The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp

The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp

Â Â Â Â RavensbrÃ¼ck 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.
Â Â Â Â While 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 RavensbrÃ¼ck, 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.
Â Â Â Â Drawing upon more than sixty narratives and interviews of survivors in the United States, Israel, and Europe as well as unpublished testimonies, documents, and photographs from private archives, Rochelle Saidel provides a vivid collective and individual portrait of RavensbrÃ¼ckâ€™s Jewish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 womenâ€™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.
Â Â Â Â On April 30, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated RavensbrÃ¼ck. They found only 3,000 extremely ill women in the camp, because the Nazis had sent other remaining women on a death march. The Jewish Women of RavensbrÃ¼ck Concentration Camp reclaims the lost voices of the victims and restores the personal accounts of the survivors.
Country USA
Brand University of Wisconsin Press
Manufacturer University of Wisconsin Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 63 b/w images
ReleaseDate 2006-03-09
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780299198640

Country	USA
Brand	University of Wisconsin Press
Manufacturer	University of Wisconsin Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	63 b/w images
ReleaseDate	2006-03-09
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780299198640

The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp

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