispose of the large number of bodies after murder by gassing, malnutrition, or harsh conditions.
Located near Linz, Austria, this was a notorious concentration and slave labor camp.  It was known for the cruelty of its guards and the debilitating hard labor in its quarry.
www.hmh.org /ed_glossary.asp   (998 words)

  
  Concentration camp - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
The term concentration camp was coined at this time to signify the "concentration" of a large number of people in one place, and was used to describe both the camps in South Africa and those established to support a similar anti-insurgency campaign in Cuba at roughly the same time (see below).
Though they were not extermination camps, the Boer camps were noted for their poor nutrition and bad hygiene, and the associated high mortality rates (28,000 women and children died).
About a dozen concentration camps were in operation until the early 1990s, the figure of which has been curtailed to five today due to increasing criticism of the North's perceived human rights abuses from the international community and the North's internal situation.
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /c/co/concentration_camp_1.html   (2719 words)

  
 camp concentration prisoner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
Camp Concentration" consists of the journal of Louis Sacchetti, a conscientious objector and prisoner, not...
Camp Concentration is the extraordinary tale of one such patient/prisoner.
June 1940; in November 1941, a ghetto and concentration camp for Jews was established in the Large Fortress...
www.outdoorcampingtents.com /25/camp-concentration-prisoner.html   (800 words)

  
 The Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
The concentration camp of Auschwitz is established in German-controlled Poland.
Majdanek, a combined forced labour-, concentration- and extermination camp, is liberated by Soviet troops.
The concentration camps at Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald are liberated by troops from the United States.
www.holocaust-education.dk /tidslinjer.asp   (1080 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Concentration camp 1
Look for Concentration camp 1 in Wiktionary, our sister dictionary project.
Look for Concentration camp 1 in the Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, and video.
Check for Concentration camp 1 in the deletion log, or visit its deletion vote page if it exists.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/concentration_camp_1   (905 words)

  
 Theresienstadt Terezin Holocaust
In November 1941,Czech workers were sent to transform the small garrison town of Terezín, Czechoslovakia into the Theresienstadt camp.
Theresienstadt had a first class symphony some of music created.
Theresienstadt was a magical place for the children because of the concentration of wealthy and artistic families.
www.judicial-inc.biz /Theirstein_Camp.htm   (676 words)

  
 A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust-Resisters
A woman in her seventies, while barely surviving in a concentration camp, wrote a cookbook to pass on to her daughter who had left Europe for Palestine.
Inmates in the Theresienstadt concentration camp secretly created art as a form of resistance and as a way to provide evidence of Nazi inhumanity to future generations.
Jewish resistance was concentrated in the Polish ghettos of Warsaw, Krakow, Bialystok and Vilna.
www.fcit.usf.edu /holocaust/people/resister.htm   (1551 words)

  
 Theresienstadt Concentration Camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24)
In this picture you see the Christian cemetery at this concentration camp.
The official at the gate told us the Jewish cemetery was in the town itself.
It is named, of course, after Empress Maria Theresa of Austria-Hungary who had this unusual earthenworks structure built as a fortress housing troops.
mars.vnet.wnec.edu /~grempel/tours/auschwitz/theresienstadt.html   (101 words)

  
 German historical Banknotes - Occupied Territories - War, Military and Camp Money
During the wars of the 20th century Germany frequently issued specific money for the occupied territories, the army and prisoner of war camps.
Within these occupied territories new banknotes had to be issued to ensure the money supply, provide the army with cash.
Additionally in the concentration camps of the Prisoner of War camps specific money was used to make an escape harder.
www.germannotes.com /faq_occupied.shtml   (120 words)

  
 Helga King - Palm Springs Art - PalmSprings.com
After the arrival of Adolph Hitler's Nazis in 1938, Helga taught elementary school classes for children who were no longer permitted to attend public schools.
The Theresienstadt Concentration Camp was created by the Nazis as a showcase for the benefit of international inspectors.
Helga's mother (who was the "Matron of the Ghetto Hospital for Infectious Diseases") hid the suitcase amongst her patients.
palmsprings.com /art/helgaking   (430 words)

  
 Verona Library Reference Page  Landsberger Holocaust Collection
Describes the development of the prison camps, the labor camps, and the extermination camps.
Pawel was sent to a concentration camp in 1942 and liberated by Russian soldiers in 1945.
This is the terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turned a young boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family.
www.veronalibrary.org /reference/HolocaustBookList.htm   (7063 words)

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