If This is a Woman
Subtitle: Inside Ravensbrück: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
By: Sarah Helm
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2016-06-07
Language: eng
Number of pages: 748
ISBN-13: 9780349120034
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Ravensbrück (Concentration camp); Women concentration camp inmates; Women prisoners; World War, 1939-1945; German Prisoners and prisons
Work titles: Ravensbrück
Description: 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. Whipping and kicking them were scores of German women guards. Their destination was Ravensbrück, a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Nazi genocide. For decades the story of Ravensbrück was hidden behind the Iron Curtain and today is still little known. 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.
Notes: Originally published under title: Ravensbrück. London : Little, Brown, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 703-715) and index.