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The Malchow camp system consisted of ten [[barracks]] on the terrain of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, which each had the capacity to house about 100 women. This meant that the Malchow camp was able to house 1,000 women prisoners. But, by 1945, the camp population had grown to 5,000 women. In the summer of 1943, the camp terrain finally became enclosed by a high fence. The ten barracks that were part of the camp, which was originally used for the construction workers of Ravensbrück, were enclosed by this fence.

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In Malchow, the prisoners barely received anything to eat and were forced to kneel on sharp gravel stones. Body searches and beatings were routine at Malchow. Although residents of the town of Malchow were not allowed to have any contact with the prisoners of the camp, some townspeople provided the inmates with supplies of food. When they were discovered by the SS, they too were imprisoned in Malchow. Aside from [[starvation]] and [[Fatigue (medical)|exhaustion]], many prisoners also died during many [[epidemics]] of diseases such as [[tuberculosis]] and [[typhus]]. Some types of forced labor that the prisoners had to do were producing mines, collecting [[Urtica dioica|nettles]] from children’schildren's playgrounds, cleaning the factory and town, building [[canals]] for the hospital of Malchow, and doing [[horticultural]] work.

During 1944, when most of the [[Death marches (Holocaust)|death marches]] were taking place across [[Europe]], Malchow served as a transit camp for other prisoners arriving from other concentration camps. Eyewitness reports of many Malchow survivors say that a transport of about 1,000 concentration camp prisoners arrived at the camp on [[24 November]] 1944. They had traveled on a death march for several weeks. There, at Malchow, they were brought to [[Wismar]], and placed on [[barges]] that were sunk in the [[Baltic Sea]] or a nearby river.

On [[2 May]] 1945, Malchow, and the rest of Ravensbrück was liberated by the [[Red Army]].

* [[RavensbrückThe Holocaust]]

* [[List of subcampsconcentration ofand internment Ravensbrückcamps]]

* [http://www.ushmm.org/search/results/?q=Malchow United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Website.] Displaying 1–25 of 60 matches for "Malchow". Retrieved 24 February 2015.