From May 1939 onwards the main concentration camp for women was Ravensbrück, which is about 55 miles north of Berlin. It had about 70 'sub-camps' and was used for training female concentration camp guards - about 4,000 in all, including the notorious Irma Grese.
Some predominantly male concentration camps had women's sections, such as Bergen-Belsen. Stutthof, near Danzig, also had a large women's section and several women's sub-camps.
In the Holocaust, women were sent to all the main death camps, including Auschwitz. Auschwitz II (Birkenau) had a large women's (forced labour) camp.
It was a concentration camp for women.
Ravensbruck was the largest women's concentration camp during World War II. .
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Her family was taken in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where they died. Only father Otto survived.
Heppenheim was not a designed as a POW camp, it was a sub-camp of Dachau Concentration Camp. See the link.
Ravensbrück was an all-female camp and had some of the very worst female camp guards.
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Elli Wiesel was taken to the ghetto in Sighet and then deported to Auschwitz Birekanau, then marched to Buchenwald.
The prisoner's are shipped by packed cattle car to the concentration camp, separated men from women, guards hold guns to them at every turn