Nazi authorities began operating industrialized killing centers in occupied Poland in late 1941. The means of killing—primarily the use of poison gas—were intended to make the process of mass murder more efficient and less traumatic for the executioners. Nazi killing centers have also been referred to as “death camps” or “extermination camps."
killing centers
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Wartime Jewish Press
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"Warsaw's Jews are being murdered in Treblinki"
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US Government Rescue Efforts
Americans and the HolocaustAssistant Secretary of War John McCloy to War Refugee Board Director John Pehle
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US Government Rescue Efforts
Americans and the HolocaustDeclaration of December 17, 1942
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Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustImages from the Liberation of Majdanek and Auschwitz
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Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePhotograph of Romani Section of Lodz Ghetto
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Soviet POWs in German Captivity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePhotograph of Trawniki Men at Belzec Killing Center
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleSelf-Portrait by Franz Karl Bühler
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustShoah Outtake with Abraham Bomba
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleSworn Statement of Karl Willig
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US Government Rescue Efforts
Americans and the HolocaustUndelivered Telegram from Gerhart Riegner to Rabbi Stephen Wise
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Abraham Bomba
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US Government Rescue Efforts
Americans and the HolocaustWar Refugee Board Director John Pehle to Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy