Concentration Camps: List of Major Camps
CAMP | LOCALE | TYPE | USAGE | CLOSURE | PRESENT |
| Auschwitz-Birkenau | Poland | Annihilation; Forced Labor | April 1940- January 1945 | Liberation (USSR) | Preserved (Museum) |
| Belzec | Poland | Annihilation | March 1942- June 1943 | Liquidation | Monument |
| Bergen-Belsen | Germany | Holding Center | April 1943- April 1945 | Liberation (UK) | Graveyard |
| Buchenwald | Germany | Forced Labor | July 1937- April 1945 | Liberation (USA) | Preserved (Museum) |
| Chelmno | Poland | Annihilation | December 1944- April 1943; April 1944- January 1945 | Liquidation | Monument |
| Dachau | Germany | Forced Labor | March 1933- April 1945 | Liberation (USA) | Preserved (Museum) |
| Dora-Mittelbau | Germany | Forced Labor | September 1943- April 1945 | Liberation (USA) | Memorial Sculpture |
| Flossenburg | Germany | Forced Labor | May 1938- April 1945 | Liberation (USA) | Monument |
| Gross-Rosen | Poland | Forced Labor | August 1940- February 1945 | Liberation (USSR) | Preserved (Museum) |
| Janowska | Ukraine | Annihilation; Forced Labor | September 1941- November 1943 | Liquidation | Not Maintained |
| Kaiserwald | Latvia | Forced Labor | March 1943- September 1944 | Liquidation | Not Maintained |
| Majdanek | Poland | Annihilation | July 1941- July 1944 | Liberation (USSR) | Preserved (Museum) |
| Mauthausen | Austria | Forced Labor | August 1938- May 1945 | Liberation (USA) | Monument |
| Natzweiler-Struthof | France | Forced Labor | May 1941- September 1944 | Liquidation | Preserved |
| Neuengamme | Germany | Forced Labor | June 1940- May 1945 | Liberation (UK) | Monument (Prison) |
| Oranienburg | Germany | Holding Center | March 1933- March 1935 | Liquidation | Not Maintained |
| Plaszow | Poland | Forced Labor | December 1942- January 1945 | Liquidation | Not Maintained |
| Ravensbruck | Germany | Forced Labor | May 1939- April 1945 | Liberation (USSR) | Monument |
| Sachsenhausen | Germany | Forced Labor | July 1936- | Liberation (USSR) | Preserved (Museum) |
| Sobibor | Poland | Annihilation | May 1942- October 1943 | Liquidation | Monument |
| Stutthof | Poland | Forced Labor | September 1939- May 1945 | Liberation (USSR) | Preserved (Museum) |
| Terezin | Czech Republic | Holding Center/Transit | November 1941- May 1945 | Liberation (USSR) | Monument |
| Treblinka | Poland | Annihilation | July 1942- November 1943 | Liquidation | Monument |
| Westerbork | Netherlands | Transit | October 1939- April 1945 | Liberation (Canada) | Monument |
Sources: The Simon Wiesenthal Center
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