Number of Jews sent to each concentration camp after the Kristallnacht pogrom 1938

Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) was the series of pogroms carried out against Jewish people, their property, and places of worship, across all of Germany and Austria, and parts of Czechoslovakia on November 9 and 10, 1938. Following the pogroms, the Gestapo ordered that 20,000 to 30,000 Jewish men should be arrested, and orders were given to select those as healthy as possible to perform hard labor. By November 16, upwards of 30,000 Jews were then taken from their homes, workplaces, or from the street, and then transferred to the concentration camps at Dachau (near Munich), Buchenwald (near Weimar), and Sachsenhausen (near Berlin). At the camps, these prisoners were subjected to humiliation and beatings, and at least 383 deaths were recorded in Dachau and Buchenwald through violence, exhaustion, disease, and suicide. Despite a commonly circulated figure of 91 fatalities for the night of the pogroms, these camp deaths are now often included in the final death toll of Kristallnacht, along with suicides. The majority of these prisoners were released by early 1939, generally on the condition that they forfeit their remaining wealth and leave Germany as soon as possible. The events of Kristallnacht and the mass arrests made thereafter are now seen as a major precursor to the Holocaust.