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Module 4: The Machinery of Death
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Killing centers (also referred to as "extermination camps" or "death camps") were designed to carry out genocide. Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazis established six killing centers in former Polish territory—Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau (part of the Auschwitz complex), and Majdanek. Chelmno and Auschwitz were established in areas annexed to Germany in 1939.
Path to Nazi Genocide Video
Additional Resources
Mobile Killing Units - Article
SAN ANTONIO SURVIVOR CONNECTION: See Rose Sherman Williams (p. 182), Jack Wyoski (p. 191, 195) and Sam Rosenweig (p. 160)
Survivor accounts in Our Voices, Our Lives: Twenty Holocaust Survivors Remember, Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio, Becky Ebner Hoag, Grace Hoffman Mueller, Roxann Patrick, and Jeanette Pierce.
See photographs of on the back wall in the survival section of the museum local gallery.