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9 unusual facts about Ravensbrück concentration camp


Anita Leocádia Prestes

Her mother Olga was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp and from there to an experimental extermination camp set up at an old psychiatric hospital in Bernburg Euthanasia Centre in 1942, where she was gassed.

Elfriede Rinkel

Elfriede Lina Rinkel (née Huth, born July 14, 1922, Leipzig, Germany) was a guard at the Ravensbrück concentration camp from June 1944 until April 1945 handling an SS-trained guard dog.

Elizabeth E. Wein

A followup novel, Rose Under Fire, also set in World War II, tells the story of an Air Transport Auxiliary pilot who is captured and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Erika Bergmann

In 1943 Bergmann arrived at Ravensbrück where she received her initial training and first assignment.

Hildegard Neumann

Neumann came to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in October 1944, where she became an Oberaufseherin (Chief Wardress) soon after.

János Pilinszky

Adrift in Germany, he witnessed several camps before he could return to Hungary after the end of the war, most notably the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Michel Didisheim

Claire Maigret de Priches (1906–1983), as an Allied agent and member of the Belgian Resistance, was taken to Ravensbrück German concentration camp for female prisoners in Mecklenburg, northwest of Berlin, established in 1936.

Sisters in Resistance

All four were arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and sent to Ravensbrück, an entirely female concentration camp.

Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz

On January 18, 1945, non-Jewish girls in the orchestra, including several Poles, were evacuated to Ravensbrück concentration camp.


Arnold Strippel

Strippel then served in Majdanek near Lublin Poland, Ravensbruck, then at Peenemünde on the Usedom peninsula, in the Karlshagen II forced labor camp, the site of V-2 rocket production and launches.

Dorothea Binz

Dorothea Binz (March 16, 1920 – May 2, 1947) was an SS supervisor at Ravensbrück concentration camp during the Second World War.

Élisabeth de Rothschild

Élisabeth de Rothschild (née de Chambure) (March 9, 1902 – Ravensbrück concentration camp, March 23, 1945) was a member by marriage of the wine-making branch of the Rothschild family.

Juana Bormann

In 1939, she was assigned to oversee a work crew at the new Ravensbrück women's camp near Berlin.

Luise Brunner

Luise Brunner was the chief oberaufseherin (chief guard) of Ravensbrück concentration camp from December 1944 to April 1945.

Przysposobienie Wojskowe Kobiet

Unlike civilians from Warsaw, they were not sent to the concentration camps such as Ravensbrück and Stutthof, but to special POW camps, operated by the Wehrmacht, mainly Stalag VI-C in Oberlangen and Oflag IX-C in Molsdorf.

Yvonne Baseden

On 25 August 1944, she was transferred to a prison in Saarbrücken and then to Ravensbrück concentration camp on 4 September of the same year.


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Maja Berezowska

After her return to Poland and the outbreak of World War II she was imprisoned at Pawiak, and later - with the death sentence - sent and imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp.