Sarah Helm's Ravensbruck: A Comprehensive Account of Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women

KT Conter: Nothing about this book is an easy read. The story of this camp is important and incredibly well researched. The lives of the women and children who lived and died in the Ravensbrück camp were filled with misery and horror. There were many periods I had to put the book down—sometimes for weeks, because I was so horrified by what I read. And yet, I’m so grateful to Sarah Helm for sharing this history with us.

United States on Sep 03, 2023

Muhammad Nizam Bin Mohtar: A well written book. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

United States on Aug 11, 2023

Suzanne Fortier: Très bon achat. Livraison dans les temps.

Canada on Jun 28, 2021

Dijana Grujic: Great source of information..

Canada on May 15, 2020

noel Humphries: every thing went to plan

United Kingdom on Nov 15, 2018

norman: A monstrous regime.Poor women.

United Kingdom on Apr 30, 2017

Bonnie: Very detailed and full of shock segments. Beware this book is the same book as the one titled " If this is a woman" . I bought both books and they are exactly the same so just get on or the other.

Canada on Apr 14, 2017

Bibliophile without Borders: It has been several days since I finished this book and I am still absorbing it. I have read a lot on Ravensbruck, even to the point of researching in libraries and online. I had wished for a well-researched book that would detail all the points I was missing because I wanted to truly understand more.

And Ms Helm's book is the book I have been waiting for, a triumph of meticulous research, of painstaking fact-checking in at least 5 countries that I can recall, including her most extraordinary race to interview the last remaining witnesses and victims to the atrocities of this camp. How did she do it? How did she get them to talk, when they had been silent for so long? I don’t know, but her book is written with such compassion and conviction, that I assume that the survivors understood her as she understood them. She wanted to chronicle the truth before time ran out. To tell us all and help us understand. Her timeline is difficult and yet she is able to keep track of all the events, blending and building on events and people, and making this many-layered book into an almost seamless chronology.

In the wider story of the Holocaust, Ravensbruck is not a camp that...

United States on Jun 25, 2015

Four Bears: Ravensbrűck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm

First published in 2014 in the UK where the title was If This is a Woman
First of all the UK title comes from Primo Levi’s book If This is a Man (often titled Survival In Auschwitz in the US:
Consider if this is a woman
Without hair and without name
With no more strength to remember
Her eyes empty and he womb cold
Like a frog in winter.
Meditate that this came about:
I commend these words to you.

This is a remarkable book and not only because the author tells a part of the German concentration camp story that’s not generally know. I’ve read a lot about WWII (not at all an expert mind you) and before reading this book knew only the name of the camp and that it was for women.

What’s most remarkable about this book is the characters that she manages to bring to life, the women who lived this nightmare primarily but also the women who were their guards and doctors, the SS men who ran Ravensbrűck and its satellite camps, and the various people and organizations who form part of its story: Himmler who planned and managed all the camps, and the Swede,...

United States on Jun 23, 2015