The square dots represent concentration camps where medical experimentation took place. The cruel and gruesome experiments included testing poison gas and new drugs on prisoners, infecting them with diseases such as tuberculosis, and Josef Mengele's series of invasive experiments on twins. Read more about the experiments in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia.
Millions of personal effects were found after camps were liberated. This property was taken from prisoners at Auschwitz before they were sent to the gas chambers. Photo from U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia
This first person account compiled by the Smithsonian Magazine shares the stories of some of the survivors of, Auschwitz, a concentration camp in southern Poland.
Survivors of Mauthausen concentration camp in their bunk.
Austria, 1945. Photo from U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp by 
Night by 
A Survivor's Tale by 
Auschwitz by 
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 by 
The Holocaust by 
Fragments of Isabella by 
The Auschwitz Album by 
Behind Barbed Wire: An Encyclopedia of Concentration and Prisoner-of-War Camps by 
African American soldiers were among the first U.S. liberators of Buchenwald. Military photographers such as William Scott, pictured, documented the horrors and atrocities of the camps.
Photo from U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
This LibGuide was created by Jacquelyn Tasker, MI student, Rutgers University.