Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Emslandlager [3] ("Emsland camps") – as they were known – were for political opponents of the Third Reich, located outside of Börgermoor, now part of the commune Surwold, not far from Papenburg. A memorial of these camps, the Dokumentations- und Informationszentrum (DIZ) Emslandlager, is located at Papenburg.
In 1941 he was captured by the Nazi army and sent to a succession of different concentration camps and ghettos. In 1942 Schagrin's parents, four sisters, and brother were all killed in the Belzec extermination camp. Though Schagrin had escaped being pushed on the cattle car headed for the camp, all the members of his family that were had been ...
There were three types of camps for Japanese and Japanese-American civilians in the United States during World War II. Civilian Assembly Centers were temporary camps, frequently located at horse tracks, where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities.
Its title is a pun on the poison gases used in many Nazi concentration camps, referencing a "gas" as slang for a fun time. In fact, there were no gas chambers at Bergen-Belsen, as it was not one of the extermination camps ; most of the around 37,000 deaths there were due to typhus or starvation.
At Harlan Concentration Camp near Hannover, U.S. Red Cross aides Polish survivors. Allied troops and able-bodied survivors bury dead. At Arnstadt Concentration Camp, German villagers are forced to exhume Polish and Russian bodies from mass graves. At Nordhausen Concentration Camp, there are piles of bodies.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
General map of deportation routes and camps. Holocaust trains were railway transports run by the Deutsche Reichsbahn and other European railways under the control of Nazi Germany and its allies, for the purpose of forcible deportation of the Jews, as well as other victims of the Holocaust, to the Nazi concentration, forced labour, and extermination camps.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!