5/12/2023 0 Comments If this is a woman by sarah helm![]() ![]() Estimates of the final death toll by April 1945 have ranged from 30,000 to 90,000. In the final months of the war, Ravensbrück became an extermination camp. ![]() Over six years the prisoners endured beatings, torture, slave labor, starvation, and random execution. ![]() Only a small number of these women were Jewish Ravensbrück was largely a place for the Nazis to eliminate other inferior beings - social outcasts, Gypsies, political enemies, foreign resisters, the sick, the disabled, and the "mad". By the end of the war 130,000 women from more than 20 different European countries had been imprisoned there among the prominent names were Geneviève de Gaulle, General de Gaulle's niece, and Gemma La Guardia Gluck, sister of the wartime mayor of New York. Their destination was Ravensbrück, a concentration camp designed specifically for women by Heinrich Himmler, prime architect of the Holocaust. Whipping and kicking them were scores of German women guards. On a sunny morning in May 1939, a phalanx of 867 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - was marched through the woods 50 miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded in through giant gates. employees are more likely to have a CEO named David or Michael than they are to have a woman at the helm. ![]()
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