"Voice to the silent" Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the site of murder by slave labor, 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. " Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbruck "reclaims the lost identities of these victims. Together with a team of researchers, Judith Buber Agassi interviewed 138 survivors of Ravensbruck on four continents. Using the...
"Voice to the silent" Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the site of murder by slave...