Ravensbrück was a women's concentration camp during the Second World Warm was opened in May 1939. was located in northern Germany, ninety kilometers north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück.
 

Clandestine photograph of Polish political prisoners and civilian women and children from Warsaw transported to Ravensbrück after the collapse of the Warsaw Uprising, October 1944.
 

Ravensbrück was located in northern Germany, ninety kilometers north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück.

 

Female Jewish prisoners who have recently been released from Ravensbrück, cross the Danish border at the Padborg station on their way to Sweden, April 1945.

View of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. This photograph is from the SS-Propaganda-Album des Frauen-KZ-Ravensbrück 1940-1941.

A war crimes investigation
photo of the disfigured leg of
a survivor from Ravensbruck.

In the spring of 1941, the SS authorities established a small men's camp adjacent
to the main camp.

 

A nurse converses with three Polish female survivors of
the Ravensbrück concentration camp who had been subjected
to medical experimentation during their imprisonment.
 

Starting in the summer of 1942, medical experiments were conducted without consent on eighty-six women. The first type tested the efficacy of sulfonamide drugs. The second type studied bone, muscle and nerve regeneration.