Could you name any of the Concentration Camps from WWII?

Won't spell them right I am sure. Haven't looked yet.

Aushwitz, Dachu, Burkinwal(?), My memory is failing me.

Who knows we had a Prison of War Camp for German military on US soil?
Bataan Death March...
Let us not forget the Japanese Interment

Humans really are cruel, some more then others!

My history book in fifth grade went from prehistoric man to Bill Clinton. It is no wonder that kids can't remember a lot when we just shove information down their throats. I maybe taught history for 30 minutes three to four times a week. I know that American history gets taught a couple of times in kids' education, but you never know what parts are covered in a book that is the largest book kids have. Some years I focused on the founding of the US, some years WWII and some years was more political. Now some history teachers are focusing more on 1950 to current events.

They all learned about the Japanese internment camps because several of my favorite historical picture books covered that topic.  The Bracelet, Baseball Saved Us, and Passage to Freedom. There were also a lot of great books that made children think about how others were effected in WWII.  My all time favorite book to start a discussion was The Faithful Elephants.  You could hear a pin drop when that book was read. Rose Blanche was another one that made that war a little more personal.

I can name 5.

Aushwitz, Dachu, Plazzow, Belzeck, Treblincka

I can name three but I'm not sure on the spelling. Auschwitz, Berkinau, Dachu. My 9th grade history teacher spent months on the Holocaust, going so far as to wall paper his room in photos of the rescued prisoners and SS propaganda posters. It has stuck with me although I don't remember much about the little details we learned.

There are a lot of horrific atrocities that have happened all over the world in modern times (1900s+) that are not taught that people know nothing about. I tend to think they are overlooked because they didn't happen to white people.

When I was in the 6th grade we lived in Germany. Our class trip was to a concentration camp. I don't remember the name of the camp. But I do remember the feelings. One thing that struck with me was the black gass stains on the walls. Just one thing, out of many that I remember.

We also went to Hitler's Eagle's nest.

Do you have any idea of how many there was? In my country alone, there was multiple (although I’m sure you have to be more than average interested to know more than Grini and Falstad). I would be disappointed if my children can’t name the following: Dachau, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Sobibor, Ravensbruck. Most 15 yo’s are travelling to Poland and Germany with the White Buses (it’s voluntary, but most go). My only objection with those trips, is that the focus is not on what happened here and that it gives the impression that «all Germans were bad, things like that couldn’t happen here» when they did. On a smaller scale, but the stories are no less horrific. And I’m sure you can find the same in every occupied country. 

Yes, I could name at least 10 or so.

My fil liberated Bergen Belsen. He told us a lot of stories, and I have read a ton, so I know a lot of them. My 20 year old son does as well.

Yes I could name quite a few of them. We cover it in history lessons at school here. DD1 visited  Auschwitz on an educational history school trip a few years ago.

You’re in the Netherlands? One of the best museums I have ever been to was the Dutch Resistance Museum in Amsterdam. So very well done, and really portrayed the horrors of the wars.  I don’t think I will ever forget the baby’s pram with a hollowed out section under the mattress where the Mum kept a pistol - just imagine things being so awful that you have to keep a loaded pistol under your tiny baby!

And your post reminded me of another powerful exhibit we saw there - embroidery done by the women in camps. They had just a couple of needles which they shared, and they would carefully draw a thread from their garments to use as embroidery thread to depict scenes from the camp, their families’ names etc.  It was just as you say - a weird contradiction of ugliness of the camps and the beauty the women created.

I am not surprised. And can I mention, as a former HS teacher, how little kids know about Sept 11.

Our middle school curriculum teaches the Holocaust and a Holocaust survivor comes and speaks to them. It's a shame that this isn't something every school child is taught.

I can name one. Auschwitz (and I probably butchered the spelling).

I'm in my 50s, my grandfather served in WWII. I was taught about the Holocaust and all the evil that went on. I'm horrified by it all. 

But does it make me a bad person that I can't name any more than one?