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German began the construction of Ravensbruck. The S.S. sent over 500 male prisoners from Sachenhausen to construct the camp.
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There are 5 departments of leadership: the commandant’s office, political department, protective company, administration, and camp doctor. SS Colonel Günther Tamaschke becomes the first camp commandant at Ravensbrück.
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The SS transfers 900 women from Lichtenburg concentration camp to Ravensbrück concentration camp. They are the first women interned in Ravensbrück.
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SS Captain Max Koegel takes the place of Günther Tamaschke as camp commandant.
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SS made a small men's camp adjacent to the Ravensbrück main camp.
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SS began sending prisoners they "selected" as unfit for work at Ravensbrück to a sanitarium in Bernburg, which, equipped with gas chambers, killing all people with physical and mental disabilities. The SS killed nearly 2,000 Ravensbrück prisoners this way during the spring of 1942.
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SS medical doctors begin subjecting prisoners at Ravensbrück to medical experiments. They attempted to treat wounds with chemicals to prevent infection. They also tested things like amputation, sterilization, and transplanting bones. Most of the prisoners subjected to the experiments died.
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SS Captain Fritz Suhren replaces Max Koegel as camp commandant.
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Camp authorities initiate a second round of killings at gas chamber centers. During this phase, around sixty transports leave Ravensbrück for the gas chamber centers at Hartheim. Transports carried between 60 to 1,000 prisoners. The SS also killed by sending prisoners to Auschuwitz or by lethal injection in the infirmary.
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The SS began evacuating Ravensbruck. They sent 2,100 male prisoners to Sachsenhausen.
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The SS sent about 5,600 female prisoners from Ravensbrück to the Mauthausen and Bergen-Belsen.
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SS forced about 20,000 female prisoners, and most of the remaining male prisoners, on an evacuation on foot to Mecklenberg.
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Soviet forces liberate Ravensbruck.
