Death Camps in Poland
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European History [1]
Death Camps in Poland Gideon Greif We Wept Without Tears: Testamonies of Sondercommandos Press Conference March 1933 to announce the opening of the first concentration camp; camps were ?educational institutions.? Types of camps Concentration Camps Auschwitz III produced for factories Slave labor camps; real productive work Maidanek - useless Sisyphus work Soviet POW camps Transient camps Extermination camps ? Dec. 1941 ? June 23, 1944 (last Jew killed) first camp Chelmo, west of Lodz Lodz deportation began Jan. 1942 Hans Botman commander 300,000 Jews killed here Gas vans were the killing chambers not buildings Located outside main center of cities; need to be hidden yet accessible; near rail station