Concentration camps
Concentration camps is the collective term for internment facilities, usually in the form of huts, used to (forcibly) imprison people. Before and during World War II, concentration camps were used to imprison or kill persecuted people. They were also used for forced labour.
There were about 1,000 concentration and sub-camps and seven extermination camps. They were designed for the murder of millions of people, the elimination of political opponents, exploitation through forced labour, human medical experiments and the internment of prisoners of war. The camp system was an essential part of the National Socialist regime of injustice, from which large branches of German industry directly or indirectly benefitted.
The people from the Secret Annex all ended up in various concentration and extermination camps:
- Anne Frank: Westerbork, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen Belsen
- Margot Frank: Westerbork, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen Belsen
- Edith Frank: Westerbork, Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Otto Frank: Westerbork, Auschwitz-I
- Peter van Pels: Westerbork, Auschwitz-I, Mauthausen, Melk
- Hermann van Pels: Westerbork, Auschwitz-I
- Auguste van Pels: Westerbork, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen Belsen, Raguhn
- Fritz Pfeffer: Westerbork, Auschwitz-I, Neuengamme