The International Ravensbrück Committee (IRC) is an association of former prisoners of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, the largest concentration camp...
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concentration camps Hamburg Ravensbrück trials Holocaust memorial landscapes in Germany International Ravensbrück Committee White Buses If This Is a Woman...
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Committee Mittelbau-Dora International Neuengamme Committee International Ravensbrück Committee International Sachsenhausen Committee KLB Club Jean-Aimé Dolidier...
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, and is a three-time Nobel Prize laureate...
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camps Dachau, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück, and Sachsenhausen. Maurice Rossel was sent to Berlin as a delegate of the International Red Cross; he visited Theresienstadt...
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Hermine Braunsteiner (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
April 19, 1999) was an Austrian SS Helferin and female camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps. She was the first Nazi war criminal...
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Sigrid Jacobeit (section Ravensbrück Memorial)
member of the International Ravensbrück Committee. She succeeded in establishing personal connections with survivors of the Ravensbrück women's, men's...
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concentration camps like Dachau and Ravensbrück, exploiting prisoners for labor. The Demeter name was adopted internationally. In Australia, two members of...
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Emmi Handke (category Ravensbrück concentration camp survivors)
General Secretary of the International Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Committee. She worked with the powerful Party Central Committee of the German Democratic...
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Henriette Bie Lorentzen (category Ravensbrück concentration camp survivors)
She chaired the Norwegian Ravensbrück committee for several years and was involved with the International Ravensbrück Committee. She was interviewed in...
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Sisters in Resistance (category Ravensbrück concentration camp)
Anise documents the use of poison gas in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, and Geneviève leads an international movement to help the poor. The film was produced...
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a member of the International Ravensbrück Committee, and was its president from 1999 to 2015. In 2015, Chalut returned to Ravensbrück in Germany to take...
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The Holocaust (section International reactions)
to non-action. During the war the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) raised $70 million and in the years after the war it raised $300...
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The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27...
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Studies of the Vatican archives and international diplomatic correspondence continue. The International Committee of the Red Cross did relatively little...
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concentration camp. Siemens exploited the forced labour of women deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp; a Siemens factory was located in front of the camp...
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Uckermark concentration camp (category Ravensbrück concentration camp)
upper age limit were transferred to the Ravensbrück women's camp. Camp administration was provided by the Ravensbrück camp. In its early years, the head overseer...
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Esther Béjarano (category International Auschwitz Committee members)
the International Auschwitz Committee and honorary chairperson of the Union of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime. She was active for the Committee until...
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Dorothea Binz (1920–1947), overseer at Ravensbrück concentration camp, sentenced to death at the Hamburg Ravensbrück trials Paul Blobel (1894–1951), Einsatzgruppe...
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Margarete Buber-Neumann (category Ravensbrück concentration camp survivors)
being freed. She was then detained with other "political prisoners" in Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she became friends with Orli Wald and Milena...
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White Buses (category International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement)
were evacuated from Ravensbrück to Denmark and then on to Sweden. On 28 April, Captain Ankarcrona led a column from the International Red Cross to the camp...
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Heinz Keßler (category Members of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany)
military tribunal and his mother was arrested and imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. He wouldn't see her again until June 1945, shortly...
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of the clean Wehrmacht Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück, and Sachsenhausen. Not to be confused with SS-Sonderkommandos, ad hoc...
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fighter in World War II and survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps. Her autobiographical account of the Holocaust in...
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Nationale des Anciens Combattants de la Résistance France - Comité International de Ravensbrück France - Amicale des Anciens Guerrilleros Espanols en France...
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1993; Israel Gutman, Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, 1995. American Jewish Committee, Harry Schneiderman and Julius B. Maller, eds. Archived 2010-12-12 at...
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In 1946, Maršálek married Anna Vavak, who had been imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She died in 1959. Drawing on his intimate knowledge...
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Hetty Voûte (category Ravensbrück concentration camp survivors)
detention camp at Herzogenbusch in Vught. She was then later deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany. Surviving until the camp was liberated...
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Hanna Sturm (category Ravensbrück concentration camp survivors)
spent the next few years in German concentration camps, but emerged from Ravensbrück camp on 30 April 1945 having survived. Many did not. She wrote an autobiographical...
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January 1945, sterilization experiments were conducted at Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and other places by Carl Clauberg. The purpose of these experiments...
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