Directory of Ravensbrück Resources

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Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp located 90 km north of Berlin. It was founded in 1938. It was unusual because it was a camp primarily for women. It had 70 sub-camps used for slave labor ranging from the Baltic Sea to Bavaria.

Resources in This Category

• Jewish Virtual Library: Ravensbrück

  http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/ravetoc.html
  Information on prisoner experiments, photographs, and timeline.

• Ravensbruck

  http://individual.utoronto.ca/jarekg/Ravensbruck/
  Contains the detailed story of 74 Polish political prisoners who were the subjects of medical experiments.

• Ravensbrück (Germany)

  http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/RavensbruckEng.html
  Contains description of life at camp, and a few photos.

• Ravensbrück Memorial

  http://www.ravensbrueck.de/mgr/
  Includes information, current events, and educational programs.

• The Women of Ravensbruck: Portraits of Courage

  http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/ravensbruck.html
  A letter documenting the struggles of the women.

• Virtual Reality Movies: Ravensbrück

  http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/VR/ravensbr.htm
  Contains several movies with short descriptions.

• Voices from Ravensbrück

  http://pat-binder.de/ravensbrueck/en/home.html
  Contains poems by prisoners of the women's concentration camp.

• Wikipedia: Ravensbrück Concentration Camp

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravensbr%C3%BCck_concentration_camp
  Contains history of the camp, and list of guards tried for war crimes.

Related Categories

• Home > Regional > Europe > Germany > States > Brandenburg > Localities > Fürstenberg

Other Languages

• German

 

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