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Rochelle G. Saidel

The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp Hardcover – April 15, 2004

by Rochelle G. Saidel (Author)

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    Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Located about fifty miles north of Berlin, the camp was the site of murder by slave labor, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, "medical" experimentation, and gassing.
    While this camp was designed to hold 5,000 women, the actual figure was six times this number. Between 1939 and 1945, 132,000 women from twenty-three countries were imprisoned in Ravensbrück, including political prisoners, Jehovah's Witnesses, "asocials" (including Gypsies, prostitutes, and lesbians), criminals, and Jewish women (who made up about 20 percent of the population). Only 15,000 survived.
    Drawing upon more than sixty narratives and interviews of survivors in the United States, Israel, and Europe as well as unpublished testimonies, documents, and photographs from private archives, Rochelle Saidel provides a vivid collective and individual portrait of Ravensbrück’s Jewish women prisoners. She worked for over twenty years to track down these women whose poignant testimonies deserve to be shared with a wider audience and future generations. 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.
    On April 30, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated Ravensbrück. They found only 3,000 extremely ill women in the camp, because the Nazis had sent other remaining women on a death march. The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp reclaims the lost voices of the victims and restores the personal accounts of the survivors.

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336 pages
Language

English
Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date

April 15, 2004
Dimensions

6 x 1 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

029919860X
ISBN-13

978-0299198602
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"Saidel's goal is to make visible a previously ignored aspect of women's Holocaust history. . . . In bringing to light the experiences of the women of Ravensbrück concentration camp, Saidel adds to our knowledge of Jewish survival in the genocidal conditions created by the Nazis."—Rochelle G. Ruthchild, Women's Review of Books

"Thanks to Rochelle Saidel's sensitive interviews and meticulous research, together with the many previously unpublished photographs and haunting drawings by the inmates, this book will increase public recognition of Ravensbrück's victims and survivors. With this, The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp takes its honorable place in the growing genre of gender study of the Holocaust."—Eetta Prince-Gibson, Jerusalem Post

From the Publisher

Publication of this book is made possible in part by the support of the Five Millers Family Foundation, the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, the Richard J. and Joan G.

Terrace Books, a trade imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Wisconsin Press; 1st edition (April 15, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 029919860X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0299198602
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.29 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,576,483 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #428 in Women's Studies History (Books)
- #6,466 in Jewish Holocaust History
- #15,809 in Women in History

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Eva Kemp

Reading about a camp that did not get enough publicity

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2021

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I found this book both fascinating and horrific. I lived in the UK through this period of history and although was probably more personally involved that people in the USA, it nevertheless left me horrified that we did not know about this camp as much as we did about
Auchwitz and Belson.

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Susan J. Harris

The Jewish Women of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp

Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2013

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I have a dear friend who survived Ravensbruck, and her story is highlighted in the book. The strength of this woman to have gone through this, and go on to have a family with two children is amazing. She is now 90 years old, and still haunted by this evil experience, but she's still here, and I treasure her very being.

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r.winters

good addition to library

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2014

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This book is just what it claims to be. As all Holocaust accounts are it raises rage, pity, sorrow and other tragic emotions. But a valuable addition to the Holocaust library, dealing as it does with the jour en jour experience.

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Xander's Mom

I would recommend it even if you have read other similar books

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2015

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A very fascinating account that gives you a real feel for what the Jewish Women went through. I would recommend it even if you have read other similar books.

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2017

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Good book. Alot of facts. A sad time. Went on to read more about the camp

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DeeAnna England

Excellent