Concentration Camp Ravensbrück, Germany

The Concentration Camp, Ravensbrück, was primarily for women where approximately 80,000 women worked in the textile factory making the prison uniforms. This was also the camp were Corrie Ten Boom and her sister were imprisoned. It was a very cold and dreary place. We saw pictures of experiential surgeries, women were bit to death by guard dogs, and the gas chambers and gas machines. We toured the building where the matrons lived. These were the female prison guards that supervised the women and did cruel acts to the imprisoned women in the camp. The interesting thing is that most of the matrons volunteered for this position. We saw a short film where some of the former imprisoned women told their stories of surviving Ravensbrück.  It is very difficult to describe what I witnessed.