The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück
How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp
The extraordinary true story of a small group of Frenchwomen, all Resistance members, who banded together in a notorious all female concentration camp to defy the Nazis—from the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade's Secret War
Decades after the end of World War II, the name Ravensbrück still evokes horror for those who have learned about this infamous all-women’s concentration camp, now much better known since it became the setting of Martha Hall Kelly’s bestselling novel, Lilac Girls. Particularly shocking were the medical experiments performed on some of the inmates. Ravensbrück was atypical in other ways as well, not just as the only all-female German concentration camp, but because 80% of the inmates were political prisoners. Among them was…
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June 3, 2025
Lynne Olson is the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade’s Secret War, Last Hope Island, Those Angry Days, and Citizens of London. She has been a consulting historian for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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