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It was intended to house about 1980s. Until then, with the notable 3,000 women, but over the years it exception of Anne Frank's diary (she held as many as 43,000 at one time. would have turned 75 years old on Up to 1,100 women were forced June 12) and the work of historian into barracks intended for 240. Lucy Dawidowicz, men — including According to Saidel, this deliberate venerable figures such as Eli Weisel, overcrowding was one way of murder- Andre Schwatzbard, Primo Levi and ing the inmates. With so Yehuda Bauer — have been many women being the predominant voices in crowded into each small Holocaust literature. THE JEWS H WOMEN OF . shed, the inmates were In 1983, the Conference Ir RAVEN SBRKK crushed and suffocated. on Women Surviving the CONCENTRA TION CAMP Others were killed through Holocaust in New York the vicious means we are marked the first attempt to more familiar with: slave strengthen the voices of labor, torture, starvation, women in the study of the shooting, lethal injection, Holocaust, positing that "medical" experimentation gender mattered to victims and gassing. and victimizers alike. But death is not the sole Since then, there has focus of Saidel's book. She been great effort on the shows that the women, part of a small but deter- despite the terror, resisted mined group of researchers in ways that "lifted the spirit." The and authors to insert women's specific women struggled to survive and even voices, experiences and analyses into persevere in particularly feminine the canon of Holocaust studies. ways. Daily life is described vividly as The just-published The Jewish women are quoted talking about their Women of Ravensbruck Concentration fears, hopes and friendships. Camp (University of Wisconsin Press; It is almost incomprehensible to $29.95) is one stark, sensitive and many readers today, and yet strangely deeply moving example of such uplifting. efforts. Ravensbriick, the only concen- To sustain a sense of humanity and tration and death camp established community, the women created art, solely for women, claims the highest death rate of all the camps on German wrote and performed plays, helped each other maintain hygienic condi- soil. Some of the Nazis' most horrific tions, gave each other small gifts and medical experiments were performed taught each other Bible and literature. there, yet it is one of the least known They even shared memories of camps. recipes. Since having any kind of Thanks to Rochelle Saidel's sensitive paper (even toilet paper) was punish- interviews and meticulous research, able by death, this was a particularly together with the many previously courageous form of resistance. unpublished photographs and haunt- Of course, Saidel notes, these testi- ing drawings by the inmates, this book monies are a blend of memory and will increase public recognition of history, and individual women's expe- Ravensbrtick's victims and survivors. riences cannot provide a comprehen- Saidel's book is the culmination of sive overview of the camp. Sometimes more than 20 years of research. As a a survivor told Saidel a story that no political scientist who specializes in one else mentioned. In one particular- women's experiences in the Holocaust at the Remember the Women Institute ly harrowing testimony, a woman describes seeing a building filled with in New York, she interviewed more young women who had their tongues than 60 survivors in the United States, EETA PRINCE-GIBSON The Jerusalem Post call for reservations *248.373.4440 885 N. Opdyke, Auburn Hills • (12 Mile North of Silverdome) Suer On the 75th anniversary of Anne Frank's birth, author gives voice to other women in the Holocaust.