She was imprisoned at Ravensbruck concentration camp during WW II.
There were tens of thousands who survived.
After spending three months in prison, Corrie ten Boom was sent to Vught concentration camp in south Holland in 1944, which was mainly used as a transit stop for prisoner being moved to Germany and Poland. She was than moved to Ravensbruck concentration camp in Northern Germany, were she remained until she was freed in December 1944. It was in Ravensbruck that Corrie's sister, Betsie ten Boom died.
1.Stutthof 2.Gross-Rosen 3.Auschwitz (with all of it's sub-camps) 4.Majdanek 5. Ravensbruck
All four are the names of different kinds of Nazi camps. * Dachau and Buchenwald were 'ordinary' concentration camps. (Dachau was a Grade I concentration camp, Buchenwald was Grade II - in other words, harsher). * Ravensbrück was a concentration camp for women only. * The Birkenau section of Auschwitz was mainly an extermination camp that carried out mass gassings on a vast scale, but it also included the main hard labour camp for women in the Auschwitz complex of camps.
It was a concentration camp for women.
a concentration camp.
She was imprisoned at Ravensbruck concentration camp during WW II.
Ravensbruck concentration camp
It did not have subcamps. It was a subcamp of Ravensbruck.
I believe it was on Holy Saturday 1945 that she was sent to Ravensbruck Concentration Camp in Northern Germany.
There were tens of thousands who survived.
It is a holocaust memorial and has some educational facilities, but it is not a tourist attraction.
She was an SOE spy during WWII who was killed at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp on or about 5 February 1945.
Yes, of course, but what is very disturbing was the Ravensbruck camp, especially for women. I visited it many years ago.
After spending three months in prison, Corrie ten Boom was sent to Vught concentration camp in south Holland in 1944, which was mainly used as a transit stop for prisoner being moved to Germany and Poland. She was than moved to Ravensbruck concentration camp in Northern Germany, were she remained until she was freed in December 1944. It was in Ravensbruck that Corrie's sister, Betsie ten Boom died.
Ravensbruck was a camp for women near Furstenberg (about 388 miles northeast of Frankfurt.)