Project Death Camps Memorial Site (DCMS) is a website and regularly updated Facebook and Instagram on: Facebook and Instagram about German and Nazi concentration and extermination camps, as well as the activities of criminal organizations such as: SS, SD, Gestapo, Einsatzgruppen.
The DCMS project is run by an enthusiast of history, photography, and travel. All the photos (except archival ones) and the prepared texts have been created by me and are based on 17 years of expanding knowledge by studying: historical sources, archives and museum collections (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem, Polish Institute of National Remembrance), books, scientific publications, testimonies and accounts of witnesses, former prisoners and torturers, as well as numerous consultations with museum staff and guides.
The purpose of DCMS is to spread knowledge related to the events that took place during World War II, including topics such as: genocide, the Holocaust, and crimes against humanity. The websites are written in the following languages: Polish and English, and have an international reach thanks to the use of the Internet, social media services, streaming platforms...
Concentration and Extermination Camps 1933-1945
The largest Nazi German concentration and extermination camps (in terms of the greatest number of deaths) in 1933-1945. In some places, as part of hiding evidence (Action 1005 / Sonderkommando 1005 ), only monuments and museums remained, which were created on the grounds of former extermination camps.
Knowledge Base
Revolt in Sobibor – an assault on immortality
On October 14, 1943, an armed uprising of Sonderkommando prisoners took place in the German death camp in Sobibor. The goal was to escape from the camp and save themselves from death. In the extermination camps, apart from SS supe...
SS Wachmannschaften, torturers from the East
The “Wachmannschaften des SS- und Polizeiführers in Distrikt Lublin”, informally called Trawnikimänner (as well as Askarysi, Hiwis), was a collaborative formation from World War II. It included Soviet prisoners of war and ci...
KL Gross-Rosen - interesting places
KL Gross-Rosen was located in the administrative area of the German state (Third Reich), near the present-day village of Rogoźnica (post-war name) in the Dolnośląskie Voivodeship. It operated in the years 1940-1945. 125,000 pr...
On April 16, 1947, Rudolf Höss was executed
On April 16, 1947, Rudolf Höss, the first commandant and founder of the Auschwitz camp, was executed. ...
Stanisława Leszczyńska - "Mother"
Stanisława Leszczyńska (born on May 8, 1896 in Łódź, died on March 11, 1974 in Łódź) – a Polish midwife imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp, a volunteer called "Mother" and the Handmaid of the Catholic Church...
April 11, 1961 - the trial of Adolf Eichmann
55 years ago, on April 11, 1961, the trial of Adolf Eichmann began in Jerusalem. He was the head of the Jewish department at the Reich Main Security Office, "the murderer from behind the desk," responsible for the death of million...
Joseph Mengele - "Angel of Death" from Auschwitz
Josef Mengele (born on March 16, 1911 in Günzburg, deceased on February 7, 1979 in Bertioga, Brazil), a German scientist and doctor, an SS officer. He is best known for his service in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp as the "Angel of ...
The Gleiwitz incident - events from 31.08.1939
Yesterday we were in the vicinity of the highest wooden broadcasting tower in the world, located in Gliwice and being a witness to an important historical event, the Gleiwitz incident. ...
Rudolf Höß - commandant of Auschwitz
Rudolf Höß (Höss, Hoess) - German Nazi in the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer, the first commandant and founder of the Auschwitz camp. Member of the NSDAP, SS and Totenkopfverband. ...
Timeline
| 1933/03/22 | the first transport prisoners to Dachau concentration camp. |
| 1939/09/02 | the first transport of 150 prisoners to Sztutowo - construction of the future KL Stutthof camp started. |
| 1940/04/27 | after a series of inspections of various facilities, the SS commander Heinrich Himmler gives the order to set up a camp in Oświęcim. |
| 1940/06/14 | German authorities direct the first mass transport of political prisoners to Auschwitz - 728 Poles |
Also check:
| Museum Auschwitz |
| www.auschwitz.org |
| Museum Chełmno |
| www.chelmno-muzeum.eu |
| Museum Belzec |
| www.belzec.eu |
| Museum Gross-Rosen: |
| www.gross-rosen.eu |
| Museum Majdanek |
| www.majdanek.eu |
| Museum Treblinka |
| www.muzeumtreblinka.eu |
| Museum Sobibor |
| www.sobibor-memorial.eu |
| Museum Stutthof |
| www.stutthof.org |
Einsatzgruppen - Death Squads 1938-1945
Ensatzgruppen - German special operational groups (units separated from SIPO and SD) moving behind the front line, created by the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) on the orders of Reinhard Heydrich. It is estimated that at least 900,000 people died at the hands of the Einsatzgruppen torturers, and according to some sources this number could even reach 1,500,000 - 2,000,000.
About the author
My name is Paweł Krupiński. In my free time, I travel around historical sites - mainly the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camps. In over 15 years, I have visited various concentration and extermination camps almost 300 times - both for private and commercial purposes.
Historical consultations, hundreds of books read, watched documentaries and historical films about the Holocaust, camps, the Third Reich and the German Empire (starting from the Thule Society 1918 to 1945), and then the fate of post-war Nazi criminals and the history of World War II. In addition to the camps, I also visit other historical places (Wolf's Lair, the Pomeranian Wall, the site of Operation Anthropoid, etc.)
I often travel to places such as Auschwitz, Auschwitz Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibór, Bełżec, Majdanek, Chełmno nad Nerem, Stutthof, Gross-Rosen, Płaszów, Pustków, Theresienstadt, and other places related to genocide and martyrdom. I am constantly expanding my knowledge on the subject of death camps, extermination, the Holocaust, Nazi crimes, and crimes against humanity.