Editing Extermination camp (section)

== Victims ==
The estimated total number of people who were murdered in the six Nazi extermination camps is 2.7 million, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.<ref>{{cite web |title=Killing Centers: An Overview |url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/killing-centers-an-overview |website=encyclopedia.ushmm.org |access-date=10 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref> All six camps are located in present-day Poland.
{| class="wikitable"
! Camp
! Estimated<br> deaths <!--descending-->
! Operational
! Occupied territory
! Nearest settlement
! Primary means for mass killings
|-
| {{nowrap|[[Auschwitz concentration camp#Auschwitz II–Birkenau|Auschwitz–Birkenau]]}}
| align=right | 1,100,000<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005189 |author=USHMM.org |title=Auschwitz |quote=It is estimated that the SS and police deported at a minimum 1.3 million people to Auschwitz complex between 1940 and 1945. Of these, the camp authorities murdered 1.1 million." (Number includes victims killed in other Auschwitz camps.) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100131012158/http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005189 |archive-date=31 January 2010 }}</ref>
| May 1940 – January 1945
| Province of Upper Silesia
| [[Oświęcim]]
| Zyklon B gas chambers
|-
| [[Treblinka extermination camp|Treblinka]]
| align=right | 800,000<ref>The [[Höfle Telegram]] indicates some 700,000 killed by 31 December 1942, yet the camp functioned until 1943, hence the true death total likely is greater. {{cite web |url=http://www.nizkor.org/faqs/reinhard/reinhard-faq-13.html |title=Reinhard: Treblinka Deportations |publisher=Nizkor.org |access-date=20 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923030356/http://www.nizkor.org/faqs/reinhard/reinhard-faq-13.html |archive-date=23 September 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| 23 July 1942&nbsp;– 19 October 1943
| General Government district
| [[Treblinka, Masovian Voivodeship|Treblinka]]
| Carbon monoxide gas chambers
|-
| [[Bełżec extermination camp|Bełżec]]
| align=right | 600,000<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005191 |author=USHMM.org |title=Belzec |quote=Between March and December 1942, the Germans deported some 434,500 Jews, and an indeterminate number of Poles and Roma (Gypsies) to Belzec, to be killed.}}</ref>
| 17 March 1942 – end of June 1943
| {{nowrap|[[General Government]] district}}
| [[Bełżec (village)|Bełżec]]
| Carbon monoxide gas chambers
|-
| [[Chełmno extermination camp|Chełmno]]
| align=right | 320,000<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005194 |author=USHMM.org |title=Chełmno |quote=In total, the SS and the police killed some 152,000 people in Chełmno.}}</ref>
| style=white-space:nowrap | 8 December 1941 – March 1943,<br>June 1944 – 18 January 1945
| District of [[Reichsgau Wartheland]]
| [[Chełmno nad Nerem]]
| Carbon monoxide vans
|-
| [[Sobibór extermination camp|Sobibór]]
| align=right | 250,000<ref>In all, the Germans and their auxiliaries killed at least 170,000 people at Sobibór. [http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005192 Holocaust Encyclopedia.]</ref>
| 16 May 1942&nbsp;– 17 October 1943
| General Government district
| [[Sobibór (village)|Sobibór]]
| Carbon monoxide gas chambers
|-
| [[Majdanek concentration camp|Majdanek]]
| align=right | at least 80,000&nbsp;<ref name="Reszka-GW">A recent study reduced the estimated number of deaths at Majdanek, in: Pawel P. Reszka, "Majdanek Victims Enumerated", ''Gazeta Wyborcza'', Lublin, 12 December 2005, [http://auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/majdanek-victims-enumerated-changes-in-the-history-textbooks,44.html reproduced] on the site of the Auschwitz–Birkenau Museum: Lublin scholar Tomasz Kranz established new figure which the Majdanek museum staff consider authoritative. Earlier calculations were greater: c. 360,000, in a much-cited 1948 publication by Judge [[Zdzisław Łukaszkiewicz]], of the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland; and c. 235,000, in a 1992 article by Dr. Czeslaw Rajca, formerly of the Majdanek museum. However, the number of those whose deaths the camp administration did not register remains unknown.</ref>
| 1 October 1941 – 22 July 1944
| {{nowrap|General Government district}}
| [[Lublin]]
| Zyklon B gas chambers
|-
|}