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One of several mass graves on the site of the former camp. The sign simply reads: Here lie 5,000 dead. April 1945.

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Between 430,000 and 500,000 Jews are believed to have been murdered by the SS at Bełżec.

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U.S. Army soldiers show the German civilians of Weimarthe corpses found in Buchenwald Concentration Camp.

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Use of the word "concentration" came from the idea of confining people in one place because they belong to a group that is considered undesirable in some way.

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The two largest groups of prisoners in the camps, both numbering in the millions, were the Polish Jews and the Soviet prisoners of war held without trial or judicial process.

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Many of the prisoners died in the concentration camps due to deliberate maltreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork, or they were executed as unfit for labor.

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Though most Nazi concentration and extermination camps were destroyed after the war, some of them were turned into permanent memorials.

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The camps were liberated by the Allied forces between 1944 and 1945. The first major camp, Majdanek, was discovered by the advancing Soviets on July 23, 1944.

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Helene Gotthold, a Jehovah's Witness, was beheaded for her religious beliefs on December 8, 1944, in Berlin

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The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933.