Ravensbrück. Ravensbrueck Woman’s Concentration Camp
Ravensbrück or Ravensbrueck (German pronunciation: [ʁaːfənsˈbʁʏk]) was a notorious women’s concentration camp during World War II, located in northern Germany, 90 km north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel).
Construction of the camp began in November 1938 by SS leader Heinrich Himmler and was unusual [...]
Jewish Women During The Holocaust
More then 3 million women and children were killed in concentration camps. This film depicts some of the atrocities performed om women before murdered by the nazi’s
Jewish women, gypsy women, and other women including political dissidents in Germany and in Nazi-occupied countries were sent to concentration camps, forced to work, subjected [...]
Auschwitz Concentration Camp Timeline 1940-1945
AUSCHWITZ CAMP OPENS
May 20, 1940
The Auschwitz I concentration camp opens with the arrival of 30 German prisoners. They are the first prisoners to receive serial numbers in the camp. German authorities will begin the deportation of Polish prisoners to Auschwitz in June 1940. Auschwitz I, the first camp opened in the [...]
Auschwitz February 23, 1943
On February 23, 1943 39 prisoners, boys aged 13 to 17 were brought from Auschwitz II-Birkenau to block 20 at Auschwitz I. They were moved on the pretext that they should participate in a nursing course. In the evening all were killed with phenol heart injections done by the second SDG SS-Unterscharführer [...]
Holocaust 1944 Key Dates
January 22
U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 9417, creating the War Refugee Board. Roosevelt instructs the War Refugee Board to take measures to rescue victims of enemy oppression in imminent danger of death. The activities of the War Refugee Board contribute to saving tens of thousands of Jews from [...]
Deportation To and From Warsaw Ghetto
DEPORTATIONS TO THE WARSAW GHETTO
Between January and March 1941, Jews from smaller communities to the west of Warsaw were deported to the Warsaw ghetto. Between April and July 1942, Jews from the nearby towns east of Warsaw, from Germany, and from German-occupied areas of western Poland were deported there. The [...]