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The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp

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Updated: June 3, 2025

Content length: 384 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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The extraordinary true story of a small group of Frenchwomen, all Resistance members, who banded together in a notorious concentration camp to defy the Nazis—from the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade’s Secret War “At once heartbreaking and beautifully told, this is a masterwork of nonfiction, a must-read for anyone who wants more of the incredible true story behind Lilac Girls.”—Martha Hall Kelly, author of Lilac Girls ONE OF THE TOP TEN BOOKS OF JUNE—The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times Decades after the end of World War II, the name Ravensbrück still evokes horror for those with knowledge of this infamous all-women’s concentration camp, 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 percent of its inmates were political prisoners, among them a tight-knit group of women who had been active in the French Resistance.

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A gripping work of narrative history from bestselling historian Lynne Olson, this book follows a tight-knit circle of French résistantes whose solidarity at Ravensbrück—the Nazis’ only main concentration camp built almost exclusively for women—turns survival into defiance. You’ll see how these women sabotaged factory output, shielded one another from “medical” experiments, and sustained morale with clandestine culture—then carried their fight into the postwar push for justice. It’s harrowing and humane, and it reframes World War II through the lens of courage, friendship, and collective resistance.