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    the inmate population of Ravensbrück had grown to about 10,000. The greatest number of prisoners at one time in Ravensbrück was probably about 45,000...
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    The Hamburg Ravensbrück trials were seven trials for war crimes during the Holocaust against camp officials from the Ravensbrück concentration camp that...
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    des Frauen-KZ Ravensbrück: Begleitband zur Ausstellung, Simone Erpel, p. 177 Thea Therese Miesl, married Wallner, was trained at Ravensbrück for four weeks...
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    of Neuengamme Niederhagen concentration camp Ravensbrück concentration camp List of subcamps of Ravensbrück Sachsenhausen concentration camp List of subcamps...
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  • Ravensbrück (pronounced [ʁaːvənsˈbʁʏk]) was a German concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, 90 km (56 mi)...
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    Herta Oberheuser (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
    convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. For her role in the Holocaust, she was sentenced...
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    a guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz before becoming head wardress at Bergen-Belsen Johanna Bormann was a guard at Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, Auschwitz-Birkenau...
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    Irma Grese (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
    located near Ravensbrück, the all-female concentration camp. In 1942, aged 19, she became an Aufseherin (guard or overseer) at Ravensbrück. She transferred...
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    Dorothea Binz (category Hamburg Ravensbrück trials executions)
    March 1920 – 2 May 1947) was a Nazi German officer and supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp during the Holocaust. She was known as one of the...
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  • Fritz Suhren (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
    perform 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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  • During The Holocaust, people imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos suffered from starvation and malnutrition. Food and recipes were a frequent...
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  • Michelangelo in Ravensbrück: One Woman's War against the Nazis is a memoir by Karolina Lanckorońska, a World War II resistance fighter and postwar historian...
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    Johann Schwarzhuber (category Hamburg Ravensbrück trials executions)
    and he received his final deployment to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in January 1945. In Ravensbrück, Schwarzhuber was directly responsible for the...
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  • Margot Dreschel (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
    Dreschel arrived at Ravensbrück concentration camp to receive guard training. She initially held the position Aufseherin at Ravensbrück, the basic role of...
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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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    Fritz Fischer (medical doctor) (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
    German medical doctor who performed medical atrocities on inmates of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. He was tried and convicted of war crimes and crimes...
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  • Johanna Langefeld (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
    guard and supervisor at three Nazi concentration camps: Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück, and Auschwitz. She was arrested and imprisoned for her role in the Holocaust...
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  • Godmother to Ravensbrück Survivors -". Connecticut History. 2021-12-26. Retrieved 2023-08-26. "Caroline Ferriday". Saving the Rabbits of Ravensbrück....
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    in the women's concentration camp at Ravensbrück RLS – Siemens & Halske im Frauenkonzentrationslager Ravensbrück Archived 22 April 2016 at the Wayback...
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    Karl Gebhardt (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
    medical atrocities performed on inmates of the concentration camps at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz. These experiments were an attempt to defend his approach...
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    Dachau Mauthausen Ravensbrück Flossenbürg Sachsenhausen Buchenwald Neuengamme Auschwitz Majdanek Kraków-Płaszów Natzweiler-Struthof Stutthof Bergen-Belsen...
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    Vera Salvequart (category Hamburg Ravensbrück trials executions)
    at Ravensbrück concentration camp from December 1944 to 1945. In 1947, she was executed for war crimes during the Holocaust following the Ravensbrück Trials...
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  • Mary Lindell (category Ravensbrück concentration camp survivors)
    automobile, shot in the head, imprisoned twice, and captured and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Nazi Germany. Her son Maurice was captured and...
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  • Elfriede Rinkel (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
    (née Huth, 14 July 1922 – July 2018) was a German Nazi guard at the Ravensbrück concentration camp from June 1944 until April 1945, known for using an...
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    Violette Szabo (category People who died in Ravensbrück concentration camp)
    to Ravensbrück concentration camp for women where 50,000 (out of a total population of 130,000) were to die during the war. They reached Ravensbrück in...
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  • This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women is a 2015 book by Sarah Helm about the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. Yvonne...
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    Elisabeth Volkenrath (category Ravensbrück concentration camp personnel)
    service in a concentration camp. In October 1941 she began working at Ravensbrück concentration camp as a guard. In March 1942, she was sent to Auschwitz...
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    female SS guard (Aufseherin); these women were brought to Buchenwald from Ravensbrück in 1941 and forced into sexual slavery at the camp's brothel. The SS...
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    Carmen Mory (category Ravensbrück concentration camp survivors)
    for Nazi Germany and Kapo in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was sentenced to death in the Hamburg Ravensbrück trials in 1947. Carmen Castro Mory...
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    Ruth Neudeck (category Hamburg Ravensbrück trials executions)
    Ruth Neudeck or Ruth Closius-Neudeck. In July 1944, she arrived at the Ravensbrück concentration camp to begin her training to be a camp guard. Neudeck...
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