Ravensbrück
Everyday Life in a Women's Concentration Camp, 1939-45
Description:... Attempting to reconstruct the workings of everyday life in the concentration camp at Ravensbruck--the only camp in the Nazi system designed for women--Morrison (history, Shippensburg U.) examines the prisoners' social relationships with each other and their overlords; prisoner activities, from bartering to storytelling, from political maneuvering to coping with body lice, and, of course, the kinds of forced labor performed (Ravensbruck was a labor camp, not an extermination camp); and the occurrences of sickness, death, and killing at the camp. The volume is illustrated with drawings by inmates, and photos by the SS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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