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The '''Uckermark concentration camp''' was a small German [[concentration camp]] for young women near the [[Ravensbrück concentration camp]] in [[Fürstenberg/Havel]], [[Germany]] and then an "emergency" [[extermination camp]].

==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 [[Ravensbrück concentration camp|Ravensbrück women's camp]]. Camp administration was provided by the Ravensbrück camp.  In its early years, the head overseer at Uckermark was a woman named [[Lotte Toberentz]], and one other ''[[Aufseherin]]'' (female warden) is known today by the name of [[Johanna Braach]].  Both of these women were tried by a British court at the [[Third Ravensbrück trial]].<ref>Silke Schaefer: the self-understanding of women in the camps. The camp Ravensbrück. Berlin 2002 ( thesis pdf )</ref>

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".<ref>A. Ebbinghaus, ''Opfer und Täterinnen. Frauenbiographien des Nationalsozialismus.'' [[Nördlingen]] (1987) p. 287. Reprinted 1996: {{ISBN|3-596-13094-8}}. {{in lang|de}}</ref> Over 5,000 women were murdered there; only 500 women and children survived. Though it was shut down in March 1945 the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]s 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 [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] wardens of the camp, amongst them chief warden (''[[Oberaufseherin]]'') [[Ruth Neudeck]], were tried in the Third Ravensbrück Trial, called the "[[Uckermark trial]]".

== See also ==
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* [[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]]
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* S. Schäfer: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20080528193131/http://edocs.tu-berlin.de/diss/2002/schaefer_silke.pdf Zum Selbstverständnis von Frauen im Konzentrationslager: das Lager Ravensbrück]''. PhD thesis 2002, [[TU Berlin]]. ([[PDF]] file, 741&nbsp;[[Kilobyte|kB]]). 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: [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17506980221142980])

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