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Ravensbrück concentration camp

Women's concentration camp in Nazi Germany

Ravensbrück

Ravensbrück

LocationFürstenberg/Havel, Germany
Commandant
OperationalMay 1939 – April 1945
Number of gas chambers1
InmatesMostly female political prisoners, 48,500 Polish; 28,000 Soviet Union, 20,000-plus Jews
Number of inmates130,000 to 132,000[2]
KilledUnknown; 30,000 to 90,000 died or were killed.
Liberated bySoviet 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