Photos: Uckermark Concentration Camp

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	Uckermark was a concentration camp for girls mostly aged 16-21, although girls as young as 8 years old are known to have been imprisoned here. After the war, the camp was used as a hospital and then the buildings were burned when no longer needed. Today, no structures remain—only some of the foundations may be seen.
	The first girls were deported to Uckermark in June of 1942. Between 1000 and 2000 girls and young women were imprisoned in the camp 1942–45.
	Around January of 1945 Uckermark was converted into an extermination camp. From January until April, twenty to thirty older or ill women from Ravensbrück were executed each day by lethal injection or poisoning.
	Today, signs and posts mark the former locations of buildings at Uckermark Concentration Camp.
	The corner of a former building at Uckermark Concentration Camp.
	Sign marking the former location of a 60 x 12.5 meter barrack at Uckermark Concentration Camp.
	Posts marking locations of buildings at Uckermark Concentration Camp.
	Remnant of a foundation at Uckermark Concentration Camp.
	Posts marking locations of buildings at Uckermark Concentration Camp.
	Uckermark Concentration Camp was not open to the public when these photos were taken in 2002. A camp security guard assisted the FCIT photographers in entering the camp.
	"Under these bricks there is the ending part of a prison-hut."
	"Under these bricks there is the ending part of a prison-hut."
	Posts marking locations of buildings at Uckermark Concentration Camp.
	Posts marking locations of buildings at Uckermark Concentration Camp.
	Building foundations at Uckermark Concentration Camp.
	Building foundations at Uckermark Concentration Camp.
	Sign marking location of barracks ("prison-hut") at Uckermark Concentration Camp.
	Sign showing work done in 2001 at Uckermark Concentration Camp.
	Area of recent archeological dig at Uckermark Concentration Camp.
	Area of recent archeological dig at Uckermark Concentration Camp.
	Area of recent archeological dig at Uckermark Concentration Camp.
	Area of recent archeological dig at Uckermark Concentration Camp.

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