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„Lágrové Madony“
“Camp Madonnas”.

Various Forms of Maternity in the Ravensbrück Nazi Concentration Camp

Author(s): Pavla Plachá
Subject(s): WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: Ravensbrück concentration camp;sterilisation;abortions;prisoners;psychological trauma;

Summary/Abstract: Removing children from their mothers, forced sterilisation and abortions or the killings of newborn babies were a common part of the persecution in the women’s concentration camp in Ravensbrück. Many of the surviving prisoners spent their whole lives trying to cope with the trauma they had experienced.

  • Issue Year: XV/2021
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 22-37
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Czech
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