This section covers the history of all the major extermination centers. This section covers the history of several sub-camps. This section covers the history of major concentration camps. This huge list contains the names of hundreds concentration camps, external "kommando" or auxiliary camps and, when known, the names of the German companies who used inmates as slaves. The camps had their own language. "Kapo", "kommando", all these barbaric words had a special meaning. This is a kind of "dictionary" of the vocabulary used in the camps. Dozen of companies used prisoners in concentration camps for slave labor. To describe the course of the day in a concentration camp is a difficult exercise.
of the Camps:
The following description is based on the common points found in several testimonies of survivors.