Ravensbrück Tailor Workshops - Texled

[CARL]

Texled - Gesellschaft für Textil-und Lederverwertung mbH Werk Ravensbrück

(Texled - Textile and Leather Recovery plc, Ravensbrück Branch)

In 1940, the first buildings were constructed where the manufacturing of prisoner uniforms - and later, SS uniforms, took place at f.KL-Ravensbrück (Frauen-Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück = Women's Concentration Camp Ravensbrück) near Fürstenberg, a health resort north of Berlin. The SS owned enterprise formed the largest part of the Industrial Estate at Ravensbrück, with several more buildings being completed by 1945. Tailor workshops, a weaving workshop, furriers' workshop, shredding workshop and an administrative building completed the complex. The tailors' workshop, also known as the Mechanical Workshops, was located in the northeastern corner of the camp and comprised eight interconnected manufacturing halls. Once completed in 1942, it became one of the largest sites of mass slave labour within the Ravensbrück KZ system. Through 1999 and 2000, the structure underwent considerable renovation and now houses an exhibition on slave labour at Ravensbrück.

[harryamb2]

many thanks Carl.

[AZPhil]

Oh Yes! Thank You Carl

Semper Fi
Phil

[Dom]

A fact that I did not know , thanks for this thread

[CARL]

Today, 30th April 2015, marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of f.KL-Ravensbrück. Considered the only major concentration camp established specifically to hold women, the camp also held some 20,000 male inmates during its existence. Tens of thousands fell victim to the conditions and treatment within the Ravensbrück camp system.

[CARL]

A recently created thread featuring an interesting story of sabotage related to the workers at the SS Texled enterprise, based at f.KL-Ravensbrück:

http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/konzen...2/#post1721467

[CARL]

Tomorrow, 30th April 2019, marks the 74th anniversary of the liberation of Ravensbrück. As Hitler committed suicide just 50 odd miles to the south, thousands of sick and weakened prisoners of the infamous camp at Ravensbrück finally tasted freedom when the Red Army arrived a day after the SS fled the camp.

Tens of thousands died at Ravensbrück...mostly women but also many men (the Männerlager was established in 1941) youths and children too.