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Concentration Camps. By: Mauricio, Natalie, Yesenia. Buchenwald (Germany). Location: Weimar, Germany. Buchenwald (Germany). Liberation: April 11, 1945, by the US Army. Buchenwald (Germany).
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Concentration Camps By: Mauricio, Natalie, Yesenia
Buchenwald (Germany) Location: Weimar, Germany.
Buchenwald (Germany) Liberation: April 11, 1945, by the US Army
Buchenwald (Germany) Estimated number of victims: more than 56.000. This estimate does not include 13000 inmates transferred to Auschwitz or other extermination camps.
Buchenwald (Germany) Established: 1937
Buchenwald (Germany) Weimar is a famous German town known for centuries for its cultural life. Goethe, Schiller, Franz Liszt, and Bach lived in Weimar. Goethe used to climb the Ettersberg and sit and work under a beech tree. It was this place which was chosen by the Nazis to establish the concentration camp of Buchenwald (Beech Wood)
Flossenbürg (Germany) Location: Germany, near Bayreuth
Flossenbürg (Germany) Liberation: April 23th, 1945, by the 2nd U.S. Cavalry
Flossenbürg (Germany) Established on: 1938.
Flossenbürg (Germany) Estimated number of victims: 73,000
Neuengamme (Germany) Location: On the Elbe river, near Hamburg
Neuengamme (Germany) Established: December1938 Liberation: May 1945, by the British Army
Neuengamme (Germany) Estimated number of victims: 56.000.
Auschwitz-Birkenau Location: Oswiecim, Poland
Auschwitz-Birkenau Established: May 26th 1940
Auschwitz-Birkenau Liberation: January 27th, 1945, by the Soviet Army.
Auschwitz-Birkenau Estimated number of victims: 2,1 to 2,5 million (This estimated number of death is considered by historians as a strict minimum. The real number of death is unknown but probably much higher, maybe 4 millions)
The Bibliography http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/index. http://www.google.com