Where birds never sang

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Where Birds Don't Sing chronicles the horrifying stories of Ravensbruck and Sachsenhausen, two concentration camps in the Third Reich. Ravensbruck is located in Furstenberg, a quiet town north of B...

Where Birds Don't Sing chronicles the horrifying stories of Ravensbruck and Sachsenhausen, two concentration camps in the Third Reich. Ravensbruck is located in Furstenberg, a quiet town north of Berlin. Not far from the center of the village stood the tall, concrete building surrounded by barbed wire, which served as the largest concentration camp for women in the German Reich. Sachsenhausen was a concentration camp located in Oranienburg, also outside Berlin. It was the first camp to be built after Heinrich Himmler was put in charge of the German police in July of 1936. Sachsenhausen was built to express the worldview of the SS through its architecture and to symbolically subdue the prisoners to its absolute power. When the administrative department responsible for all concentration camps moved from Berlin to Oranienburg, the camp took on a prominent position within the system. Between 1936 and 1945, more than 200,000 people were imprisoned there. At first the prisoners were political opponents of the National Socialist regime; then came the people declared to be racially or biologically inferior. From 1939 onward, an increasing numbers of citizens from occupied European countries were transported to the camp. Where Birds Don't Sing shares the truth of the prisoners' mistreatment and ends with a moving reunion of the survivors of both camps.

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