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Book

Ravensbrück : life and death in Hitler's concentration camp for women

Call Number

  • 940.5318 H478 (CEN)

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Edition

First Anchor Books edition.

Publication Information

New York : Anchor Books, 2016.

Physical Description

xxiv, 743 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm

Uniform Title

If this is a woman

Summary

Traces the sobering history of World War II's largest female concentration camp, revealing the torturous experiences and deaths of thousands of women prisoners of more than twenty nationalities.

Notes

Originally published as: If this is a woman : the untold story of heroism and survival inside the Nazi's women-only concentration camp. London : Little, Brown, 2014.

Contents

  • Langefeld
  • Sandgrube
  • Blockovas
  • Himmler visits
  • Stalin's gift
  • Else Krug
  • Doctor Sonntag
  • Doctor Mennecke
  • Bernburg
  • Lublin
  • Auschwitz
  • Sewing
  • Rabbits
  • Special experiments
  • Healing
  • Red Army
  • Yevgenia Klemm
  • Doctor Treite
  • Breaking the circle
  • Black transport
  • Vingt-sept mille
  • Falling
  • Hanging on
  • Reaching out
  • Paris and Warsaw
  • Kinderzimmer
  • Protest
  • Overtures
  • Doctor Loulou
  • Hungarians
  • A children's party
  • Death march
  • Youth camp
  • Hiding
  • Königsberg
  • Bernadotte
  • Emilie
  • Nelly
  • Masur
  • White buses
  • Liberation.

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