
This will be the master project or portal for Concentration Camps. camps were liberated by the Allied and Soviet forces between 1944 and 1945. * The first major camp, Majdanek, was discovered by the advancing Soviets on July 23, 1944. * Auschwitz was liberated, also by the Soviets, on January 27, 1945; * Buchenwald by the Americans on April 11; * Bergen-Belsen by the British on April 15; * Dach...
de Jongh; Philippolis; Otterspoort; Concentration camps Collaboration is welcome! This project is designed to share information I have discovered & collated to assist others, as well as potentially verifying genealogical information I am hunting for. During my quest to locate my fathers paternal ancestry (de Jongh family) I discovered a potential link to a tiny little town in the OFS: Philipol...
==Please add the profiles of those who died from starvation.== * Please feel free to create a related project * If a project is needed for the Cause of Death portal not listed, please see: Cause of Death Projects needed??? Tags: cause of death, starvation, malnutrition, medical, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, eating disorder, celiac disease, coma, diabetes mellitus, famine, Child/ Elder/ De...
The purple triangle was a concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify Bibelforscher (Bible Student) in Nazi Germany. Over 99% of these were Jehovah's Witnesses, but a few were Adventists, Baptists, splinter groups, and pacifists. Some 12,000 Witnesses were imprisoned for varying lengths of time in prisons and concentration camps. Between 2,500 and 5,000 of them died. Hundreds were ex...
Natzweiler-Struthof was a German-run concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the Alsatian village of Natzwiller (German Natzweiler) in France, and the town of Schirmeck, about 50 km (31 m) southwest of the city of Strasbourg. Natzweiler-Struthof was the only concentration camp established by the Nazis on French territory, though there were French-run temporary camps such as ...
Barberton====People in this camp=== 2700 ===People who died in this camp=== 275 ===History of the camp=== Barberton camp was opened at the beginning of February 1901 but it grew slowly. By the end of August 1901 it only had about 2,000 inmates, small by the standards of most camps. It was situated to the south-west of the town on high ground. Both Dr Kendal Franks and the Ladies Committee were ...