Mlade Slovenke v mladinskem zaščitnem taborišču Uckermark ter po letu 1945 v Sloveniji
Young Slovene Women in 'The Uckermark Youth Protective Custody Camp' and, after 1945, in Slovenia
Author(s): Silvija KavčičContributor(s): Marko Potrč (Translator)
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Oral history, Social history, Gender history, Studies in violence and power, Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino
Keywords: Second World War; concentration camps; violence; youth; women;
Summary/Abstract: On the basis of oral sources, in the absence of documentation, the author presents the life of the female prisoners in the Uckermark Youth Protective Custody Camp. This camp, which was built before 1942 as a part of the Nazi Ravensbrück concentration camp, saw the arrival of the first Slovene women in 1943 and 1944. Most of these women, cynically referred to as 'camp boarders', were a few years younger than those imprisoned at Ravensbrück. In both the Uckermark and the central Ravensbrück concentration camps, women were ill-treated and humiliated through beating, arbitrary punishment and shaving of hair, while being exploited as free labor and underfed. The author further presents the organization of the former camp prisoners after the Second World War in Slovenia.
Journal: Prispevki za novejšo zgodovino (before 1960: Prispevki za zgodovino delavskega gibanja)
- Issue Year: 41/2001
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 87-96
- Page Count: 10
- Language: Slovenian