Forced Labor for Siemens in the Women's Concentration Camp Ravensbrück : Reports from Contemporary Witnesses （Library Binding）

(IFK), The International Friends Association (EDT)

Berghahn Books（2026/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 354 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781836954422

Full Description

From August 1942 to April 1945, Siemens & Halske AG maintained its own so-called production facility adjacent to the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp, where up to 2,300 female prisoners were deployed in forced labor. This volume contains excerpts from letters, witness statements, arrest reports, diaries, compensation claims, autobiographies and interviews from Ravensbrück survivors who were forced to work in the armaments factory. The texts shed light on the system of forced labor in the context of the concentration camp, questions of discouragement and hope as well as the women's will for self-assertion and resistance

Contents

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Preface to the English Edition

Andrea Genest, Director, Ravensbrück Memorial Preface to the 2017 German Edition

Preface to the 2017 German Edition

Insa Eschebach, former Director, Ravensbrück Memorial

Prologue

Peter Plieninger, International Friends Association of the Ravensbrück Memorial

Introduction

Chapter 1. Siemens is now looking for prisoners: Establishment and Beginning of Production

Chapter 2. Siemens had a clever, sophisticated sSystem: Power Relations and Working Conditions

Chapter 3. The stomach always empty, the head sleepy: Living Conditions

Chapter 4. The whole assembly line had come to a standstill: Resistance and Sabotage

Chapter 5. Air raid alarm was one of the happiest moments: Liquidation and Liberation

Afterword

Short Biographies of the Eyewitnesses

Glossary

Index of Persons

Sources and References