Famous Holocaust sites around the World

One of the most indescribable events in human history was the Holocaust. Many people believe that you can never truly appreciate or understand something until you see it for yourself. It’s also important to educate yourself about the atrocities of the Holocaust by visiting the locations where they happened.

Some of the most well-known sites of the Holocaust that you can visit today are:

  • Auschwitz Birkenau Concentration Camps
  • Anne Frank’s House
  • Schindler’s Factory in Krakow, Poland
  • The Holocaust Memorial Berlin
  • Yad Vashem
  • Warsaw Ghetto

Concentration camps in Poland

Many of the Nazi’s concentration camps were established in Poland. Auschwitz, Majdanek and Stutthof are the most visited by tourists, and are easily accessible to travellers visiting Krakow, Lublin, Warsaw or Gdansk. The other major Nazi camps in Poland are:

  • Belzec – established in 1942, it is estimated that some 600,000 Jews and Roma had beed murdered there.
  • Chelmno nad Nerem (Cumhof) – established in 1941 as the first death camp built by the Nazis in Poland. An estimated 340,000 were murdered there, the majority Polsih Jews.
  • Rozgoznica (Gross – Rosen) – one of the earliest forced labour camps, established in 1940. 40,000 people perished there.
  • Sobibor – this death camp was set up in 1942, an estimated 250,000 inmates – mostly Jews from Poland, Ukraine, Holland, France and Austria were murdered there.
  • Treblinka – an estimated 800,000 people – Jews, Roma, Poles had perished in its gas chambers.

Women in Auschwitz

A total of over 130,000 women were registered in the Auschwitz complex. They were mostly Jews (82,000), Poles (31,000) and Roma (11,000). Several hundred Jewish women – the elderly, disabled, sick and pregnant, as well as mothers with small children – were classified during selection on the ramp as unfit for labor. They were murdered in the gas chambers immediately after arrival. (The Auschwitz – Birkenau Memorial. A Guidebook. 2016)