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[25] [26] Among them, there was Sisak concentration camp, which was specially formed for children as part of Jasenovac concentration camp. [27] [28] Sisak children's concentration camp was founded on 3 August 1942 following the Kozara Offensive. [29] It was part of an assembly camp, officially named the "Refugee Transit Camp". [29]
Selection (German: Selektion) was the process of designating inmates either for murder or forced labor at a Nazi concentration camp. [ 1 ] The arrival selection was first a separation by gender, and then a separation into either fit or unfit for work, as determined by a soldier or bureaucrat or doctor after a visual inspection or perhaps a ...
Hidden children during the Holocaust faced significant trauma during and after World War II. [10] [11] Most importantly, except when the child was in hiding with at least one parent, the child had effectively lost all parental support during the war, but would be in the care of strangers.
These racial exams determined the fate of children: whether they would be killed, or sent to concentration camps, or experience other consequences. For example, after forcibly taking a child away from his or her parents, "medical exams" could be performed in secret and in disguise. [25]
The Jastrebarsko camp was then dismantled, [16] [39] although the castle continued to house about 300 sick children, many of whom remained there until the war ended. [13] Monument at the Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb dedicated to the children from Kozara who died in Ustashe concentration camps
According to the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, there were 23 main concentration camps (German: Stammlager), of which most had a system of satellite camps. [1] Including the satellite camps, the total number of Nazi concentration camps that existed at one point in time is at least a thousand, although these did not all exist at the same time.
The Theresienstadt family camp (Czech: Terezínský rodinný tábor, German: Theresienstädter Familienlager), also known as the Czech family camp, consisted of a group of Jewish inmates from the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, who were held in the BIIb section of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp from 8 September 1943 to 12 July 1944.
[59] From June 1943 until January 1945 at the concentration camps, Sachsenhausen and Natzweiler, experimentation with 'epidemic jaundice' (i.e. viral hepatitis) was conducted. Test subjects were injected with the disease in order to discover new inoculations for the condition. These tests were conducted for the benefit of the German Armed Forces.