Original Polish AUSCHWITZ Cross Poland Medal w/ Doc. KZ Ravensbrück Camp (6191)

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Original Polish AUSCHWITZ Cross Poland Medal w/ Doc. KZ Ravensbrück Camp
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KUKIEŁA LEOKADIA
b.1923-10-29, d. 2019-09-01. former prisoner of the Ravensbrück camp. In the last photo Kukieła Leokadia on promotion of the book “Golgotha of women. Accounts of female prisoners from Ravensbrück and other concentration camps from the collections of the Polish Source Institute in Lund "- Szczecin, 11 March 2019. Also on the Internet you can find an interview with Kukieła Leokadia in Polish, in which she talks about her fate and life in the camp.
Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, 90 km (56 mi) north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel). The camp memorial’s estimated figure of 132,000 women who were in the camp during the war includes about
48,500 from Poland
, 28,000 from the Soviet Union, almost 24,000 from Germany and Austria, nearly 8,000 from France, and thousands from other countries including a few from the United Kingdom and the United States. More than 20,000 of the total were Jewish. More than 80 percent were political prisoners. Many slave labor prisoners were employed by Siemens & Halske. From 1942 to 1945, medical experiments to test the effectiveness of sulfonamides were undertaken.
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