The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbrück : Who Were They? /

To date, Buber Agassi has recovered the identities of over 16,000 Ravensbrück prisoners. Now in paperback, this study of Ravensbrück, largely overlooked in favor of more notorious killing camps, brings to the forefront a unique set of Holocaust victims. The daughter of a Ravensbrück survivor, Jud...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Buber Agassi, Judith (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Women prisoners.
Women.
Jews.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Juifs.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Femmes.
Prisonnieres > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siecle.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
World War, 1939-1945 > Jews.
World War, 1939-1945 > Women.
Women prisoners > Germany > History > 20th century.
Germany.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:To date, Buber Agassi has recovered the identities of over 16,000 Ravensbrück prisoners. Now in paperback, this study of Ravensbrück, largely overlooked in favor of more notorious killing camps, brings to the forefront a unique set of Holocaust victims. The daughter of a Ravensbrück survivor, Judith Buber Agassi has taught sociology and political science at universities in the United States, Canada, Israel, Germany, and Hong Kong. She currently resides in Tel Aviv with her family"--Book cover, page [4].
Using the survivor testimonies to corroborate her research from major archives in Germany, Israel, and the United States, as well as from transport and death registration lists and from records that were smuggled out of the camp before liberation, Buber Agassi constructs an image of the women of Ravensbrück: their countries of origin, age distribution, professional roles prior to the war, religious backgrounds, and the types of social interactions and emotional support that existed among and between the various groups of women.
"Ravensbrück 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 Ravensbrück. Only about 15,000 in all survived. 'The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbrück reclaims the lost identities of these victims. Together with a team of researchers, Judith Buber Agassi interviewed 138 survivors of Ravensbrück on four continents.
Notas:"First English edition published by Oneworld Publications, copyright c 2007 by Judith Buber Agassi"--Title page verso.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (352 pages): illustrations, maps, portraits ;
ISBN:9780896728738

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