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100 1 $aBuber Agassi, Judith,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe Jewish women prisoners of Ravensbrück: who were they? /$cJudith Buber Agassi.
264 1 $aLubbock :$bTexas Tech University Press,$c[2014]
300 $axx, 336 pages :$billustrations, maps, portraits ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aModern Jewish history
500 $a"First English edition published by Oneworld Publications, copyright c 2007 by Judith Buber Agassi"--Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 00 $tForeword --$tOrigin of the project: my personal interest in Ravensbrück --$tIs true historical reconstruction possible? --$tJewish prisoners of Ravensbrück: who were they? --$tFirst period --$tSecond period - from Bernburg to Auschwitz --$tThird period - the special groups --$tFourth period - August 1944 to end of 1944: the floodgates open --$tFifth period - the last stage --$tSumming up: the place of Ravensbrück in the Holocaust of Jewish women --
505 80 $tSocial ties and moral survival --$tDiagrams --$tLiterature concerning the Jewish prisoners of Ravensbrück --$tList of interviews --$gAppendix.$tList of major camps and ghettos from which Jewish prisoners of Ravensbrück came --$tList of major camps to which Jewish prisoners of Ravensbrück were sent --$tMaps.
520 1 $a"Ravensbrück was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the site of murder by slave labor, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, medical experimentation, and gassing. In its six-year history, 132,000 women from twenty-seven countries were imprisoned in Ravensbrück. Only about 15,000 in all survived. 'The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbrück reclaims the lost identities of these victims. Together with a team of researchers, Judith Buber Agassi interviewed 138 survivors of Ravensbrück on four continents.
520 8 $aUsing the survivor testimonies to corroborate her research from major archives in Germany, Israel, and the United States, as well as from transport and death registration lists and from records that were smuggled out of the camp before liberation, Buber Agassi constructs an image of the women of Ravensbrück: their countries of origin, age distribution, professional roles prior to the war, religious backgrounds, and the types of social interactions and emotional support that existed among and between the various groups of women.
520 8 $aTo date, Buber Agassi has recovered the identities of over 16,000 Ravensbrück prisoners. Now in paperback, this study of Ravensbrück, largely overlooked in favor of more notorious killing camps, brings to the forefront a unique set of Holocaust victims. The daughter of a Ravensbrück survivor, Judith Buber Agassi has taught sociology and political science at universities in the United States, Canada, Israel, Germany, and Hong Kong. She currently resides in Tel Aviv with her family"--Book cover, page [4].
610 20 $aRavensbrück (Concentration camp)
650 0 $aWomen prisoners$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xWomen.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xJews.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, German.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1602/2014933156-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1602/2014933156-d.html