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Ravens Madhya Concentration Camp

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Ravensbruck Concentration Camp Ravensbruck was a women’s concentration camp located in northern Germany. It was open from 1939 to 1945 and held more than 132,000 prisoners throughout this time. The prisoners were sorted into categories, had poor living conditions, worked long days, and were often killed. Ravensbruck Concentration Camp was a place where many people lost their lives during World War II and the brutalities of the camp had a lasting impact on the victim’s lives. At the arrival at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp, prisoners were placed into categories. Political prisoners wore red triangles, Jehovah’s Witnesses wore purple triangles, asocials wore black triangles, and common criminals wore green triangles. Jews wore a yellow triangle, but also wore a red triangle if they were a political prisoner. this formed the Jewish Star of David. A letter inside the triangle symbolized the nationality of the prisoner. Prisoners came from countries such as Poland, Germany, Austria, the Soviet Union, Britain and America. …show more content…

By the end of the war, conditions were terrible. Barracks built to sleep 250 women slept up to 2,000 women. Three to four women shared each bed. Many did not even have a bed and were left lying on the floor with no blanket. There was a plague of lice in the barracks. All the women were to cut off their hair because of this. There was also danger of getting disease from the water. In each barrack, there was one washroom and three toilets. The toilets had no doors and were in very poor conditions. The women were awake for roll call at 4:00 a.m. After everyone was accounted for, they were sent off to work long days. All these conditions made life in the barracks unbearable and many people

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