Ravensbruck - Everyday Life in a Women's Concentration Camp 1935-45

Attempting to reconstruct the workings of everyday life in the concentration camp at Ravensbrück, the only camp in the Nazi system designed for women, Morrison 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 (Ravensbrück 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. This book is designed to make it possible for today¿s generation of students and general readers to imagine what daily life in a concentration camp may have been like.

Riassunto

This is a reconstruction of life in a World War II concentration camp. It presents a case study of how women of different nationalities and social backgrounds coped for years with lack of food and basic sanitation, illnesses, prejudices and death by carving out their own cultural life.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jack Morrison, Jack G. Morrison
• Editore: Wiener, markus, publishing
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.06.1999
• EAN: 9781558762183
• ISBN: 978-1-55876-218-3
• Dimensioni: 146 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni