Ravensbruck Concentration Camp Ravensbruck was a women’s concentration camp located in northern Germany. It was open from 1939 to 1945 and held more than 132,000 prisoners throughout this time. The prisoners were sorted into categories, had poor living conditions, worked long days, and were often killed. Ravensbruck Concentration Camp was a place where many people lost their lives during World War II and the brutalities of the camp had a lasting impact on the victim’s lives. At the arrival at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp, prisoners were placed into categories. Political prisoners wore red triangles, Jehovah’s Witnesses wore purple triangles, asocials wore black triangles, and common criminals wore green triangles. Jews wore a yellow triangle, but also wore a red triangle if they were a political prisoner. this formed the Jewish Star of David. A letter inside the triangle symbolized the nationality of the prisoner. Prisoners came from countries such as Poland, Germany, Austria, the Soviet Union, Britain and America. …show more content…
By the end of the war, conditions were terrible. Barracks built to sleep 250 women slept up to 2,000 women. Three to four women shared each bed. Many did not even have a bed and were left lying on the floor with no blanket. There was a plague of lice in the barracks. All the women were to cut off their hair because of this. There was also danger of getting disease from the water. In each barrack, there was one washroom and three toilets. The toilets had no doors and were in very poor conditions. The women were awake for roll call at 4:00 a.m. After everyone was accounted for, they were sent off to work long days. All these conditions made life in the barracks unbearable and many people
Prisoners that arrived at the Gross-Rosen concentration camp came mostly from Poland or Hungary. When they arrived, they had to take off their clothes. Prisoners were forced to work in the quarry. They had to wear a yellow Star of David outlined in black that said Jew on it. In October 1941 the SS transferred about 3,000 soviet paws for execution
In the beginning of 1936, the Nazis established larger, permanent camps to replace the others. Ravensbruck, was a special camp for women, which was opened in 1939. In June 1936, Reich SS leader Himmler assumed the newly created position of chief of the German Police and set about to expand his empire. Germany was moving toward a war economy. Production was rapidly expanding and labor was in short supply.
This camp was made in the end of 1938 but one year later at the end of 1939 there was approximately 2,290 people already there. In Ravensbruck there was several different cultures of women from other places than just Germany. Women from about 40 different nations stayed at Ravensbruck! It was a hard time for everyone to get along with others have differing opinions than you, and many others spoke different languages than you. Now since after this happened there is a memorial.
Ravensbruck was a concentration camp during the Holocaust that still stands today. It was mostly used to hold Jewish women but also many others. But, it was not one of the most well-known camps of the Holocaust. Although it was located near many cities that had camps that we know of today, its existence was kept from the public. I am writing this to tell you about the people, location, and the reasons why Ravensbruck is not one of the well-known concentration camps of the Holocaust.
In modern-day Germany, the Ravensbruck concentration camp lays dormant among the bustling movement of modern society. However, through the faded echoes of agonized screams, along with the phantom scent of stale, decayed flesh that wafts throughout vacant halls, the legacy of Ravensbruck’s nefarious past lives on (jewishvirtuallibrary.org). The sinister legacy the Ravensbruck concentration camp left behind is a shallow reflection of what the "lapins" of Ravensbruck, 86 young female prisoners were subjected to. The medical experiments performed on the women of Ravensbruck were inhumane.
I chose the concentration camp Treblinka, it was established in November of 1941. With the support of the SS and Police Leader for District Warsaw in “Generalgouvernement”, SS and police authorities established a forced-labor camp for Jews (Treblinka). Later on it became Treblinka I. In addition to it being a labor camp, it also served as a “Labor Education Camp” for non-Jewish Poles, who the Germans believed to have violated labor discipline. Jewish and Polish prisoners were put into separate compounds of the camp, and deployed at forced labor. The killing center known as Treblinka II was completed in July of 1942, about a mile from the Treblinka I, and a rail spur was added that led from Treblinka I to Treblinka II. The Treblinka camp
An extermination camp in Poland built in 1942 in addition to the pre-existing labor camp that killed over 900,000 prisoners. It served as a Nazi killing center for deported citizens from ghettos and other camps that became overpopulated. It was a specifically chosen location due to it's an environment it was able to conceal the murders.
The overcrowding and the horrible hygienic conditions did not help stopping the spread of epidemic typhus. Lice was also a large problem in the camp that spread easily and tortured the prisoners. The doctors at the camp would compose medical experiments on Polish women where they would use them as guinea pigs to simulate battlefield wounds to the legs, or would inject them with sulfanilamide. Most of the women that were tested on were either killed in the process or murdered afterward, and the lucky ones who survived were severely crimped or scarred. Pregnant women who were in the camp either had abortions implemented on them or if they were Jewish, would be sent to the gas chambers.
There used to be places that were known for torture, forced labor, and murder. People were dragged out of their own homes to be brought there. These places were called concentration camps. They were the largest Nazi killing centers and they took the lives of over a million Jews. The camps are an important part of history that we will never forget.
Prisoners then received a black and white striped uniform, with an identification emblem sewn on to the upper left side of their shirts and jackets. These badges were colored inverted triangles, used to let officers know what offense the prisoners were placed in the camp for. Immigrants triangles were blue, criminals were green, homosexuals were pink, political prisoners were red, gypsies were brown, and Jehovah’s Witnesses were purple. Jewish people had to wear a yellow Star of David instead of an identification triangle, but if they were charged on more than one offense, they would be made to wear a yellow triangle with a colored inverted triangle on top of it, forming the Star of David, but also showing the other offense through the color coded
Ravensbruck the concentration camp that was mostly filled with womens it is located in northern Germany, 56 miles north of Berlin. The SS started building the Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1939, after the closure of Lichtenburg concentration camp in 1935, the Ravensbruck concentration camp was the only main concentration camp, opposed to subcamps. In November, 1939 the SS authorities transferred about 500 male prisoners from sachsenhausen concentration camp and 900 women prisoners from the Lichtenburg concentration camp to construct Ravensbruck concentration camp. And also, Ravensbruck camp is about only 56 minutes away from sachsenhausen concentration camp. The Ravensbruck concentration camp was the largest concentration cap for women
Auschwitz was made in 1940, it was the largest Nazis concentration and dead camp made . After Auschwitz was made some more concentration camp where made . Many people never gave up and had a belief that one day they would be free “Stay strong stay positive and never give up ( By -Roy T.Bennett ).There where a lot of different people in the concentration camps like Jews, Gypsy, Germans, Irish, also Poland people who lived closed from the camp.(title) Auschwitz -Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.
The camp consisted of three sectors: the SS segment, the administration section and the prisoner area. The prisoner’s area made up of five fields with wooden barracks as the accommodation for inmates. Because of the poor construction, sanitation, and overcrowded population, the death rate was high. The shortage of water, food, clothes and medicine made for even worse conditions. One of the fields was a camp for women, which helped living conditions a little. There were intentions for a camp for the children, however, this never happened, children were already prisoners of the camp.
According to dictionary.com, “concentration Camps are guarded compounds for the detention or imprisonment of aliens, members of minorities and political opponents”. In Germany, the concentration camps where away that the Nazi soldiers could execute all Jews and anyone that went against them or posed a threat to the Germans. In 1933-1945, these camps were placed all over Europe. There were seven camps during World War II such as Dachau, Buchenwald, and the largest and well known camp Auschwitz.
Have you ever heard of concentration camps?Well if you haven't now i'm going to tell you all about these camps and many facts about them.Their was many of these camps around germany and even outside of germany.These camps were not you're normal nice summer camps they were camps that were basically jails.Mostly jews would be thrown into these camps.Where they spent most of their lives or how long they were made to stay for.Any age group could go into one of these camp.They lasted quite a few years from 1933-1945 thats a long time!