From mid-August to early October 1944, 12,000 women were transported from the devastated Warsaw to Ravensbrück. Many of them with children.

In July of 1936 in Spain fascist generals seized power during a coup against the democratically elected government. They were supported by the dictatorships in Germany and Italy. Antifascists from all over the world came to help the Spanish people and joined thousands of courageous Spanish comrades in armed combat against fascism in Europe.

“During the night of February 26, 1943, many of the imprisoned women of Ravensbrück suddenly awake. It is bitterly cold and a severe northeastern wind sweeps across the roofs. Heavy snowfall, icy roads and tracks, empty squares swept clean by the wind… They are coming! – We don’t see them yet, hear only their steps, rhythmic, even – left, left, left, and left. Steady, calm, self-confident they are marching on the muster ground. No, they don’t march, they protest. They ignore the SS’s orders and react only to their sergeant‘s brief and barely audible commands. As calm as they arrived from the camp´s main road – in lockstep – just as calm and pointedly disciplined they left the square in small groups towards the registration office. They were wrapped only in blankets after they had to take off their uniforms beneath the open sky.”

(Official Cover name "Inter Services Research Bureau")