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Sobibor
An extermination camp in eastern Poland not far from Lublin, where approximately 250,000 Jews were killed from its opening in May 1942, until it was closed after the prisoners revolted on 14 October 1 [..]
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War Refugee Board
The agency finally established in 1944 after the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, and others convinced President Roosevelt of the need for it. This agency negotiated the rescue and r [..]
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Typhus
An infectious disease carried by lice or fleas that resulted in many deaths in the labour and concentration camps and ghettos.
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Aktion
A Nazi operation involving seeking out, assembling, shooting, deporting to labour or death camps - taking place in Jewish villages or ghettos.
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Anielewicz
Jewish resistance leader in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, killed on 8 May 1943.
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anschluss
German for "political union," used by Germans to describe the annexation of Austria by Germany on 13 March 13 1938.
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Belzec
One of the four major death camps located in Poland . A Jewish forced labour camp was established in the vicinity in 1940. An extermination camp commenced functioning in March 1942 when the death camp [..]
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Bergen-Belsen
Originally a prisoner of war camp, and then a holding camp for the possible exchange of prisoners for Germans held captive by the allies. It was not initially a concentration camp, being given the off [..]
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Birkenau
Auschwitz II, originally a camp for Russian prisoners-of-war. In spring 1942, the mass murder of Jews, Gypsies and others began there. Four purpose built gas chambers and crematoria were eventually fu [..]
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Chelmno
Established as an extermination camp in late 1941 near Lodz, western Poland. It became the first camp to execute victims using carbon monoxide gas produced by gasoline powered vehicle engines. At th [..]
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