The Concentration Camp System

As you research each of the camps, take careful notes on the following items:

• Name of camp
• 3 Facts about life in these camps
• How did this camp assist Hitler in his plan for the Final Solution/How was the camp organized?
• Statistics or number of deaths in the camp
• Survivors stories of the camp

Ravensbruk:

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Ravensbruk

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Ravensbruk Time Line

Ravensbruk Experiment on Karolewska (Jewish Virtual Library)

Sobibor:

Sobibor (Poland) (Jewish Virtual Library)

Hell of Sobibor Deathcamp

Sobibor Camp History

Belzec

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Belzec

Belzec (Poland)

Belzec (Jewish Virtual Library)

Hell of Belzec Deathcamp

Treblinka

United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum: Treblinka

Treblinka (Poland)

Treblinka (Jewish Virtual Library)

Dachau

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Dachau

Dachau (Jewish Virtual Library)

Majdanek

Majdanek (Poland)

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Lublin/Majdanek Concentration Camp: Conditions

Buchenwald

Buchenwald

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Buchenwald

Terezin (Terezienstadt)

Terezin (Terezienstadt) (Jewish Virtual Library)

EXIT THOUGHT:

1. How valid were these websites that you examined today? Were they missing any information that would have been more useful to you? If you feel they were not valid, how could they be more reputable?

2. How does examining the various camps help us to further understand the Final Solution?

3. What documents or evidence did you see today that could be used to help bring the Nazi officials to justice?