Ravensbruck

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A 104-year-old French Resistance fighter who saved the lives of more than 100 servicemen in the Second World War has revealed that she received a personal letter of thanks from Winston Churchill.

Nazis at Ravensbruck concentration camp amputated limbs from prisoners in useless attempts to transplant them onto other inmates. Many of the victims perished as a result.

Milena Jesenska, Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator, who refused to abandon her Jewish friends and was deported with several of them to Ravensbruck concentration camp, where she died.

Holocaust Survivors

Hermine Braunsteiner, female camp guard in Ravensbrück and Majdanek, nicknamed "The Stomping Mare" because she killed women by stomping on them with her steel-studded jackboots.

Hildegard Martha Lächert (January 20, 1920 in Berlin – 1995) was a notorious female guard, Aufseherin, at several German World War II concentration camps. She became publicly known for her service at Ravensbrück, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. After the war she spent 27 years in prison altogether for her brutal treatment of inmates during her camp service.

Hildegard Kusserow, a Jehovah's Witness, was imprisoned for four years in several concentration camps including Ravensbrueck. Germany, date uncertain.

Artist's depiction of Ravensbruck concentration camp and female Jehovah's Witness prisoners.

Purple triangle jehovahs witnesses wore these at the concentration camps

The camp was made to hold "deviant" women: Jews, Roma, spies, resistance fighters, communists, criminals, prostitutes, and lesbians.

Ravensbrück was the only major women's concentration camp during World War II, located in northern Germany, 90 km north of Berlin at a site near the

Ravensbrück was the only major women's concentration camp during World War II, located in northern Germany, 90 km north of Berlin at a site near the

Hildegard Martha Lächert (January 20, 1920 in Berlin – 1995) was a notorious female guard, Aufseherin, at several German World War II concentration camps. She became publicly known for her service at Ravensbrück, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. After the war she spent 27 years in prison altogether for her brutal treatment of inmates during her camp service.

The camp was made to hold "deviant" women: Jews, Roma, spies, resistance fighters, communists, criminals, prostitutes, and lesbians.

The camp was made to hold "deviant" women: Jews, Roma, spies, resistance fighters, communists, criminals, prostitutes, and lesbians.