'A sense of urgency infuses this history, which comes just in time to gather the testimony of the camp's survivors. 'It not only fills a gap in Holocaust history but it is an utterly compelling read' Taylor Downing, History Today It details the extremes of cruelty enacted by SS guards and of suffering experienced by the prisoners, who were themselves reduced to inhuman acts. Using testimony unearthed since the end of the Cold War, and interviews with survivors who have never spoken before, Helm has ventured into the heart of the camp, demonstrating for the reader in riveting detail how easily and quickly the unthinkable horror evolved. Based on meticulous research, If This Is A Womanlays bare the systematic brutalisation of mothers, pregnant women, children and babies. Their destination was Ravensbrück, a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Nazi genocide.įor decades the story of Ravensbrück was hidden behind the Iron Curtain and today is still little known. In If This is a Woman, Sarah Helm has written utterly phenomenal study. Whipping and kicking them were scores of German women guards. Using material once locked behind the Iron Curtain, Sarah Helm has performed a tremendous feat of historical rescue: this book at last gives full voice to the women of Ravensbrück, one of the most notorious womens prisons in history, for the very first time Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag Compelling. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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. Buy If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women by Helm, Sarah (ISBN: 9781408705384) from Amazons Book Store. Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize: A 'profoundly moving chronicle' ( Observer) that tells the story of Ravensbrück, the only concentration camp designed specifically for women, using new testimony from survivors

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