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Transit Camps During The Holocaust

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Transit camps was an occupied land almost like the Ghettos. But transit camps were where the people would stay before being deported to a concentration camp or straight off into the death row. Transit camps were worst then ghettos, everything was horrible there mostly the condition of the Nazi toward the victims of the Jews. In transit camps more than 70000 people were deported and some were sent to be killed in the East but some actually survived the

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