Ravensbrück was a Nazi concentration camp for women located in northern Germany. It was the largest concentration camp for women in the Nazi system and was in operation from 1939 until 1945. During that time, over 132,000 women and children were imprisoned at Ravensbrück, and over 92,000 of them died.
The victims of Ravensbrück included women and children from a variety of backgrounds and nationalities, including Jewish women, political prisoners, and prisoners of war. They were subjected to harsh and unsanitary conditions, as well as torture and medical experimentation. Many of the women and children who died at Ravensbrück were killed by starvation, disease, or by summary execution.
Ravensbrück was also used as a transit camp for women who were being sent to other concentration camps or to be used as forced laborers. Many of the women and children who passed through Ravensbrück were eventually killed at other camps, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen.
Ravensbrück was one of the most notorious concentration camps of the Nazi regime, and its legacy of suffering and death is a reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust.