Background Notes on the Holocaust

 -The Holocaust occurred from 1941-1945
-10 million murdered
-6 million were Jewish; 2/3 of European Jewish population
-Six largest extermination camps were in Poland, which had a Jewish population of about 3.4 million
-Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chelmno, and Majdanek  
-Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1.1 million people murdered
-Treblinka, over 800,000 murdered 

*Viktor Frankl was imprisoned in four Nazi concentration camps between 1942 and 1945: Theresienstadt (Terezín), Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kaufering III (a subcamp of Dachau), and Türkheim (another Dachau subcamp). He was liberated from Türkheim in April 1945. 

• Theresienstadt (September 1942): Frankl was deported here first, where he worked as a doctor and his father died. (Czech Republic today)

• Auschwitz (October 1944): He was transferred here, where he survived selection, but his mother died in Auschwitz, and his wife later died at Bergen-Belsen.

• Kaufering & Türkheim (1944–1945): These were slave labor subcamps of Dachau, Germany, where Frankl endured extreme labor and illness.