What was the worst concentration camp during the Holocaust?

Death toll

Camp	Estimated deaths	Occupied territory
Auschwitz–Birkenau	1,100,000	Province of Upper Silesia
Treblinka	800,000	General Government district
Bełżec	600,000	General Government district
Chełmno	320,000	District of Reichsgau Wartheland

How many survivors of Auschwitz are there?

This list represents only a very small portion of the 1.1 million victims and survivors of Auschwitz and is not intended to be viewed as a representative or exhaustive count by any means.

What happened at Auschwitz?

Those deported to the camp complex were gassed, starved, worked to death and even killed in medical experiments. The vast majority were murdered in the complex of gas chambers at Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. Six million Jewish people died in the Holocaust – the Nazi campaign to eradicate Europe’s Jewish population.

When was Auschwitz liberated?

January 27, 1945
Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp/Start dates
On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying.

What happened to babies in concentration camps?

Children who were healthy enough for labor were often worked to death doing jobs to benefit the camp; other times, children were forced to do unnecessary jobs like digging ditches. Non-Jewish children from certain other targeted groups were not spared. In the Auschwitz concentration camp, Romani children were killed.

Which concentration camp was the best?

However, the staff had only succeeded in partially destroying the crematoria before Soviet Red Army troops arrived on July 24, 1944, making Majdanek the best-preserved camp of the Holocaust due to the incompetence of its deputy commander, Anton Thernes.

How old is the youngest Holocaust survivor?

Angela Orosz-Richt (born December 21, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp), is a Holocaust survivor. Orosz is one of only two babies known to have been born in the Auschwitz complex and survive to liberation….

Angela Orosz
Occupation	Schoolteacher, Public speaker
Years active	2004-present

Who discovered the concentration camps?

In most of the camps discovered by the Soviets, almost all the prisoners had already been removed, leaving only a few thousand alive—7,000 inmates were found in Auschwitz, including 180 children who had been experimented on by doctors.

Who found Auschwitz?

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, approved the site in April 1940 on the recommendation of SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss of the camps inspectorate. Höss oversaw the development of the camp and served as its first commandant. The first 30 prisoners arrived on 20 May 1940 from the Sachsenhausen camp.

Were any babies born in concentration camps?