A displaced persons (DP) camp established in June 1945 by the U.S. Army near Munich, Germany. One of the largest strictly Jewish DP camps, Foehrenwald accommodated as many as 5,300 Jewish refugees (in January 1946) and had a well-developed infrastructure and cultural life.
A transit camp established by the Nazis in August 1941 in the Drancy suburb of Paris, France. Drancy functioned as a holding facility for Jews designated for deportation. From the summer of 1942 until the camp was liberated in August 1944, over 65,000 Jews were deported from Drancy and murdered in killing centers in occupied Poland. The majority of them were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The first killing center established by the Nazis, Chelmno operated from December 1941 - March 1943 in the Wartheland administrative district under German occupation. At Chelmno, prisoners were murdered in specially equipped trucks into which carbon monoxide from the exhaust was channeled. [...]
The first of three killing centers established under Operation “Reinhard,” the plan to murder all Jews in the Generalgouvernement. Located in the Lublin District of the Generalgouvernement, Belzec killing center operated from March 1942 until December 1942. During that time, an estimated 434,500 Jews and an unknown number of other prisoners were murdered in Belzec in gas chambers using carbon monoxide gas from diesel engines, a method developed for the Aktion T4 "euthanasia" program.
Per decree of the Axis-allied Japanese military during its occupation of Shanghai from 1941-1945, a "Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees" was established in the Hongkew district of Shanghai in February 1943. Over 20,000 Jewish refugees living in Shanghai after fleeing from Europe to escape the Nazis were ordered to relocate into the c. one square mile area of the Restricted Sector, also known as the Hongkew ghetto or Shanghai ghetto.