KZ
Flossenburg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by
the SS at Flossenburg, in the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria,
Germany, near the pre-war border with Czechoslovakia. Between
1938, when the camp was established, and liberation in April 1945,
more than 96,000 prisoners passed through Flossenburg. About
30,000 died there.
KZ Ohrdruf was a Nazi concentration camp located near
Weimar, Germany. In late March 1945, the camp had a prisoner
population of some 11,700, but in early April the SS evacuated
almost all the prisoners on death marches to Buchenwald. The SS
killed many of the remaining prisoners who were too ill to walk to
the railcars.
KZ Woebbelin, near the city of Ludwigslust, was a subcamp
of the Neuengamme concentration camp. The SS had established
Woebbelin to house concentration camp prisoners whom the SS had
evacuated from other camps to prevent their liberation by the
Allies. At its height, Woebbelin held some 5,000 inmates, most of
whom were suffering from starvation and disease. The camp was
freed on May 2, 1945. (Material licensed under the GNU
Free Documentation License from Wikipedia).
The
Holocaust is a history of enduring horror and sorrow - the
systematic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazis
during World War 2. In 1933 nine million Jews lived in the 21
countries of Europe that would be military occupied by Germany
during the war. By 1945 two out of every three European Jews had
been killed.
The number of children killed during the Holocaust is not
fathomable and full statistics for the tragic fate of children who
died will never be known. Estimates range as high as 1.5 million
murdered children. This figure includes more than 1.2 million
Jewish children, tens of thousands of Gypsy children and thousands
of handicapped children.
The Holocaust survivor Abel Herzberg has said: "There
were not six million Jews murdered; there was one murder, six
million times."
