List of Nazi-German concentration camps

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This article is a list of Nazi-German concentration camps.

All major camps during The Holocaust. (Image can be zoomed.)

In the table below, extermination camps are marked with pink, while major concentration camps of other types are marked with blue. During World War II, extermination camps were built during a later phase of the program of annihilation. Victims' bodies were usually cremated or buried in mass graves.

It has been estimated that 15,000 extermination and concentration camps were established in the German occupied countries, not including small camps created ad hoc for the local population. [1] Most of these camps were destroyed.

The term concentration camp was first used to describe camps operated by the United Kingdom in South Africa, but the term lost some of its original meaning after the Nazi concentration camps were discovered, and has ever since been understood to refer to a place of mistreatment, starvation, forced labour, and murder.

The data in this table is mainly from Dawidowicz, Lucy S., The War Against the Jews, 1938-1945, New York:Bantam [1986] ISBN 0-5533-4302-5. For a discussion of how the number of victims is determined, see Holocaust victims and death toll. A more complete list with more than 1600 camps can be found in a formal German source.[2]


[edit] Table of Nazi-German camps

Camp Name Country (today) Camp Type Dates of use Est. prisoners Est. deaths Sub-camps Webpage
Amersfoort Netherlands Prison and transit camp Aug 1941 - Apr 1945 35,000 1,000 [2]
Arbeitsdorf Germany Labour camp 8 Apr 1942 – 11 Oct 1942 min. 600 none
Auschwitz Birkenau Poland Extermination and labour camp Apr 1940 – Jan 1945 400,000 1,100,000–1,500,000 list [3]
Banjica Serbia Concentration camp Jun 1941 – Sep 1944 min. 23,637
Bardufoss Norway Concentration camp Mar 1944 – ???? 800 250 [citation needed]
Bełżec Poland Extermination camp Mar 1942 – Jun 1943   at least 434,508 [4]
Bergen-Belsen Germany Collection point Apr 1943 – Apr 1945   70,000 2 [5]
Berlin-Marzahn Germany Early a "rest place" then labour camp for Roma July 1936 - none http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005482
Bolzano Italy Transit Jul 1944 – Apr 1945 11,116  
Bredtvet Norway Concentration camp Fall, 1941 - May, 1945 1,000 or more  ???? none
Breendonk Belgium Prison and labour camp 20 Sep 1940 – Sep 1944 min. 3532 min. 391 none [6]
Breitenau Germany "Early wild camp", then labour camp Jun 1933 – Mar 1934,
1940 – 1945
470 - 8500   [7]
Buchenwald Germany Labour camp Jul 1937 – Apr 1945 250,000 56,000 list [8]
Chełmno
(Kulmhof)
Poland Extermination camp Dec 1941 – Apr 1943,
Apr 1944 – Jan 1945
  at least 153,000 [9]
Crveni krst Serbia Concentration camp 1941 - 1945 30,000 12,300
Dachau Germany Labour camp Mar 1933 – Apr 1945 200,000  31,591 list [10]
Falstad Norway Prison camp Dec 1941 – May 1945 min. 200 none [11]
Flossenbürg Germany Labour camp May 1938 – Apr 1945 min. 100,000 30,000 list [12]
Grini Norway Prison camp 2 May 1941 – May 1945 19,788 8 Fannrem
Bardufoss
Kvænangen
Gross-Rosen Poland Labour camp; Nacht und Nebel camp Aug 1940 – Feb 1945 125,000 40,000 list [13]
KZ Herzogenbusch
(Vught)
Netherlands Prison and transit camp 1943 - Summer 1944 31,000 750 list [14]
Hinzert Germany Collective point and subcamp Jul 1940 – Mar 1945 14,000 min. 302 [15]
Janowska
(Lwów)
Ukraine Ghetto; transit, labour, & extermination camp Sep 1941 – Nov 1943   min. 40,000 none [16]
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Kaiserwald
(Mežaparks)
Latvia Labour camp 1942 – 6 Aug 1944 20,000? 16,
incl. Eleja-Meitenes
[17]
Kaufering/Landsberg Germany Labour camp Jun 1943 – Apr 1945 30,000 min.14,500 [18]
Kauen
(Kaunas)
Lithuania Ghetto and internment camp  ???? Prawienischken [19]
Klooga Estonia Labour camp Summer 1943 – 28 Sep 1944 2,400
Lager Sylt
(Alderney)
Channel Islands Labour camp Mar 1943 – Jun 1944 1,000? 460 none [20]
Langenstein-Zwieberge Germany Buchenwald subcamp camp Apr 1944 – Apr 1945 5,000 2,000
Le Vernet France Internment camp 1939 – 1944    
Majdanek
(KZ Lublin)
Poland Extermination camp Jul 1941 – Jul 1944   78,000 [21]
Malchow Germany Labour and Transit camp Winter 1943 – 8 May 1945 5,000  
Maly Trostenets Belarus Extermination camp Jul 1941 – Jun 1944   65,000 [22]
Mauthausen-Gusen Austria Labour camp Aug 1938 – May 1945 195,000 min. 95,000 list [23]
Mittelbau-Dora Germany Labour camp Sep 1943 – Apr 1945 60,000 min. 20,000 list [24]
Natzweiler-Struthof France Labour camp; Nacht und Nebel camp May 1941 – Sep 1944 40,000 25,000 list [25]
Neuengamme Germany Labour camp 13 Dec 1938 – 4 May 1945 106,000 55,000 list [26]
Niederhagen Germany Prison and labour camp Sep 1941 – early 1943 3,900 1,285 none [27]
Oranienburg Germany Collective point Mar 1933 – Jul 1934 3,000 min. 16 [28]
Osthofen Germany Collective point Mar 1933 – Jul 1934    
Płaszów Poland Labour camp Dec 1942 – Jan 1945 min. 150,000 min. 9,000 list [29]
Ravensbrück Germany Labour camp for women May 1939 – Apr 1945 150,000 min. 90,000 list [30][31]
Risiera di San Sabba
(Trieste)
Italy Police detainment camp Sep 1943 – 29 Apr 1945 25,000 5,000 [32]
Sachsenhausen Germany Labour camp Jul 1936 – Apr 1945 min. 200,000 100,000 list [33]
Sajmiste Serbia Extermination camp December 1941 – September 1944 100,000
Salaspils Latvia Labour camp Oct 1941 – Summer 1944 101,000
Sobibór Poland Extermination camp May 1942 - Oct 1943   up to 200,000 [34]
Soldau Poland Labour; Transit camp Winter 1939/40 – Jan 1945 30,000 13,000
Stutthof Poland Labour camp Sep 1939 – May 1945 110,000 65,000 list [35]
Theresienstadt
(Terezín)
Czech Republic Transit camp and Ghetto Nov 1941 – May 1945 140,000 min. 35,000 [36]
Treblinka Poland Extermination camp Jul 1942 – Nov 1943   870,000 [37]
Vaivara Estonia Concentration and transit camp 15 Sep 1943 – 29 Feb 1944 20,000 950 22 [38] [39]
Warsaw Poland Labour and extermination camp 1942 - 1944 up to 40,000 up to 200,000
Westerbork Netherlands Collective point May 1940 – Apr 1945 102,000   [40]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Concentration Camp Listing Sourced from Van Eck, Ludo Le livre des Camps. Belgium:Editions Kritak; and Gilbert, Martin Atlas of the Holocaust. New York:William Morrow 1993 ISBN 0-6881-2364-3. In this on-line site are published the names of 149 camps and 814 subcamps, organized by country.
  2. ^ Official german list : [1]
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