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Are you thinking of one of the uprisings? I think that particular one took place at Sobibor...Or possibly Treblinka. Yeah. 200 Jews escaped and systematically killed the SS that were in the camp. More than 500 tried to escape; many of them were gunned down by the snipers in the guard towers (which they had planned to destroy).

Note: I double checked to see where this uprising took place. It happened at Auschwitz-Birkenau, in January of 1944. The sonderkommandos, or Jews who took the dead to the creamation ovens, staged a coup against the SS leaders of the camp, as mentioned above.

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What does extermination camp mean?

well an extermination camp is a camp where the Jews are sent so that the Nazi's can exterminate them or in other words where they can kill them.. try and kill off the race.


What year did the first Nazi death camp become fully operational?

The term death camp is vague. It is generally used for extermination camps, that is camps which had exterminationas their sole or main purpose. The first such camp to become fully operational was Chelmno, where routine mass gassings of Jews started on 8 December 1941. The system of extermination camps was fully operational by April 1942. However, if you simply mean a concentration camp (in the sense of a horrific labour and punishment camp) then Dachau, which opened on 22 March 1933, was the first. Two camps - the Auschwitz group and Majdanek - combined both functions.


How did Ellie escape from concentration camps?

Do you mean Elie Wiesel? He did not escape, he was liberated. He managed to survive until he was freed from the camp.


Which camps were both labor and death camps?

In this answer the term death camp is taken to mean extermination camp, and not simply a concentration camp with a high death toll.All extermination camps used some inmates as labourers to help with corpse disposal and some other tasks.There were two dual camps of this kind:Auschwitz - A part of Auschwitz-Birkenau (also referred to as Auschwitz II) was an extermination camp, while Auschwitz I, III and the satellite camps were extremely harsh concentration camps.Majdanek - This camp was one of the very worst camps. It was both a very harsh concentration and it alsohad a section that was used for extermination.


What does camp mean?

Camp means camp

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What does extermination camp mean?

well an extermination camp is a camp where the Jews are sent so that the Nazi's can exterminate them or in other words where they can kill them.. try and kill off the race.


What did to the East mean?

It was a euphemism in common use that meant going to an extermination camp. The Jews were told they were being resettled "to the East" in part, this lie kept them calm and gave them hope that their plight would be better in the near future.


What year did the first Nazi death camp become fully operational?

The term death camp is vague. It is generally used for extermination camps, that is camps which had exterminationas their sole or main purpose. The first such camp to become fully operational was Chelmno, where routine mass gassings of Jews started on 8 December 1941. The system of extermination camps was fully operational by April 1942. However, if you simply mean a concentration camp (in the sense of a horrific labour and punishment camp) then Dachau, which opened on 22 March 1933, was the first. Two camps - the Auschwitz group and Majdanek - combined both functions.


Which countries Jews were at the bottom of Hitlers list?

The question is ambiguous. It could mean 'last on the list for extermination' or 'regarded as the lowest'.


How did Ellie escape from concentration camps?

Do you mean Elie Wiesel? He did not escape, he was liberated. He managed to survive until he was freed from the camp.


What did the Nazis mean when they spoke of the final solution?

in this context they would normal talk about the final solution to the Jewish question, which was the extermination of the Jews.


Which camps were both labor and death camps?

In this answer the term death camp is taken to mean extermination camp, and not simply a concentration camp with a high death toll.All extermination camps used some inmates as labourers to help with corpse disposal and some other tasks.There were two dual camps of this kind:Auschwitz - A part of Auschwitz-Birkenau (also referred to as Auschwitz II) was an extermination camp, while Auschwitz I, III and the satellite camps were extremely harsh concentration camps.Majdanek - This camp was one of the very worst camps. It was both a very harsh concentration and it alsohad a section that was used for extermination.


How many people perished in Buchenwald?

Accoding to the Wikipedia article on Buchenwald 56,545 prisoners perished at Buchenwald out of a total of 238,380 who entered the camp alive. This does not, however, mean that the others all survived, as many prisoners were transferred to other camps and perished there. (It was a harsh concentration camp, but not an extermination camp).


What does the word concentration mean in the phrase concentration camps?

It means Jews are locked up in this very dangerous camp


How many people died in nazi concetration camps?

The biggest camps had about 16,000 inmates at any one time. As people were worked to death they were replaced by new arrivals. At the extermination camps, such as Treblinka II and the Birkenau section of Auschwitz, most newly arrived Jews were gassed as quickly as possible after arrival. From about mid to late 1944 onwards many prisoners were moved from the camps in Poland to camps in Germany itself, which then experienced a huge increase in numbers.


Why did the catholic church and its leaders and priests leand so much support to Hitler and his extermination of the Jews?

Because sometimes religious people can be crazy and mean. By the way, I'm an atheist.


What does sterminio mean?

Its Italian for extermination.