Concentration Camps Introduction

"When we arrived, the dead were not carried away any more, you stepped over them, you fell over them... People were begging for water... they were crying... Day and night. You couldn't escape the crying...you couldn't escape the (cries for) "Mercy," it was a chant, the chant of the dead. It was hell."

~Alice Lok Cahana

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By the end of the war there were over 15,000 concentration camps throughout Europe. These camps were places of horrible suffering where families were separated; women, children, husbands, brothers, fathers, sisters, grandparents...all lost their lives, their dignity and suffered immeasurable cruelty. People just like you and I were ripped from their homes and taken to cold, barren, grey patches of mud surrounded by barbed wire and hatred.

                                                 Photo taken outside of Dachau Concentration Camp

                                                   Child survivors of Auschwitz Concentration Camp

                                                               (photo taken January 1945)

 Timeline of Nazi Abuses 

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