If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
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...
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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 specif
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781408705384 (1408705389)
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 768
Edition language: English
I first encountered Ravensbruck at age 10, when I read The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom’s wartime memoir, for school. Although Corrie and her sister Betsie were not imprisoned in Ravensbrück for very long, the book made an instant and indelible impression on me; it’s partly or mostly responsible fo...
I recently finished reading Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women, by Sarah Helm. I had to put it down for a couple of weeks afterward before I could gather my thoughts sufficiently well to write a review. I found this read both profoundly insightful and deeply disturb...
I could not put this book down, started reading at bedtime and did not crash until I finished. Great book that details the Nazi female concentration camp, Ravensbruck. I highly recommend for anyone interested in this era. I received a copy of this book from NetGalley for an honest review.
Disclaimer: ARC via Netgalley. Is anyone else, besides me, tired of movies where men do everything and are the heroes and women are mere appendages? Why, for instance, are heroic men usually highlighted in various ways from best Oscar nods to HBO mini-series to be the detective who...
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