die Geschichte der Frauenaußenlager des Konzentrationslagers Neuengamme 1944/45
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ellger, Hans
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- DUI 1G 2007
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenconcentratiekampen, nationaal socialisme, beleid, slavernij, dagelijks leven, psychologie, joodse vrouwen, levensgeschiedenissen, Duitsland, tweede wereldoorlog
- Description
- In the last years of World War II there were 24 relatively small women's labour camps under the governance of the concentration camp of Neuengamme in North-West Germany. Of the 13700 prisoners, about one third were Jewish women. The women had to work in factories and on building sites. In april of 1945 the women were transported to Bergen-Belsen, and many of them died there in the last few days of the war. This study is based on interviews with more than 80 of the 120 women who were still alive in the period of this study, 1998 -2002. The emphasis of the study is on survival strategies of the women in the face of national socialist policies of forced labour and the conditions (hunger, violence. lack of cloths and health care) in the concentrationcamps. Ellger also pays attention to the histories of individual women, Jewish and non-Jewish prisoners and SS-guards, during and after the war.