JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. KONZENTRATIONSLAGER RAVENSBRÜCK. GERMANY
Shalom! World. Never forget! Never more! The Ravensbrück Women's Concentration Camp (1939-1945) In 1939, the SS had the largest women's concentration camp in German Reich built in the Prussian village of Ravensbrück, not far from Furstenberg, a health resort that historically had belinged to Mecklenburg. The first female prisioners from Lichtenburg concentration camp were transferred to Ravensbrück in the spring of 1939. In april 1941, a men's camp was added, wich was also under the command of the women's camp's commandant, and in June 1942, the immediately adjacent Uckermark "juvenile protective custody camp" was taken in operation. The women's concentration camp was continually expanded until 1945. The SS had more and more huts erected to house prisioners, and in the autumm of 1944, a large tent was added. Within the camp's perimeter wall, an industrial complex comprising several production facilities was established, where f...