Concentration Camps

The Major Camps

Auschwitz-Birkenau Belzec Bergen-Belsen
Buchenwald
● Poland ● Poland ● Germany
● Annihilation; ● Annihilation ● Holding Center ● Germany
Forced labor ● Over 1 year ● 2 years ● Forced Labor
camp. ● Liquidation ● Graveyard ● Under 8 years
● Over 5 years ● Monument ● Preserved as a
● Preserved as a museum
Museum

Taylor Keyes
Camp locations-
Auschwitz:
● The camp was located in Birkenau, Poland. Near the southern end
● The camp was built by Nazis Germany, after the invasion of Poland in 1936.
● The camps were divided into different work sections.

Treblinka:
● built in 1942 by Nazis Germany, and was known as a death camp
● Was one of the biggest concentration camps, was located just Northeast of Warsaw
● Arriving here, the Jews were separated into different lines based on gender, men and women.

Belzec:
● Built in 1940, was known as the first death camp built
● Was found in the southeast of Varsovia
The camps that Elie went through By

● The first camp that Elie went through was a camp called Auschwitz Birkenau,
there he was separated from his family except for his dad
● They then moved to the camp called Buna
● He and his father then had to march to a camp located in Gleiwitz
● After Gleiwitz he went Buchenwald where his father passes away
● He was then liberated when the American troops came who captured the
camp
Shoes
Every single one of these shoes was worn
by a person with a family, friends, hopes,
dreams, and emotions.

These were shoes worn by people that Top is a pile of

watched friends and family die in barbaric confiscated shoes
that once
displays of cruelty or cold indifference. belonged to
Hungarian Jews.
Bottom is a picture
There is no way to truly describe the of the shoe display
magnitude or gravity of these places, but in the Auschwitz
museum.
these shoes helped me grasp it better than
any number ever could.