Ravensbruck Concentration Camp

SS authorities establish a small men's camp adjacent to the Ravensbrück main camp.

Soviet forces liberate the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Ravensbruck Concentration Camp (for women)

May 1939

April 1941

April 1945

April 29-30 1945

History

SS guards force about 20,000 female prisoners, as well as most of the remaining male prisoners, on a brutal and forced evacuation on foot toward northern Mecklenberg.

The SS transfers 900 women from the Lichtenburg women's concentration camp to Ravensbrück concentration camp. They are the first women in Ravensbrück.

German authorities begin construction of the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

May 1939

November 1938

Woman working on labor