5/20/2023 0 Comments If this is a woman by sarah helm![]() ![]() In the final months of the war, Ravensbrueck became an extermination camp. Only a small number of these women were Jewish Ravensbrueck was largely a place for the Nazis to eliminate other inferior beings-social outcasts, Gypsies, political enemies, foreign resisters, the sick, the disabled, and the "mad." Over six years the prisoners endured beatings, torture, slave labor, starvation, and random execution. By the end of the war 130,000 women from more than twenty different European countries had been imprisoned there among the prominent names were Genevieve de Gaulle, General de Gaulle's niece, and Gemma La Guardia Gluck, sister of the wartime mayor of New York. Their destination was Ravensbrueck, a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Holocaust. On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 867 women-housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes-was marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded in through giant gates. Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women (Audio CD / Audio, Library Edition) ![]()
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