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Ravensbrück concentration camp
Women's concentration camp in Nazi Germany
| Ravensbrück | |
|---|---|
Ravensbrück | |
| Location | Fürstenberg/Havel, Germany |
| Commandant | |
| Operational | May 1939 – April 1945 |
| Number of gas chambers | 1 |
| Inmates | Mostly female political prisoners, 48,500 Polish; 28,000 Soviet Union, 20,000-plus Jews |
| Number of inmates | 130,000 to 132,000[2] |
| Killed | Unknown; 30,000 to 90,000 died or were killed. |
| Liberated by | Soviet Union, 30 April 1945 |
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).
The camp memorial's estimated figure of 132,000 women who were in the camp during the war includes about 48,500 from Poland, 28,000 from the Soviet Union, almost 24,000 from Germany and Austria, nearly 8,000 from France, almost 2,000 from