Ravensbrück (pronounced [ʁaːvənsˈbʁʏk]) was a Nazi concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, 90 km (56 mi)...
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Ravensbrück concentration camp List of subcamps of Ravensbrück Sachsenhausen concentration camp List of subcamps of Sachsenhausen Stutthof concentration camp List...
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Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for Women, p. 141 [1] [permanent dead link] Simone Erpel, Im Gefolge der SS: Aufseherinnen des Frauen-KZ Ravensbrück :...
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forced into these brothels came mainly from the women-only Ravensbrück concentration camp, except for Auschwitz, which used its own prisoners. In combination...
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Hamburg Ravensbrück trials were seven trials for war crimes during the Holocaust against camp officials from the Ravensbrück concentration camp that the...
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The Uckermark concentration camp was a small German concentration camp for young women near the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Fürstenberg/Havel, Germany...
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of death unknown) was a Nazi German concentration camp guard and chief warden at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was tried for her role in the...
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closed in May 1939, when the Ravensbrück concentration camp for women was opened, which replaced Lichtenburg as the main camp for female prisoners. Details...
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Elisabeth Volkenrath (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
she volunteered for service in a concentration camp. In October 1941 she began working at Ravensbrück concentration camp as a guard. In March 1942, she...
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Dorothea Binz (category Female guards in Nazi concentration camps)
1920 – 2 May 1947) was a Nazi German officer and supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp during the Holocaust. She was executed for war crimes on May...
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Johann Schwarzhuber (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
Strebel, Bernhard (2003). Das KZ Ravensbrück: Geschichte eines Lagerkomplexes [KZ Ravensbrück: History of a concentration camp complex] (in German). Verlag...
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Johanna Langefeld (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
was a Nazi German guard and supervisor at three Nazi concentration camps: Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, and Auschwitz. She was arrested and imprisoned for...
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Irma Grese (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
Ida Grese (7 October 1923 – 13 December 1945) was a Nazi concentration camp guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and served as warden of the women's section...
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Juana Bormann (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
needed] In 1939, she was assigned to oversee a work crew at the new Ravensbrück women's camp near Berlin. In March 1942, Bormann was one of a handful of women...
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Margot Dreschel (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
arrived at Ravensbrück concentration camp to receive guard training. At first she was an Aufseherin, a lower-ranking female guard at Ravensbrück camp in charge...
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Carolyn Ferriday (section The "Rabbits" of Ravensbrück)
women subjected to medical experimentation by the Nazis at Ravensbrück concentration camp, to the American public. Caroline Ferriday was born on July...
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Fritz Suhren (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
the hanging. Suhren was later commandant of the women's camp at Ravensbrück concentration camp. His policy upon taking command in 1942 was to exterminate...
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Max Koegel (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
officer who served as a commander at Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, Majdanek and Flossenbürg concentration camps. In 1946 he was arrested for his role in The Holocaust...
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Herta Oberheuser (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. For her role in the Holocaust, she was sentenced to 20...
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of subcamps of the Ravensbrück concentration camp complex built and run by Nazi Germany during World War II. By 1944 Ravensbrück consisted of a system...
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Corrie ten Boom (category Ravensbrück concentration camp survivors)
home. They were caught, and she was arrested and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, is a biography that...
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the women inmates had been sent to Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, and the men to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. On 26 October 1944, Scottish troops...
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Emma Zimmer (category Auschwitz concentration camp personnel)
at the Lichtenburg concentration camp, the Ravensbrück concentration camp and the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination/concentration camp for several years...
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concentration camp badges, primarily triangles, were part of the system of identification in German camps. They were used in the concentration camps in...
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OCLC 36524125. Saidel, Rochelle G. (2006). The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. Madison, Wis.: Terrace Books. p. 76. ISBN 9780299198640. OCLC 65204194...
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many trained at Flossenburg, two at Gross Rosen and some in Ravensbrück concentration camp before they arrived at Helmbrechts. The male guards were mostly...
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Fritz Fischer (medical doctor) (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
medical doctor who performed medical atrocities on inmates of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. He was tried and convicted of war crimes and crimes against...
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Jane Bernigau (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
system of Gross-Rosen women's satellite camps. In May 1939, Bernigau was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp as a guard. In September 1942 (or 1943)...
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Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, pronounced [kɔntsɛntʁaˈtsi̯oːnsˌlaːɡɐ ˈʔaʊʃvɪts] ; also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz)...
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Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Unlike other concentration camps, it was located...
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