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OCR: Ravensbrueck was concentration camp estabiished about 50 miies north of Beriin Germany was built in 1939 camp for women, mostiy criminals prisoners of war, Jews Gypsies and members of the underground estimated that 92,000 of these inmates from harsh living conditions, exhaustion mistreatment by guards or execution Most of Ravensbrueck's prisoners were used for slave iabor, and many were used for medical experiments 1942 and 1943 Silvia was imprisoned at Ravens brueck from October 1943 until she and 700 other women were evacuated by the Red Cross January 1945 on April 15 1945 with Soviet Army units approaching the camp Rave nsbrueck's remaining 17,000 women prisoners were forced on death march to Sachsenhausen established died siave