• The Nazi's response to the Jewish question came with construction of Dachau, the first concentration camp. 

• Once they arrived they were inspected by doctors and sent to work camps. 

• If they were curably ill they were sent to a medical camp to be restored to health.  The Nazis wanted to save all they could for work. 

• With slave labor working in the factories it left the German men free to fight. 

• You awake to find that you are still alive and are cold and hungry.

• You are served a substance, which is called “coffee,” but it is disgusting.  You are also served a piece of bread, which is very small. The breakfast line is an opportunity for the officers to humiliate you in the way they see fit.

• You go to a central location in the camp to make sure you are accounted for.

• You go to the work area. You hope to find a tool that will allow you to work faster so that you will not be accosted by an officer. • You are served cold soup, which is almost inedible. You eat your bread or ration it for a later time, as it is scarce.

• You are brought to the central area again for the same roll call.

• As you lay in your bed, you are grateful to have survived another day.  

• Auschwitz

• Bergen-Belsen

• Buchenwald

• Dachau

• Flossenburg

• Gross-Rosen

• Mauthausen

• Neuengamme

• Sachsenhausen

• Stutthoff

• The largest camp established by the Nazis; first developed in 1940

• Included three main camps, all of which deployed incarcerated prisoners at forced labor

• The camp had a gas chamber and a crematorium.

• Nazi physician conducted medical experiments, including forced sterilization and castration.

• From 1942 to 1944, housed more than 1 million prisoners

• Prisoners were employed on farms, coal mines, stone quarries, and fisheries.

• Prisoners were tattooed with identification numbers on their left arms.

• Established in 1933; the first regular work camp established by the Nazi government

• Located 10 miles from Munich in southern Germany

• Used work camp prisoners to construct a large complex of buildings

• The camp was divided into two sections--the camp area and the crematoria area.

• Prisoners built roads, worked in gravel pits, and drained marshes.

• German physicians performed medical experiments on prisoners.

• Remained in operation for the entire period of the Third Reich

The United States Holocaust Museum, http://www.ushmm.org.

JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy, “The List of Camps”, http://www.jewishgen.org/forgottencamps/General/ListeEng.html.

Father Ryan High School’s Holocaust webpage, http://www.fatherryan.org/holocaust/workcamp/index.htm.

About.com website, “Concentration and Work Camps”, http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blmap.htm.

The Florida Center for Instructional Technology, University of South Florida, “A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust: The Camps”, http://www.fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/camps.htm.

Wikipedia, “List of Nazi-German Concentration Camps”, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nazi-German_concentration_camps