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Poniatowa concentration camp (Poland)
A subcamp of the Majdanek camp system and the largest Jewish labor camp in the Generalgouvernement, prisoners at Poniatowa worked in the armaments sector. All of its prisoners--approximately 15,000 people--were murdered during Operation "Harvest Festival" on November 3-4, 1943.
Mauthausen concentration camp (Austria)
Established in August 1938 near Linz, Austria following the Anschluss, Mauthausen was used primarily for the imprisonment of “asocials” and convicted criminal. Political opponents, religious objectors (i.e. Jehovah’s Witnesses), prisoners of war and Jews were also detained at the camp, which operated until May 1945.
Majdanek concentration camp (Poland)
A Nazi concentration camp located in the Lublin District of the Generalgouvernement in eastern Poland. Majdanek operated from December 1941 as a a transit camp for Jews deemed capable of work, many of whom were selected from transports to killing centers. On November 3-4, 1943, during Operation "Harvest Festival", between 15,000-20,000 Jews were murdered here in one of the largest massacres of the Holocaust.
Gross-Rosen concentration camp (Poland)
Established in 1940 as a satellite of Sachsenhausen concentration camp, from 1941 Gross-Rosen became the administrative center of an industrial complex comprising 97 subcamps where prisoners performed forced labor in armaments production and for German industry in privately-owned factories. The textile factory of Oskar Schindler (portrayed in the 1993 film Schindler's List) was located at the Gross-Rosen subcamp of Bruennlitz.
This map features a selection of locations that figure in the history of the Holocaust. This is not a comprehensive map. The featured locations were selected based on their relevance to the Survival & Witness project. Many sites have been omitted due to the limited scope of this project; new locations will be added as the project is expanded.