Understanding Major Concentration Camps

What was a concentration camp?

• a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned 

• A place where prisoners of war are placed

• A camp where people go to do work for the government

• A camp for students that have a hard time focusing on school

Which concentration camp was the largest and most notorious during the Holocaust?

• Dachau

• Auschwitz-Birkenau

• Treblinka

• Sobibor

What was the primary function of the Dachau concentration camp when it was first established?

• Extermination

• Labor

• Medical experiments

• Political prisoner detention

Which concentration camp was located near the city of Weimar in Germany?

• Bergen-Belsen

• Buchenwald

• Majdanek

• Belzec

Which of the following concentration camps was specifically designed as an extermination camp?

• Sachsenhausen

• Chelmno

• Ravensbrück

• Mauthausen

What was the primary purpose of the Theresienstadt concentration camp?

• Transit camp

• Extermination camp

• Labor camp

• Propaganda camp

Which concentration camp was liberated by Soviet forces in January 1945?

• Sobibor

• Treblinka

• Auschwitz

• Belzec

Which concentration camp was known for its brutal medical experiments conducted by Dr. Josef Mengele?

• Bergen-Belsen

• Auschwitz

• Dachau

• Buchenwald

Which concentration camp was the first to be established by the Nazi regime in 1933?

• Sachsenhausen

• Dachau

• Auschwitz

• Treblinka

Which concentration camp was located in Poland and was one of the Operation Reinhard camps?

• Sobibor

• Bergen-Belsen

• Ravensbrück

• Sachsenhausen