Ravensbrück : life and death in Hitler's concentration camp for women / Sarah Helm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helm, Sarah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ravensbrück (Concentration camp).

Women internment camp inmates--Germany--Ravensbrück.

Women internment camp inmates.

Women Nazi concentration camp inmates--Germany--Ravensbrück.

Women Nazi concentration camp inmates.

Women prisoners.

Germany--Ravensbrück.

Women prisoners--Germany--Ravensbrück.

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 743 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First United States edition.

Other Title:

Life and death in Hitler's concentration camp for women

Place of Publication:

New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2015]

Summary:

Traces the sobering history of World War II's largest female concentration camp, revealing the torturous experiences and deaths of thousands of women prisoners of more than twenty nationalities.

Contents:

Part one. Langefeld ; Sandgrube ; Blockovas ; Himmler visits ; Stalin's gift ; Else Krug ; Doctor Sontag ; Doctor Mennecke ; Bernburg

Part two. Lublin ; Auschwitz ; Sewing ; Rabbits ; Special experiments ; Healing

Part three. Red Army ; Yevgenia Klemm ; Doctor Treite ; Breaking the circle ; Black transport

Part four. Vingt-sept Mille ; Falling ; Hanging on ; Reaching out

Part five. Paris and Warsaw ; Kinderzimmer ; Protest ; Overtures ; Doctor Loulou

Part six. Hungarians ; A children's party ; Death march ; Youth camp ; Hiding ; Königsburg ; Bernadotte ; Emilie ; Nelly ; Masur ; White buses ; Liberation.

Notes:

"Published in Great Britain as If this is a woman by Little, Brown, an imprint of the Little, Brown Book Group, a Hachette UK Company, London"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 709-721) and index.

ISBN:

9780385520591

038552059X

OCLC:

879329692