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  • I am not finding any names other than those. Here is some history behind those names and a possible answer to your question: Auschwitz, the site of the largest mass murder in the history of the world did not start out as a death camp. In the spring of 1940, Rudolf Höss, a captain in the SS (Schutzstaffel), the elite defense organization that answered only to Hitler and advanced his plans, became Commandant of a new Nazi concentration camp at the southwestern Polish town of Oswiecim. Auschwitz, as the Germans called it, was in territory that Hitler had invaded the previous year. But the bloodbaths would continue and grow even larger when a new camp was built a mile and a half from Auschwitz, at a place the Poles called Brzezinka, and the Germans Birkenau. It also became known as Auschwitz II. http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/40-45/beginnings/ Auschwitz is more than one place: it is a small town, now called Oswiecim, in what is now Poland, but the name Auschwitz also refers to three separate prison camps called Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II and Auschwitz III, all of which were located just outside the town. The Auschwitz complex was an extermination camp, a labor camp, a transit camp and a concentration camp, all rolled into one. The size of the Auschwitz "Zone of Interest" was 40 square kilometers. http://www.scrapbookpages.com/AuschwitzScrapbook/History/Articles/Birkenau01.html Within Auschwitz was the "Gypsy Family Camp"... our personal Hell. Roma in Germany were deported to Auschwitz, where a special camp was designated for them in Auschwitz-Birkenau--the "Gypsy family camp." Entire families were incarcerated together. Twins and dwarves, however, were separated out and subjected to pseudoscientific medical experiments under SS Captain Dr. Josef Mengele. Nazi physicians also used Romani prisoners in medical experiments at the Ravensbrueck, Natzweiler-Struthof, and Sachsenhausen camps. The "Gypsy family camp" at Auschwitz was riddled with epidemics--typhus, smallpox, and dysentery--which severely reduced the camp population. In May 1944, the Germans decided to liquidate the camp. As the SS surrounded the camp, they were met by Roma armed with iron pipes and the like. The Germans retreated and postponed the liquidation. Later that same month, the SS transferred about 1,500 Roma who were still capable of work out of the family camp. Almost 1,500 more were transferred in August. The remaining Roma, about 3,000, were killed. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005219
  • There were many concentration camps other than Auschwitz - maybe that is what you mean? Other camps were: Dachau - this was the first concentration camp; Treblinka, Belzec, Chelmno, Lublin and Sobibór - these were all in Poland Buchenwald - in Germany Then there were many more labour camps, work camps etc. Buchenwald was not technically a "termination" camp, but did have an unusually high number of deaths. This link shows a list of the German camps - of course, not all were in Germany, and not all were for extermination - it is scary when you realise how many camps there were : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nazi-German_concentration_camps If you ever get the chance to see Conspiracy (2001) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266425/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(film) (dvd available at that well known internet booksellers), then do watch it - I sat spellbound watching the movie - I must say it was one of the most convincing portrayals of the the epoch that I have ever seen - dealing with the events involved in the Wannsee Conference, when various officials gathered together under Richard Heydrich to work out the details of the Final Solution.

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