Located 90km north of Berlin, the Ravensbrück concentration camp was the largest concentration camp for women in the German Reich. This short documentary produced in 2019 chronicles the years from 1939 to 1945 with film footage, photographs, drawings and other artefacts which have survived since the end of World War II.
Narrated by Mindi Thelen
Produced by Mindi Thelen and Tim Thelen
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After September 1939, with the beginning of the Second World War, concentration camps became places where millions of ordinary people were enslaved as part of the war effort, often starved, tortured and killed. During the war, new Nazi concentration camps for "undesirables" spread throughout the continent. According to statistics by the German Ministry of Justice, about 1,200 camps and subcamps were run in countries occupied by Nazi Germany, while the Jewish Virtual Library estimates that the number of Nazi camps was closer to 15,000 in all of occupied Europe and that many of these camps were run for a limited amount of time before they were closed. Camps were being created near the centers of dense populations, often focusing on areas with large communities of Jews, Polish intelligentsia, Communists or Romani. Since millions of Jews lived in pre-war Poland, most camps were located in the area of the General Government in occupied Poland, for logistical reasons.
