Which six extermination camps were located in German-occupied Poland?

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Samuel Bak: Smoke — Holocaust *Smoke*, oil on linen by Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak, 1997.

During the Holocaust, the Nazi regime established six primary extermination camps in German-occupied Poland to facilitate the systematic mass murder of Jews and other targeted groups. These sites were:

Auschwitz
Belzec
Chelmno
Majdanek
Sobibor
Treblinka

These camps represented a shift in Nazi policy from mobile killing units to stationary centers designed for industrial-scale genocide. While Auschwitz and Majdanek also functioned as slave-labor centers, the other four were devoted almost exclusively to killing. The use of these facilities to carry out the mass annihilation of human beings remains a profound moral atrocity that stands as a stark reminder of the necessity to uphold human rights and dignity against hatred and state-sponsored violence.1