| Edition |
First United States edition. |
| Description |
xxiv, 743 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 709-721) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
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Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) |
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Women internment camp inmates -- Germany -- Ravensbrück.
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Women Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Germany -- Ravensbrück.
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Women internment camp inmates. |
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Germany -- Ravensbrück. |
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Women prisoners -- Germany -- Ravensbrück.
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Women prisoners. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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World War (1939-1945) |
| Added Title |
Life and death in Hitler's concentration camp for women |
| ISBN |
038552059X (hardback) |
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9780385520591 (hardback) : $37.50 |
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