The historical maps illustrate different themes: the internment camps in France, France in 1940, Europe in 1942, the ghettos of Poland, the routes of the main convoys to Auschwitz, the concentration camp universe, the death marches.
The main internment and extermination camps
This map of the camps in Europe makes it possible to visualize the organization of persecution and killing. The concentration camps are spread over all the German territory, in Alsace and in Poland, when the killing camps and mixed camps are concentrated "in the east", in Poland.
The France of the camps
A very complete support on the geography of camps in France: concentration camps, internment camps, camps reserved for Jews, camps of the organization Todt and camps under German administration.
Europe in 1942
This map is a report of power relations in 1942, a pivotal year. We visualise the Nazi "Great Reich", the countries occupied by Germany, those occupied by Italy, the Axis countries, neutral countries and allied combatant countries.
The ghettos of Poland
This map shows the different stages of the occupation of Poland by Germany as well as the distribution of the many ghettos created on these territories, in Poland but also in Lithuania and Latvia.
The routes of the main convoys to Auschwitz
The map of the routes of the trains that brought more than one million Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau, coming from almost all the countries in Europe occupied by Germany or allied with the Nazi state.
The death marches
This map shows the detailed routes taken in 1945 for the death marches from Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald.
