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Jan 27, 2019 · These pictures show the brutal and inhumane reality of life as an Auschwitz prisoner and the strength of survivors who, years later, returned to the former concentration camp as a brave reminder that its history must never again be repeated.
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- Who Was Sent to Ravensbrück?
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- Medical Experimentation and The Women Who Ran The Concentration Camp
- The Final Days and The Liberation of Ravensbrück
World War II saw 130,000 female prisoners pass through the gates of Ravensbrück — most of whom never walked back out. What's surprising is that a relatively small number of those women were Jewish. Surviving records suggest that during the camp's operating years (May of 1939 through April of 1945), only 26,000 of the inmates were Jewish. So who wer...
When Ravensbrück was built on the orders of Heinrich Himmler in 1938, it was almost picturesque. Conditions were good, and some prisoners, coming from the poverty of the ghettos, even expressed wonder at the manicured lawns, peacock-filled birdhouses, and flowerbeds lining the great square. But behind the pretty façade was a dark secret — one Himml...
One of the most confusing things about Ravensbrück is why it existed at all. Other camps housed both female and male prisoners. So why bother to create an all-women camp? Some have suggested that Ravensbrück was created in part as a training ground for female prison guards, known as Aufseherinnen. Women could not belong to the SS, but they could ho...
For much of the war, the Ravensbrück facility did not have a gas chamber. It had outsourced its mass executions to other camps, like the nearby Auschwitz. That changed in 1944 when Auschwitz announced it had reached maximum capacity and closed its gates to new arrivals. So Ravensbrück constructed its own gas chamber, a hastily built facility that w...
Ravensbrück concentration camp and sub-camps within Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen housed women prisoners during World War II. During the last year of the war, thousands of Jewish women were transferred from Ravensbrück and Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen. Femininity within the camps was incredibly complex.
The largest women’s camp was Ravensbrück (near Berlin), where nearly 120,000 women from across Europe were sent. An estimated 50,000 women died there between 1939 and 1945. A special women’s section was also created in Auschwitz-Birkenau, where 34,000 women died between 1942 and 1943.
Clandestine photograph, taken by a German civilian, of Dachau concentration camp prisoners on a death march south through a village on the way to Wolfratshausen. Germany, between April 26 and 30, 1945.
Dec 20, 2018 · In these Holocaust victims pictures, the women’s heads are shaved. At first, it was a practice the concentration camps' overseers only pushed on the Jews, but in later years, the policy was extended to include all new inmates.
Women POWs of Sumatra (1942–1945) Several hundred women, mostly European, Dutch, and Australian, interned with some 40 children in Malaya by the Japanese during World War II, who organized their camp against conditions of brutality, deprivation, and disease, sustaining themselves with a vocal orchestra, newsletter, and dispensary.
