How many jewish concentration camps were there during the holocaust?
None. The Germans, however maintained numerous concentration or “work” camps which housed several ethnic groups besides Jews. In 1941, however Hitler established a lesser number of “extermination” or “death” camps to facilitate his “final solution” for the Jews. The major camps were in German-occupied Poland and included Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka. At its peak, Auschwitz, the most notorious of the camps, housed 100,000 persons. Its poison-gas chambers could accommodate 2,000 at one time, and 12,000 could be gassed and incinerated each day. Prisoners who were deemed able-bodied were initially used in forced-labour battalions or in the tasks of genocide until they were virtually worked to death and then exterminated. Hopefully this explains the discrepancy in your numbers. The number you should focus on, however, is 6,000,000.
