Jewish Women from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the Nazi Concentration Camp Ravensbrück
Jewish Women from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the Nazi Concentration Camp Ravensbrück

Summary/Abstract: The focus of this study is on Jewish women who, between 1939 and 1945, were deported from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to Ravensbrück, the central concentration camp for women in Nazi Germany. It concentrates on women who were interned by the German security forces before they would have been included in the mass deportations. The primary reason for their internment was not their Jewishness, but their illegal activities of various kinds, whether real or merely assumed. Attention is also paid to their non-Jewish compatriots who were interned because of their various ties to Jewish women in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. With the help of a number of concrete examples, this study details the various forms and scale of these activities, which illustrate the everyday interaction of the Jewish population with the outside world. In addition to drawing on sources of an official nature, this study is also based on the recollections of survivors, in particular Jewish women. Subsequent contacts between Jewish and non-Jewish women prisoners in the concentration camp are also explored. The Protectorate Jewish women and their non-Jewish compatriots figure in this study not as passive victims of racial persecution, but as active participants in the historical events.

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