Persecution

• Article by Michèl Admiraal
• Published on September 18th, 2024

Concentration camp Ravensbrück

Women and Ravensbrück are closely connected but Ravensbrück was more than just a concentration camp for women. In the course of the years it was expanded into a complex consisting of the women’s camp, a men’s camp, the Jugendschutzlager Uckermarck and 42 satellite camps. It was the first camp in which men as well as women were imprisoned. From the opening on May 15, 1939 until the liberation on April 30, 1945, some 132,000 women and children, 20,000 men and 1,100 Jugendschutzlager girls from over 40 countries were registered. During that period, some 28,000 people died in the various locations. An estimated 20% of all female prisoners, some 26,000 was Jewish.