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	The Women of Ravensbruck: Portraits of Courage
		Her son was born in Ravensbruck; then as an infant, was murdered by Nazis.
		Ravensbruck was a concentration camp built in 1939 for women; most of who were part of the resistance to Nazi occupation.
		The Ravensbruck women were an active part of the Dutch Resistance, French Resistance and many countries who took a stand against fascism and were among the first to be taken prisoners by the Nazis.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/Holocaust/ravensbruck.html (830 words)

	Ravensbruck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ravensbruck was a concentration camp in Ravensbruck, Germany, a city north of Berlin.
		A survivor of the camp described walking down the hill towards Ravensbruck as so: " the camp was like a vast scar on the green German landscape; a city of low gray barracks surrounded by concrete walls on which guard towers rose at intervals.
		The Ravensbruck web page dicusses the women at Ravensbruck and tells some stories of the women that lived there.
	www.bsu.edu /classes/prince/eng101/Night/Map/ravensbruck.htm (260 words)

	Museum of Tolerance Multimedia Learning Center
		A concentration camp near Ravensbruck, a village on the Havel River two - thirds of a mile (1 km) from the Furstenberg railway station and 56 miles (90 km) north of Berlin.
		In 1942 and 1943 Ravensbruck also had a training base for female SS supervisors; the 3,500 women who underwent training there served at Ravensbruck and at other concentration camps.
		In late 1939 Ravensbruck had 2,000 prisoners, and by the end of 1942 the number had grown to 10,800.
	motlc.learningcenter.wiesenthal.org /text/x28/xr2821.html (699 words)

	Ravensbruck Experimentation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nazi death camps are widely known for the millions of Jews that were murdered, but the medical experiments that went on at the camps are hidden.
		At Ravensbruck, many experiments were conducted, but the transplantation of joints, bones, and muscles was very popular.
		In March of 1945 Ravensbruck was ordered to evacuate and 2,500 prisoners were given to the Danish Red Cross.
	www.angelfire.com /ky3/ravensbruck (177 words)

	Ravensbruck Ex-KZ
		Although Ravensbruck was not an extermination/death camp, over 92,000 of the inmates died there between 1939 and 1945.
		On May 2nd, 1945, 2 days after Ravensbruck was liberated by the Red Army, so was Retzow--along with the women from Retzow who were also on the Death March.
		Tattenbaum was imprisoned at Ravensbruck for the crime of being ½ Jewish by ethnicity.
	members.tripod.com /~whey_too_cool/Ravensbruck.html (1862 words)

	www.rian.ru
		"Ravensbruck is among the numerous places where inhuman crimes and most brutal human rights violations were committed," the Minister pointed out.
		The ceremony was attended by former Ravensbruck inmates from various countries, including CIS states, representatives of Berlin and Brandenburg authorities and German voluntary organizations.
		The Ravensbruck concentration camp was organized near the city of Furstenberg in 1938 by an order of SS chief Heinrich Himmler - exclusively for women inmates.
	en.rian.ru /world/20050418/39685864-print.html (267 words)

	Affidavit of Fritz Ernst Fischer, 21 November 1945
		Before an operation was undertaken, the persons who had been selected in accordance with this procedure, received a medical examination by the camp physician to determine their suitability for the experiments from a medical stand-point.
		Doctor Stumpfegger, in whose field of research this operation was, was supposed to perform the removal of the scapula (shoulder blade) at Ravensbruck, and had already made initial arrangements therefor.
		Since I succeeded in scientific discoveries of the highest practical importance, that is, the solution of the cancer problem and its therapy, I have not communicated this fact to Professor Gebhardt and have not published this work in order not to be ordered again to carry out experiments.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/Fischer.htm (2983 words)

	www.belgiumww2.info - Escape and Evasion in wartime Belgium - Ravensbruck, Majdenak and Auschwitz-Birkenau
		On February 3rd 1944 she was transferred from Ravensbruck to Lublin in south eastern Poland, to the notorious Majdenek concentration camp.
		The Perzanowska account describes how most of these women on the February Ravensbruck transport were transfered to Auschwitz-Birkenau on on a transport that left Majdanek on the 13th April 1944 (1625 men and women).
		As the Red Army approached the Germans made attempts to evacuate the camp, in the middle of winter around the 18th January, prisoners were marched out and made to walk westwards, many died on the way or were murdered by SS guards because they were unable to continue.
	home.clara.net /clinchy/neeb3a.htm (1129 words)

	Zwoje (The Scrolls) 1 (38), 2004
		The meeting between Himmler and Masur took place at Gut Hartzwalde, Kersten's estate, not far from the Ravensbruck camp where starving and mutilated women were unaware that Himmler and Masur were meeting to decide their fate.
		At Ravensbruck, Dr. Karl Gebhart removed leg muscles from young Polish women and transplanted amputated limbs from the victims to patients at the SS hospital.
		In April 1944, as the Soviet army advanced, she was transferred to the concentration camp for Jews in Plaszow (near Krakow) and then to Auschwitz in July 1944.
	www.zwoje-scrolls.com /zwoje38/text18p.htm (3425 words)

	Independent Lens . SISTERS IN RESISTANCE . The Film \| PBS
		She shot at Ravensbruck concentration camp, at the French prisons and at numerous Paris locations central to the story.
		The eldest of the women is Germaine Tillion; at 93, she is the “mother hen.” A founder of the famous Resistance network Musée de l'Homme, Germaine met the youngest of the friends, Anise Postel-Vinay, before boarding the train to Ravensbruck.
		Resistance and arrest led them to Ravensbruck, where they shared a straw mattress, and most importantly, defied the dehumanization of the camp by taking care of one another with love and tenderness.
	www.pbs.org /independentlens/sistersinresistance/film.html (554 words)

	(E) Croatian Inmates in German Concentration Camps, April 2, 2005
		From Susak (Rijeka), she was in Ravensbruck and died in a camp.
		She survived the Ravensbruck concentration camp and described her experiences in her booklet Ravensbruck: Zenski logor smrti (Ravensbruck: The Woman's Death Camp), Zagreb: AFZ, 1946.
		Her husband was in the Partisans and she was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.
	www.croatianworld.net /Letters/5126.htm (8262 words)

	Youthministry.com - Life changing ideas for youth ministry, youth workers, and (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At Ravensbruck, Corrie and her sister, Betsy, endured forced labor, rat-infested and unheated barracks, malnutrition, disease, and physical abuse.
		Then miraculously, Corrie was released from Ravensbruck on a clerical error—one week before the rest of the women in her age group were exterminated.
		After the war ended, Corrie went back to Ravensbruck to share the gospel with the people responsible for her pain and horror.
	www.youthministry.com /ArticlePrint.asp?ID=132 (678 words)

	Ravensbrück Concentration Camp (Germany)
		From this time, the number of prisoners increased dramatically--400 gypsy women from Austria arrived on May 29, 1939 and on September 28, 1939, the first women from Poland arrived in the camp.
		The conditions of life in Ravensbrück were as shameful and difficult as in all the other concentration camps--death by starvation, beating, torture, hanging, and shooting happened daily.
		The women who were too weak to work were transferred to be gassed at the Uckermark "Youth Camp" located nearby Ravensbruck or to Auschwitz.
	www.jewishgen.org /ForgottenCamps/Camps/RavensbruckEng.html (1032 words)

	Ex-Nazi guard says she 'did nothing wrong' -- and her silence 'was my business' (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Elfriede Rinkel, 84, displayed no remorse about what she did at the Ravensbruck concentration camp in northern Germany, where an estimated 90,000 people were killed during the war.
		Rinkel volunteered for the job at Ravensbruck because it was easier than factory work, she said.
		Ravensbruck was infamous for the medical atrocities perpetrated against women there.
	www.sfgate.com.cob-web.org:8888 /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/21/NAZI.TMP (1517 words)

	Writing.Com: FRAULEIN HANNAH ECK
		Ravensbruck began as a training arena for women guards later sent to spend tenures at Auschwitz, Birkenau, and thirty-four satellite camps.
		None of this matters to Hannah Eck when she confides to me she's fighting the enemy, the same as me. Anyone dubbed Jude or brought here by the transport trains is her enemy, her beloved Fuhrer's reason to wreck havoc across a continent.
		Experiments at Ravensbruck include testing of cyanide poisoning, abortions, bone transplants and the ever popular switch of entire limbs from one patient to another.
	www.writing.com /main/view_item/item_id/996132 (3471 words)

	Weekend: Art: Hot Ticket
		Terwilliger, a local artist and teacher, dedicated her art to telling the story of the Ravensbruck concentration camp for women.
		Artifacts from Ravensbruck, as well as Terwilliger's reconstruction of several artifacts, are also on display.
		Among the most moving aspects of the exhibit are the 14 photographs and biographies of heroines from the camp.
	www.sptimes.com /News/041901/news_pf/Weekend/Art__Hot_Ticket.shtml (282 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Survivors mark camps' liberation
		Former prisoners of Ravensbruck, Bergen-Belsen and Sachsenhausen were joined at the camps by world leaders and former servicemen.
		Among them was 75-year-old Judith Sherman, who brought her two sons and grandchildren, so she could tell them for the first time the story of her struggle to survive "hell".
		She kept her feelings hidden, but the memories of dead bodies and sickness were never far away, she said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/4453519.stm (602 words)

	Helga Schneider's 'Let Me Go: My Mother and the SS' reviewed on the official website of Laura Hird
		Schneider threads together the meeting itself, with the background, her memories of the past, and the facts she has discovered about Auschwitz and Ravensbruck.
		Traudi worked at Ravensbruck where medical experiments were carried out on prisoners.
		She tied such prisoners to tables, where they could wait for hours, before painful experiments were conducted on them.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/letmego.html (1325 words)

	Ravensbruck (Concentration camp) books, find the lowest prices
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		Forschungsschwerpunkt Ravensbruck : Beitrage Zur Geschichte Des Frauen-Konzentrationslagers
		L'esile Filo Della Memoria : Ravensbruck, 1945 Un Drammatico Ritorno Alla Liberta
	www.allbookstores.com /Ravensbruck_(Concentration_Camp)_p3sd.html (195 words)

	List of Jews and others from Slovakia, who went through Ravensbruck
		Survivors of Ravensbruck from around the world will gather at the Ravensbruck memorial near Berlin on April 15 - 18, 2005 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation by the Soviet Army.
		During the division of Czechoslovakia in 1993 into the Czech and Slovak republics, the Czechoslovak exposition at the concentration camp of Ravensbruck was turned into a Czech exposition.
		The core of this exposition consists of the objective work of historians, lists compiled by scientists and the testimonies of former prisoners of the concentration camp in Ravensbruck.
	persimmonpress.com /ravensbruck/index.htm (160 words)

	Daughters of Yael - Two Jewish Heroines of the SOE
		Denise was murdered by the Nazis at Ravensbruck death camp near Mecklenburg together with Violette Szabo, GC and Lilian Rolfe, Cr.
		But after three weeks at Ravensbruck (the world's largest prison for women ever known) she and Szabo and Rolfe were taken to Torgau (with Nearne) on 3 September, a Labour camp one hundred and twenty miles south of Ravensbruck where conditions were slightly better and they worked in a factory.
		She was a Guernsey woman who had been deported to Ravensbruck and allegedly forced to become a Kapo (No. 39785) in the Strafeblock (59).
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/ww2/sugar2.html (8197 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: camps/ravensbruck/nielson.001
		Upon her arrival in Ravensbruck, she was summoned to the office of the camp commandant.
		`The point is that we feel that since you were involved with the transportation of Jewish children in Denmark, we should give you a job here in Ravensbruck that would use to advantage your previous experience and interests.
		We are therefore giving you a job similar to the one you had in Denmark -- transporting Jewish children.' Mrs.
	www.vex.net /~nizkor/ftp.py?camps/ravensbruck/nielson.001 (623 words)

	Ravensbruck Concentration Camp for Woman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Prisoners that where going to be sentenced to death in 1942 had been sent to separate institutions or death camps.
		In 1944 70,000 prisoners were brought to Ravensbruck.
		The main camp housed 26,7000 female prisoners that year.
	www.angelfire.com /fl/angelforever/ravensbruck.html (221 words)

	RAVENSBRUCK MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS IN THE WOMEN'S CONCENTRATION CAMP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A great amount of the information placed on these pages has come from him, and Mrs.
		Jadwiga Dzido was a former political prisoner in the Ravensbruck Concentration Camp and a victim of the medical experiments conducted in the camp.
		From this, should not be inferred that the other national or political groups of prisoners and the role they played in the camp's community might be less important.
	individual.utoronto.ca /jarekg/Ravensbruck/Introduction.html (510 words)

	Ravensbruck free essays
		There was only one major nazi camp that was made for women and children it was called Ravensbruck.
		It was situated on a small lake opposite the city of Furstenberg, 56 miles north of Berlin.
		Opened in 1939, Ravensbruck held more than 30,000 women and children and 20,000 men by the end of world war two.
	www.needapaper.com /viewpaper/20160.html (184 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ravensbruck, the only Nazi concentration camp specifically for women, many from Poland, subjected inmates to horrible conditions, slave labor and medical experiments.
		The experience of a broad spectrum of survivors is immortalized in the artwork of the late Julia Terwilliger, with artifact and text created by Rachelle G. Saidel.
		Zdjecia z otwarcia wystawy "Kobiety z Ravensbruck - Portrety Odwagi" zorganizowanej na czesc pamieci zony i matki Zofii Teresy Leuchter.
	www.forum-polonia-houston.com /Events/2003/courage.htm (115 words)

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