RAVENSBRUCK CONCENTRATION CAMP

LOCATIONHOLOCAUST
FURSTENBERG GERMANYGERMAN-OCCUPIED-POLAND
KNOWN FORN/A
OPERATIONALMAY 1939-APRIL1945
INMATES MOSTLY FEMALE POLITICAL PRISONERS: 48,500 POLISH, 28,000 SOVIET UNION, 20,000 PLUS JEWS
NUMBER OF INMATES130,000-132,000
NUMBER OF GAS CHAMBERS1
KILLEDEST 30,000 – 90,000 DIED OR WERE KILLED
LIBERATED BYSOVIET UNION APRIL 30,1945
UNKNOWN FACTOf the female prisoners who passed through the Ravensbrück camp, about 50,000 perished; some 2,200 were killed in the gas chambers.