Research Catalog

Title

If this is a woman : inside Ravensbrück : Hitler's concentration camp for women / Sarah Helm.

Author

Helm, Sarah

Publication

London Little, Brown, 2015.

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Details

Description

xviii, 748 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded through giant gates. Whipping and kicking them were scores of German women guards. Their destination was Ravensbrück, a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Nazi genocide. For decades the story of Ravensbrück was hidden behind the Iron Curtain and today is still little known. Using testimony unearthed since the end of the Cold War, and interviews with survivors who have never spoken before, Helm has ventured into the heart of the camp, demonstrating for the reader in riveting detail how easily and quickly the unthinkable horror evolved.

Subjects

• Women Nazi concentration camp inmates > Germany > Ravensbrück
• World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German
• Women prisoners > Germany > Ravensbrück
• Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [659]-715) and index.

Call Number

JFE 15-1780

ISBN

• 9781408705384 (paperback)
• 1408705389 (paperback)
• 9781408701072 (hardback)
• 1408701073 (hardback)

OCLC

900098728

Author

Helm, Sarah, author.

Title

If this is a woman : inside Ravensbrück : Hitler's concentration camp for women / Sarah Helm.

Publisher

London Little, Brown, 2015.

Type of Content

text

cartographic image

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [659]-715) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-1780