The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbrück: Who Were They?

by Judith Buber Agassi

Book Overview

Ravensbr ck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the site of murder by slave labor, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, medical experimentation, and gassing. In its six-year history, 132,000 women from twenty-seven countries were imprisoned in Ravensbr ck. Only about 15,000 in all survived. Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbr ck reclaims the lost identities of these victims. Together with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896728722
• ISBN13: 9780896728721
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"