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Ravensbrück (pronounced [ˌʁaːvn̩sˈbʁʏk]) was a Nazi concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, 90 km (56 mi) north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel).
Ravensbrück (pronounced [ʁaːvənsˈbʁʏk]) was a German concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, 90 km (56 mi) north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel). The largest single national group consisted of 40,000 Polish women.
The following, is the list 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 of between 31, [ 1 ] and 40, [ 2 ] and up to 70 subcamps, [ 3 ] spread out from Austria to the Baltic Sea, with over 70,000 predominantly female prisoners.
Herta Oberheuser (15 May 1911 – 24 January 1978) was a German Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. [1]
Irma Ilse Ida Grese [a] (7 October 1923 – 13 December 1945) was a Nazi concentration camp Helferin at Ravensbrück, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen.She has been widely known as the "Hyena of Auschwitz" and the "Beast of Belsen" for the atrocities she committed in Birkenau.
Dorothea "Theodora" Binz (16 March 1920 – 2 May 1947) [1] was a Nazi German officer and supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp during the Holocaust.She was known as one of the most brutal, ruthless and sadistic overseers and in the Nazi system. [2]
The first Ravensbrück trial, 1947. [1] The sentencing, Hamburg, Rotherbaum The Hamburg Ravensbrück trials were seven trials for war crimes during the Holocaust against camp officials from the Ravensbrück concentration camp that the British authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Hamburg after the end of World War II. [1]
The Vice-Presidents is Hanna Nowakowska of Poland, Jeanine Bochat of Germany is Secraitary General and her deputy Czech Šárka Kadlecová. Marie-France Cabeza-Mernet, from France, is the Treasurer with Françoise Marchelidon her deputy. Margarita Català from Spain is auditor.