This account of the daily life at Ravensbrück concentration camp was given by one of the liberated inmates, Colette Robin, a French citizen who arrived there in January, 1943. She listed many of the activities that the inmates were forced to do by the SS guards, as well as the brutal acts these guards committed.
“On the slightest pretext they sentenced the women to ‘rest’ standing up for six hours on end, or they sent them to the punishment block where they received 25 strokes with a stick.”
The next day, PM ran an article about a Nazi concentration camp filled only with children: click here to read that article…
More on the Nazi concentration camps can be read here
A more detailed history of Ravensbrück can be read on this website
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