Are any of the buildings there, or were they torn down or what?
2006-06-19 20:01:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Travel ➔ Germany ➔ Other - Germany
Is Ravensbruck still standing?
2006-06-19 20:08:32 · update #1
Many of them still exist. They're kept up as a "Mahnmal" -- closest translation being a "memorial as a warning for future generations".
Ravensbrück is still standing. Have a look here:
http://www.ravensbrueck.de/mgr/english/home/index.htm
and here for more on the history:
http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/RavensbruckEng.html
2006-06-23 19:46:22 · answer #1 · answered by Blue 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I'm the Granddaughter of 2 Holocaust survivors (both of them are gone now) but they did however tell me some of what happened and I did the research of the rest of it later. First was that the prisoners Jews, Poles, Gypsies, Romi, and Homosexuals were taken from the half way camp which was usually was either Bergin-Belsen (if they were coming from the West) or Warsaw (from the West) that's what happened to my Grandparents my Grandpa was taken from Bergen-Belsen then was loaded onto train and was sent to Auschwitz. He said that the living conditions were so bad that many were died even before they even arrived to Auschwitz. Once they got there the chief Nazi leader of Auschwitz would greet people at the entrance that "Welcome to Auschwitz only through hard work can set you free and you will be helping the Fatherland in doing this." They then split the group into 2 groups anyone who was strong and healthy were sent to the right anyone who were to young or to old were sent to the left to the Gas Chamber and later to the Ovens. My Grandmother came from Warsaw and she said basically the same thing that my grandmother said. In 1944 after the allies (USA and England) invaded Normandy, France and Russia was coming from the East the Nazis were boxed in they were winning the war against the "undesirables" but they were losing the war against the Allies so in Auschwitz to prevent anyone from telling the Russians what was going on they wanted to gas everyone who were still in the camp (including my grandparents) but thankfully though the Russians got there before it happened. Now those they choose to kill (those who went left) at the chamber doctors inspected those who were there they were then asked to strip of their clothes and then were sent to "shower stall" to bath and get rid of any disease "only the healthy can work in this camp" that was when the gas which was Nyklon B.
2016-05-20 04:14:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Several of the concentration camps and satellite camps are still in Germany. With a little research on the net you can find a complete list. I have been to Dachau and some of the original buildings are still standing.
2006-06-22 03:45:57 · answer #3 · answered by Liz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Ravensbruck is still standing
2006-06-20 16:18:52 · answer #4 · answered by pro_and_contra 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I visited Bergen-Belsen, where Ann Frank died, and you can see the mounds where the mass graves are but most of the buildings have been torn down/burned. They have a bunch of memorials though.
2006-06-20 03:32:12 · answer #5 · answered by dmbfan598 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Auschwitz is still up and around. Oprah just took a visit there with one of the survivors who wrote a book about it. The death chambers and all are still there.
2006-06-19 20:05:10 · answer #6 · answered by Candy Cane 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dachau is still there and receives many visitors..probably used as another money-grabbing ploy to support all their crazy socialist ideas and terrorist immigrants.
2006-06-22 05:45:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
some are there for touring the others either the nazis tried to destroy before they were caught or the weather destroyed them.
2006-06-19 20:07:12 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow good question...Myself I hope they were totally destroyed.... but man if not what a piece of history.
2006-06-19 20:05:57 · answer #9 · answered by Question Queen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋