From 1939 until 1945, the largest concentration camp for women in the “Großdeutsches Reich” (Greater German Reich) was located near the village of Ravensbrück. Jewish women were also interned and murdered in Ravensbrück; in the last months of the war they made up at least a quarter of the inmates. After 1945, the camp’s historically significant role during the Holocaust was initially overshadowed by the women’s camp in Auschwitz…
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Jaiser, Constanze, “Ravensbrück”, in: Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online, Original German Language Edition: Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur. Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig herausgegeben von Dan Diner. © J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland 2011–2017. Consulted online on 02 October 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-8894_ejhc_COM_0722>
First published online: 2017
First print edition: 20221116
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