Uckermark concentration camp
| Part of Auschwitz , May 1944 |
The Uckermark concentration camp was a small German
Overview
The camp was opened in May 1942 as a detention camp for girls, aged 16 to 21, who were considered criminal or difficult. Girls who reached the upper age limit were transferred to the
In January 1945, the juveniles' camp was closed and the infrastructure was subsequently used as an extermination camp for "women who were sick, no longer efficient, and over 52 years old".[2] Over 5,000 women were murdered there; only 500 women and children survived. Though it was shut down in March 1945 the Soviets liberated the camp on the night of April 29–30, 1945. Today only very few structures of the camp lie in ruins, barely recognizable.
Some of the responsible
See also
- German Resistance to Nazism
- Glossary of Nazi Germany
- The Holocaust
- List of books about Nazi Germany
- List of concentration and internment camps
- List of Nazi-German concentration camps
- Nazi concentration camps
- Nazi Party
- Nazi songs
- World War II
References
- ^ Silke Schaefer: the self-understanding of women in the camps. The camp Ravensbrück. Berlin 2002 ( thesis pdf )
- ISBN 3-596-13094-8. (in German)
External links
- S. Schäfer: Zum Selbstverständnis von Frauen im Konzentrationslager: das Lager Ravensbrück. PhD thesis 2002, ). In German.
- Susanne Luhmann: Memory care and queer akinship at the former Uckermark concentration camp for girls and young women. Memory Studies 2023, Vol. 16(1) p. 32–50 (online: [1])
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