(Times of Israel) Noah Lederman - In 2000, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington tasked researchers with documenting the forced labor camps, ghettos, POW camps, and concentration camps the Nazis had established, estimating that the team would uncover about 5,000 persecution sites. The Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945 currently contains more than 42,500 sites that the Nazis used to persecute, exploit, and murder their victims. Researchers refrained from counting sub-camps, of which there were tens of thousands.
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