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The Jewish women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp

Author: Rochelle G Saidel
Publisher: Madison, Wisc. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2004.
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"Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Located about fifty miles north of Berlin, the camp was the site of murder by slave labor, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, "medical" experimentation, and gassing." "Although this camp was designed to hold 5,000 women, the actual figure was six times this number. Between 1939 and 1945, 132,000 women from twenty-three countries were  Read more...
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Saidel, Rochelle G.
Jewish women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp.
Madison, Wisc. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004
(OCoLC)607384695
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Rochelle G Saidel
ISBN: 029919860X 9780299198602
OCLC Number: 53076015
Description: xvii, 279 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction : Ravensbrück on my mind --
A special hell for women --
Triangles of many colors --
Olga Benário Prestes and Käthe Pick Leichter --
Resistance that lifted the spirit --
Joyless childhoods --
A year of comings and goings, 1944 --
Women at work --
Gemma LaGuardia Gluck : a Jewish American --
Jewish evacuees arrive from Auschwitz --
Late arrivals from other camps --
The satellite work camps --
Malchow and the death marches --
Rescue to Sweden --
Reconstructing lives in the aftermath --
Gender and women's bodies --
Epilogue : Ravensbrück still on my mind.
Responsibility: Rochelle G. Saidel.
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"Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Located about fifty miles north of Berlin, the camp was the site of murder by slave labor, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, "medical" experimentation, and gassing." "Although this camp was designed to hold 5,000 women, the actual figure was six times this number. Between 1939 and 1945, 132,000 women from twenty-three countries were imprisoned in Ravensbruck, including political prisoners, Jehovah's Witnesses, "asocials" (including Gypsies, prostitutes, and lesbians), criminals, and Jewish women (who made up about 20 percent of the population). Only 15,000 survived." "Drawing on more than sixty narratives and interviews of survivors in the United States, Israel, and Europe as well as unpublished testimonies, documents, and photographs from private archives, Rochelle Saidel provides a vivid collective and individual portrait of Ravensbruck's Jewish women prisoners. She worked for over twenty years to track down these women whose poignant testimonies deserve to be shared with a wider audience and future generations. Their memoirs provide new perspectives and information about satellite camps (there were about 70 slave-labor sub-camps). Here is the story of real daily camp life with the women's thoughts about food, friendships, fear of rape and sexual abuse, hygiene issues, punishment, work, and resistance. Saidel includes accounts of the women's treatment, their daily struggles to survive, their hopes and fears, their friendships, their survival strategies, and the aftermath."--Jacket.

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