List of Nazi concentration camps Facts for Kids

This article lists some of concentration camps set up by the Third Reich, and includes camps such as Dachau which was set up at first to help the Nazis keep power and control political opponents, and other camps such as Auschwitz which was set up to help fulfil the Final Solution. The German Ministry of Justice, in 1967, named about 1200 camps and subcamps in countries occupied by Nazi Germany, while the Jewish Virtual Library writes "It is estimated that the Nazis established 15,000 camps in the occupied countries." Most of these camps were destroyed.

Table of selected Nazi concentration camps

According to the table below, an estimated 7,991,460 people lost their lives in the camps.

Camp Name	Country (today)	Camp Type	Dates of use	Est. prisoners	Est. deaths	Sub-camps
Alderney	Alderney, Channel Islands	Labour camps	Jan 1942 – Jun 1944	6,000	700	Lager Borkum, Lager Helgoland, Lager Norderney, Lager Sylt
Amersfoort	Netherlands	Transit camp and prison	Aug 1941 - Apr 1945	35,000	1,000
Arbeitsdorf	Germany	Labour camp	8 Apr 1942 – 11 Oct 1942		600 min.	none
Auschwitz-Birkenau	Poland	Extermination and Labour camp	Apr 1940 – Jan 1945	8 min. in August 1944	1,100,000 min. out of 4,000,000 rec. arrivals
Banjica	Serbia	Concentration camp	Jun 1941 – Sep 1944	23,637 min.
Bardufoss	Norway	Concentration camp	Mar 1944 – ????	800	250
Bełżec	Poland	Extermination camp	Oct 1941 – Jun 1943		434,508 min.
Bergen-Belsen	Germany	Collection point	Apr 1943 – Apr 1945		70,000	2
Berlin-Marzahn	Germany	Early a "rest place" then Labour camp for Roma	July 1936 -			none
Bernburg	Germany	Collection point	Apr 1942 – Apr 1945		100,000	2
Bogdanovka	Moldova	Concentration camp	1941	54,000	40,000
Bolzano	Italy	Transit	Jul 1944 – Apr 1945	11,116
Bredtvet	Norway	Concentration camp	Fall, 1941 - May, 1945	1,000 min.	????	none
Breendonk	Belgium	Prison and Labour camp	20 Sep 1940 – Sep 1944	3532 min.	391 min.	none
Breitenau	Germany	"Early wild camp", then Labour camp	Jun 1933 – Mar 1934, 1940–1945	470 - 8500
Buchenwald	Germany	Labour camp	Jul 1937 – Apr 1945	250,000	56,000	list
Chełmno (Kulmhof)	Poland	Extermination camp	Dec 1941 – Apr 1943, Apr 1944 – Jan 1945		152,000 min.
Crveni krst	Serbia	Concentration camp	1941–1945	30,000	12,300
Dachau	Germany	Labour camp	Mar 1933 – Apr 1945	200,000	31,591	list
Drancy	France	Internment camp, transit	20 Aug 1941 – 17 Aug 1944	70,000		Three of five Paris annexes: Austerlitz, Lévitan and Bassano camps
Falstad	Norway	Prison camp	Dec 1941 – May 1945		200 min.	none
Flossenbürg	Germany	Labour camp	May 1938 – Apr 1945	100,000 min.	30,000	list
Fort de Romainville	France	Prison and transit camp	1940 – Aug 1944	8,100 min.	200 min.	none
Fort VII (Poznań)	Poland	Concentration, detention, transit	Oct 1939 – Apr 1944	18,000 min.	4,500 min.
Fossoli	Italy	Prison and transit camp	5 Dec 1943 - Nov 1944		none
Grini	Norway	Prison camp	2 May 1941 – May 1945	19,788	8	Fannrem Bardufoss Kvænangen
Gross-Rosen	Poland	Labour camp; Nacht und Nebel camp	Aug 1940 – Feb 1945	125,000	40,000	list
Herzogenbusch (Vught)	Netherlands	Concentration camp	1943 - Summer 1944	31,000	750	list
Hinzert	Germany	Collection point and subcamp	Jul 1940 – Mar 1945	14,000	302 min.
Janowska (Lwów)	Ukraine	Ghetto; transit, Labour, & extermination camp	Sep 1941 – Nov 1943		40,000 min.	none
Jasenovac concentration camp	Croatia	Extermination camp for Jews, Serbs Roma, Croats, and Bosniaks	1941–1944	100,000 min.	100,000 min.	Stara Gradiška concentration camp, Sisak children's concentration camp, Donja Gradina, Jasenovac main
Kaiserwald (Mežaparks)	Latvia	Labour camp	1942 – 6 Aug 1944	20,000?		16, incl. Eleja-Meitenes
Kaufering/Landsberg	Germany	Labour camp	Jun 1943 – Apr 1945	30,000	14,500 min.
Kauen (Kaunas)	Lithuania	Ghetto and internment camp	????			Prawienischken
Klooga	Estonia	Labour camp	Summer 1943 – 28 Sep 1944		2,400
Langenstein-Zwieberge	Germany	Buchenwald subcamp	Apr 1944 – Apr 1945	5,000	2,000
Le Vernet	France	Internment camp	1939–1944
Majdanek (KZ Lublin)	Poland	Extermination camp	Jul 1941 – Jul 1944		78,000
Malchow	Germany	Labour and Transit camp	Winter 1943 – 8 May 1945	5,000
Maly Trostenets	Belarus	Extermination camp	Jul 1941 – Jun 1944		65,000
Mauthausen-Gusen	Austria	Labour camp	Aug 1938 – May 1945	195,000	95,000 min.
Mittelbau-Dora	Germany	Labour camp	Sep 1943 – Apr 1945	60,000	20,000 min.	list
Natzweiler-Struthof (Struthof)	France	Labour camp; Nacht und Nebel camp; extermination camp	May 1941 – Sep 1944	40,000	25,000	list
Neuengamme	Germany	Labour camp	13 Dec 1938 – 4 May 1945	106,000	42,900+	list
Niederhagen	Germany	Prison and Labour camp	Sep 1941 – early 1943	3,900	1,285	none
Oberer Kuhberg	Germany	Concentration camp	Nov 1933 – 1935		0	Former infantry base Gleißelstetten
Ohrdruf	Germany	Labour and concentration camp; Buchenwald subcamp	Nov 1944 - Apr 1945	11,700
Oranienburg	Germany	Collective point	Mar 1933 – Jul 1934	3,000	16 min.
Osthofen	Germany	Collective point	Mar 1933 – Jul 1934
Płaszów	Poland	Labour camp	Dec 1942 – Jan 1945	150,000 min.	9,000 min.	list
Ravensbrück	Germany	Labour camp for women	May 1939 – Apr 1945	150,000	90,000 min.	list
Risiera di San Sabba (Trieste)	Italy	Police detainment camp	Sep 1943 – 29 Apr 1945	25,000	5,000
Sachsenhausen	Germany	Labour camp	Jul 1936 – Apr 1945	200,000 min.	100,000	list
Sajmiste	Serbia	Extermination camp	Dec 1941 – Sep 1944		100,000
Salaspils	Latvia	Labour camp	Oct 1941 – Summer 1944		2,000
Sobibór	Poland	Extermination camp	May 1942 - Oct 1943		200,000 max.
Soldau	Poland	Labour; Transit camp	Winter 1939/40 – Jan 1945	30,000	13,000
Stutthof	Poland	Labour camp	Sep 1939 – May 1945	110,000	65,000	list
Theresienstadt (Terezín)	Czech Republic	Transit camp and Ghetto	Nov 1941 – May 1945	140,000	35,000 min.
Treblinka	Poland	Extermination camp	Jul 1942 – Nov 1943		870,000
Vaivara	Estonia	Concentration and transit camp	15 Sep 1943 – 29 Feb 1944	20,000	950	22
Warsaw	Poland	Labour and extermination camp	1942–1944	400,000 max.	200,000 max.
Westerbork	Netherlands	Transit camp	May 1940 – Apr 1945	102,000

List of Nazi concentration camps facts for kids

Table of selected Nazi concentration camps

See also