The Jewish women of Ravensbrück concentration camp

Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Drawing upon more than sixty narratives and interviews of survivors in the United States, Israel, and Europe as well as unpublished testimonies, documents, and photographs from private archives, Saidel provides a portrait of Ravensbrück's Jewish women prisoners. 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. Met lit. opg. en index. xvii, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.