About 500 people gathered Sunday to mark the 66th anniversary of the liberation of Ravensbrück
concentration camp and give honor to the thousands of the victims. Germany's Environment Minister Anita Tack represented the government at the ceremony.
In its largest women's concentration camp, the Nazis held during 1939 to 1945 some 152,000 women, children and men. The prisoners were transferred to Ravensbrück in northern Germany from over 40 nations and they included Jews, Sinti and Roma. It is estimated that about 20% of all prisoners in the camp were Jewish.
Tens of thousands were murdered, died of starvation, disease or medical experiments in the Camp. On 30 April 1945, the Red Army liberated the notorious concentration camp which included then some 2000 sick and starved detainees.
The Ravensbruck concentration camp serves today as the official memorial site of the state of Brandenburg.
