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Ravensbrück werd in de herfst van 1938 gebouwd door gedetineerden uit het concentratiekamp Sachsenhausen. Bij aanvang bestond het kamp uit veertien barakken voor gevangenen, twee barakken voor zieken, een barak voor de keuken en sanitaire voorzieningen en een extra strenge gevangenis met tachtig cellen. Daarmee was het kamp 'geschikt' voor ...
The first transport of Polish women arrived on 29 September 1939. A total of 42,000 Polish women were held in Ravensbrück. As in other concentration camps, at Ravensbrück too prisoners had different‑coloured triangular badges on their clothing, depending on the grounds for their arrest, with their prison number below the badge.
In 1944, more than 70,000 women would pass through the camp, most of them staying there for a relatively short amount of time. They were usually sent forward to one of Ravensbrück’s 34 sub-camps, some of which were quite far away. In 1944, the relatively permanent inmates of Ravensbrück numbered 26,700.
History. Ravensbrück concentration camp, built by the SS in 1939, was the largest women’s concentration camp in the German Reich. After its liberation in April 1945, the Soviet Army took over much of the former concentration camp and used it as a barracks. From 1948, former prisoners attempted to establish a place of remembrance.
Ravensbrück was built and opened as a women’s concentration camp only after the large all-male camps of Sachsenhausen (1936), Buchenwald (1937), Flossenbürg (1938) and Mauthausen (1938). On 27 May 1939, 970 female inmates were registered in Ravensbrück. Just as the other camps making up the concentration camp system, the women’s camp had ...
Ravensbrück concentration camp. ... No other women were executed as result of the other Ravensbrück trials although others received death sentences which were later commuted to prison terms. The bodies of the first 93 executed up to 1947 were originally buried at Hameln but transferred to Wehl cemetery in 1954.
Ravensbrück was Nazi Germany's largest female-only camp. More than 120,000 women from all over Europe were imprisoned here. Many were resistance fighters or political opponents.
