The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbrück: Who Were They?
Agassi, Judith Buber / Jacobeit, Sigrid
Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the site of murder by slave labour, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, medical experimentation, and gassing. In its six-year history, 132, 000 women from twenty-seven countries were imprisoned in Ravensbruck. Only about 15, 000 in all survived. The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbruck reclaims the lost identities of these victims. Tog...