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Large Photograph of Women Carrying Their Fellow Prisoner Who Perished at the Ravensbrück Women’s Concentration Camp - Large photograph showing four women at the Ravensbrück concentration camp carrying their fellow prisoner who had perished in the camp (apparently for burial). [Ravensbrück, early 1940s]. Rare. Photographed through the camp’s barbed-wire fences by SS personnel themselves. A guard tower and an SS guard can be seen in the background. Rare – the archives of the official Ravensbrück Memorial note that only a small number of photographs survive from the period when the women’s concentration camp was in operation. The Memorial Museum holds a large-format SS album from 1940–1941 comprising 92 photographs depicting the camp grounds, various buildings, and female prisoners performing forced labor. Size: 27 × 21 cm. Good condition.