The Jewish Women of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp.(Book review)

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The Jewish Women of Ravensbruck Concentration Camp, by Rochelle G. Saidel. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. 279 pp. $21.90.

As the number of Holocaust survivors who are able to tell their histories decreases, the urgency increases to leave a record of their experiences. It is this that has motivated Dr. Rochelle Saidel to document the experiences of the inmates of Ravensbruck concentration camp and, in particular, those of the Jewish inmates of Ravensbruck. In so doing, she has provided a well-researched account that is valuable both to scholars of the Holocaust ...

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