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Women's concentration camps

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.

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