The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp by Rochelle G. Saidel Discount held at the Yiddish Book

held at the Yiddish Book Center April 8-10

More than 70 years later

neo-Yiddish cabaret

All the stories in this collection deal with the afterlife of Holocaust survivors in North America

going back to its first historical mentions

The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp by Rochelle G. Saidel Discount held at the Yiddish BookRavensbrck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Located about fifty miles north of Berlin, the camp was the site of murder by slave labor, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, "medical" experimentation, and gassing. While this camp was designed to hold 5,000 women, the actual figure was six times this number. Between 1939 and 1945, 132,000 women from twenty three countries were imprisoned in Ravensbrck, including political