Types of Camps
What camp imprisoned, labored, and held prisoners to await their murder?
Concentration Camps
What were prisoners housed in at concentration camps? (2 answers)
Wooden barracks & Brick barracks
When was extermination camps created?
In 1941
What was the largest concentration camp?
Auschwitz-Birkenau
What camp was made specifically to murder their prisoners?
Extermination Camps
How many prisoners were fitted into each barrack?
700 people
What was the purpose of extermination camps?
To efficiently kill off prisoners at one time
How many acres was the largest concentration camp?
472 acres
What camp holds prisoners and forces them to do metal work until they were ready to be sent to other camps?
Transit Camps
What were prisoners not given at sanitary/cleaning facilities?(2 things)
Hygiene products & Toilet paper
What groups of people do they murder? (5 answers)
Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, and alleged mental defectives
How were gas vans use to kill Jews?
They were tightly sealed off and gassed which suffocated them to death
How many people were killed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp?
1.1 million people
Work Camps
What did no cleaning water lead too?
Infections & Diseases
What were the six major extermination camps? (6 answers)
Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka
What is the “Final Solution”?
The mass murder of European Jews
What was the 2nd camp with the most killed people and how many?
Treblinka & 850,000 people
What is a concentration camp?
A place where Jews or those who were considered not fitting in were imprisoned and forced to do labor or await for there mass execution.
How many calories were fed to prisoners daily?
1000 calories
What were ALL the ways prisoners were executed? (5 answers)
Gas vans, getting shot, starvation, and overworking
What type of camp is the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp? (2 types of camps)
Concentration vamp & extermination camp(death camp)