Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück
Museum in Fürstenberg/Havel, Germany
Ravensbrück (German: [ˌʁaːvn̩sˈbʁʏk]) was a Nazi German concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in Northern Germany, 90 km (56 mi) north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel). The camp memorial's estimated figure of 132,000 women who were in the camp during the war includes about 48,500 from Poland, 28,000 from the Soviet Union, almost 24,000 from Germany and Austria, nearly 8,000 from France, almost 2,000 from Belgium, and thousands from other countries including a few from the United Kingdom and the United States. More tha
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- Where:
- Fürstenberg/Havel, Germany
- Coordinates:
- 53.19°N, 13.16°E
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