Ravensbrück concentration camp

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Ravensbrück concentration camp was a major Nazi concentration camp in Germany primarily used to imprison, exploit, and murder women and children during the Holocaust.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi concentration camp
women's concentration camp
commemorates victims of Ravensbrück
constructionBegan 1938
country Germany
currentUse memorial site
estimatedNumberOfPrisoners over 130000 women and children
estimatedNumberOfVictims tens of thousands
gasChamberBuilt 1944
hasGasChamber yes
hasPrisonerCategories JehovahsWitnesses
surface form: Jehovah's Witnesses

Jews
Roma people
surface form: Roma and Sinti

asocial prisoners
criminal prisoners
forced laborers from occupied countries
lesbian women
political prisoners
hasPrisonerNationalities French prisoners
German prisoners
Jewish prisoners
Polish prisoners
Roma prisoners
Soviet prisoners
hasPrisonerPopulation children
mostly women
some men
hasSubcamps over 30 subcamps
liberatedBy Red Army
Soviet Union
liberatedOn 30 April 1945
locatedIn Brandenburg
Nazi Germany
locatedNear Schwedtsee lake
location Ravensbrück concentration camp self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ravensbrück, near Fürstenberg/Havel
memorialEstablished 1959
notableFor largest Nazi concentration camp for women
site of Nazi medical experiments on women
opened 1939
operatedBy SS-Totenkopfverbände
Schutzstaffel (SS)
partOf Holocaust
Nazi concentration camp system
primaryFunction extermination through labor
forced labor
imprisonment of women
mass murder
usedFor imprisonment of children
medical experiments on prisoners
slave labor for German industry
usedForForcedLaborFor German armaments industry
Siemens
surface form: Siemens & Halske

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Nazi camp system notableCamp Ravensbrück concentration camp
SS guards operatedAt Ravensbrück concentration camp
Odette Sansom imprisonedAt Ravensbrück concentration camp
SS-Totenkopfverbände operated Ravensbrück concentration camp
Herta Oberheuser employer Ravensbrück concentration camp
Herta Oberheuser workLocation Ravensbrück concentration camp
Herta Oberheuser associatedWith Ravensbrück concentration camp
Nazi deportation of Roma destination Ravensbrück concentration camp
Westerbork transit camp deportationDestination Ravensbrück concentration camp
Ravensbrück concentration camp location Ravensbrück concentration camp self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ravensbrück, near Fürstenberg/Havel
Fürstenberg/Havel near Ravensbrück concentration camp
this entity surface form: Ravensbrück Memorial