During World War II, Ravensbrück, north of Berlin in Germany, was a concentration camp mainly reserved for women and children. During the war years, just over 130 000 prisoners were sent to Ravensbrück. By 1945, only between 15 000 and 30 000 of them were still alive. In spring 1945, the Red Cross, assisted by Folke Bernadotte`s White Buses, rescued around 20 000 camp survivors who were brought to Sweden and Denmark. In Lund, a working group decided to document the former camp inmates` experiences. The archive contains 500 detailed interviews with survivors, conducted during the months following their arrival in Sweden. Most of them came from Ravensbrück, but...
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