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Title: The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbrück
Condition: New
Author: Judith Buber Agassi
Publisher: Texas Tech Press,U.S.
EAN: 9780896728721
Format: Paperback
Contributor: Sigrid Jacobeit (Foreword by)
Subtitle: Who Were They?
ISBN: 9780896728721
Release Date: 01/08/2014
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Social Sciences, Military History, Society & Culture
Type: Paperback
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 550g
Series: Modern Jewish History
Item Width: 25mm
Release Year: 2014
Description: Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the site of murder by slave labour, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, medical experimentation, and gassing. In its six-year history, 132,000 women from twenty-seven countries were imprisoned in Ravensbrück. Only about 15,000 in all survived.

The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbrück reclaims the lost identities of these victims. Together with a team of researchers, Judith Buber Agassi interviewed 138 survivors of Ravensbrück on four continents. Using the survivor testimonies to corroborate her research from major archives in Germany, Israel, and the United States, as well as from transport and death registration lists and from records that were smuggled out of the camp before liberation, Buber Agassi constructs an image of the women of Ravensbrück: their countries of origin, age distribution, professional roles prior to the war, religious backgrounds, and the types of social interactions and emotional support that existed among and between the various groups of women. To date, Buber Agassi has recovered the identity of over 16,000 Ravensbrück prisoners.

Now in paperback, this study of Ravenbrück, largely overlooked in favour of more notorious killing campus, continues the female approach to understanding the Holocaust.

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