Siemens & Halske Production Facilities (Siemens Camp) | 1942–45
Between 1942 and 1944, the company Siemens & Halske set up several production facilities on this site. Female prisoners were forced to perform slave labour inside the buildings’ 20 workshops. From December 1944, the prisoners who had to work there were housed in huts that formed a separate camp section. Over 2,000 prisoners were forced to produce coils, switch parts and other parts for the armaments industry.
- Historical Overview and Map. Memorial Ravensbrueck pdf
According to the Historical Overview and Map. Memorial Ravensbrueck (which I downloaded from the official Ravensbrueck Memorial website), the area indicated in the red box was the site of the former Siemens Camp, but the photos below were taken from the position and direction indicated by the red arrow. Even to take these pictures I had to point my camera through a fence, as the vast majority of the former Nazi and later Soviet run concentration camp, including the Siemenslager, is out-of-bounds to the general public.
A lager version of this photo, which someone with knowledge
of German should be able to decipher, can be viewed here
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