LOCATION | HOLOCAUST |
FURSTENBERG GERMANY | GERMAN-OCCUPIED-POLAND |
KNOWN FOR | N/A |
OPERATIONAL | MAY 1939-APRIL1945 |
INMATES | MOSTLY FEMALE POLITICAL PRISONERS: 48,500 POLISH, 28,000 SOVIET UNION, 20,000 PLUS JEWS |
NUMBER OF INMATES | 130,000-132,000 |
NUMBER OF GAS CHAMBERS | 1 |
KILLED | EST 30,000 – 90,000 DIED OR WERE KILLED |
LIBERATED BY | SOVIET UNION APRIL 30,1945 |
UNKNOWN FACT | Of the female prisoners who passed through the Ravensbrück camp, about 50,000 perished; some 2,200 were killed in the gas chambers. |