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Though the camps do not serve the same purpose that they did in the war (thank God!), there are many camps that are still standing as memorials to those who lost their lives there and as reminders of the atrocities that took place there so that they may never happen again.
Some of these are:
Auschwitz (Poland)
Mauthausen (Austria)
Treblinka (Poland)
Theresienstadt (Terezin) (Czech Republic)
Buchenwald (Germany)
Dachau (Germany)
Flossenburg (Germany)
Sachsenhausen (Germany)
Stutthof (Poland)
Majdanek (Poland)
Bergen-Belsen (Germany)
Ravensbruck (Germany)
Chelmno (Poland)
These camps existed for various reasons (they were not all extermination camps) and exist currently in various states: some maintain parts of the original camps, some have models, and some are simply memorials at camp sites.
Parts of Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau have been preserved as major museums.
Note. If you are planning to visit any of the former camps listed above it is best to check out beforehand what is actually there. In many cases there is little more than a memorial, while some are large museums.
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Are there camps still up to this day?
The camps are not in use today. They are just historical places. A few of them are still up. one is Auscwitz.
Are there still concentration camps that people are tortured in today?
There are no concentration camps today. There are still many people in the world who are suffering for various reasons, and there are many refugees in refugee camps, but there are no concentration camps.
How many camps were built during world war 2?
There were thousands of camps all over Germany a long time before they started building the true death camps. If you tap in concentration camps into any web search engine, it will show you a map of the camps. They were not all death camps, but were camps for Germans who were not Nazi's, and were used for, what they called 're-training'. IF you were released, and still able to think or even walk, you made sure you followed the rules and joined the 'Nazi Party' and kept your thoughts, to yourself in future.
In World War 2 many German camps tattooed there prisoners. Is there records of what numbers relate to the prisoners?
This was only done at the Auschwitz group of camps. The records of numbers and names still exist.
What does blokova mean?
A prisoner in charge at the camps (concentration camps, death camps, forced labor camps) during the Holocaust. These people were typically non-Jewish (Jews were treated the worst in the camps).
