Hoheneck Women's Prison (German: ''Frauengefängnis Hoheneck'') was a women's correctional facility in operation between 1862 and 2001 in Stollberg, Germany. It became most notable as a detention facility for female political prisoners in East Germany. The prison was designed to hold up to 600 inmates, however, as many as 1,600 were detained there. The short film ''Broken: The Women’s Prison at Hoheneck'' examines forced labour in Hoheneck Prison.

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Erika Bergmann Erika Bergmann (3 January 1915 – 1996) was a German Nazi concentration camp guard at two labor camps during World War II. She was known as the "Bestie in Menschenhaut" ("beast in human skin") for her cruel treatment of prisoners during her ten ...

: Nazi war criminal and

Ravensbrück concentration camp Ravensbrück () was a German concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel). The camp memorial's estimated figure o ...

guard Ulla Jürß: Nazi war criminal and

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Erna Petri Erna may refer to: * Erna (mythology), figure from Norse mythology * Érna, or Iverni, a people of medieval Ireland * ''Erna'' (moth), genus of moths in the family Erebidae * Erna (planet), fictional world in C. S. Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy * E ...

: Nazi war criminal

Jutta Fleck Jutta Fleck (born 1946) is an attempted escapee and former political prisoner of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. She is known as "The Woman from Checkpoint Charlie". Following a failed attempt to escape from the German Democratic Republic ...

: Attempted escapee from the German Democratic Republic

Notable inmates

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