{"product_id":"the-jewish-women-of-ravensbrck-concentration-camp-9780299198640","title":"The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp","description":"Ravensbr ck 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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 Ravensbr ck, 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.\u003cbr\u003e Drawing upon more than sixty narratives and interviews of survivors in the United States, Israel, and Europe as well as unpublished testimonies, documents, and photographs from private archives, Rochelle Saidel provides a vivid collective and individual portrait of Ravensbr ck's Jewish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.\u003cbr\u003e On April 30, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated Ravensbr ck. They found only 3,000 extremely ill women in the camp, because the Nazis had sent other remaining women on a death march. The \u003ci\u003eJewish Women of Ravensbr ck Concentration Camp\u003c\/i\u003e reclaims the lost voices of the victims and restores the personal accounts of the survivors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299198640\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2005 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rochelle G. Saidel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37862162235573,"sku":"9780299198640","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ad47cc1a-c250-4882-b862-1c372179c62c.jpg?v=1607502965","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-jewish-women-of-ravensbrck-concentration-camp-9780299198640","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}