Père-Lachaise in Paris in Département de Paris, Île-de-France, France — Western Europe
Ravensbruck Concentration Camp Memorial
Photographed By Andrew Ruppenstein, April 19, 2024
1. Ravensbruck Concentration Camp Memorial
reposent
des cendres
de femmes deportées
martyres
de la barbarie nazie
1939-1945
Here rest the ashes of deported women, martyrs of Nazi barbarism, 1939-1945
Topics and series. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, World II • Women. In addition, it is included in the The Holocaust series list.
Location. 48° 51.584′ N, 2° 23.975′ E. Marker is in Paris, Île-de-France, in Département de Paris. It is in Père-Lachaise. Memorial is on Avenue Circulaire, on the left when traveling north. The marker is in Pere Lachaise Cemetery, in Section 97, visible from Avenue Circulaire, just a few steps north of Avenue Transversale No. 3. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Paris, Île-de-France 75020, France. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Communist Women’s Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Maurice Audin (a few steps from this marker); Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial
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Also see . . .
1. Ravensbrück concentration camp (Wikipedia).
Overview: Ravensbrück was a Nazi 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, and thousands from other countries including a few from the United Kingdom and the United States. More than 20,000 (15 percent) of the total were Jewish. Eighty-five percent were from other races and cultures. More than 80 percent were political prisoners. Many prisoners were employed as slave labor by Siemens & Halske. From 1942 to(Submitted on April 21, 2024.)1945, the Nazis undertook medical experiments on Ravensbrück prisoners to test the effectiveness of sulfonamides.Photographed By Andrew Ruppenstein, April 19, 20242. Ravensbruck Concentration Camp Memorial - wide view
In the spring of 1941, the SS established a small adjacent camp for male inmates, who built and managed the camp's gas chambers in 1944. Of the female prisoners who passed through the Ravensbrück camp, about 50,000 perished; some 2,200 were killed in the gas chambers.
2. Ravensbrück (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).
Overview: The Ravensbrück concentration camp was the largest concentration camp for women within Germany's prewar borders. In the concentration camp system, it was second in size only to the women's camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau (which was in German-annexed Poland). After the closure of the Lichtenburg camp in 1939, Ravensbrück was also the only main concentration camp, as opposed to subcamp, designated almost exclusively for women.(Submitted on April 21, 2024.)
Additional keywords. Holocaust
Credits. This page was last revised on April 21, 2024. It was originally submitted on April 21, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 44 times since then. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on April 21, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
