Wrota piekieł. Ravensbrücke
A Gateway to Hell. Ravensbrücke

Author(s): Anja Lundholm
Subject(s): History, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
Published by: Ośrodek KARTA
Keywords: extermination camp; Nazism; Ravensbrück; women; prisoners; Third Reich; Germany; Hitler
Summary/Abstract: The Ravensbrück concentration camp at its final stage. The narration oscillates between a sense of hopelessness and the will of survival, capitulation and rebellion, creating a moving record of extreme experience. Nomination for the Nobel Prize in literature in 1974.Anja Lundholm (1918–2007), daughter of a German Jewish mother and a fervent Nazi father. In the 1930s, her father joined the SS and her mother committed suicide after the pogroms of the “Night of Broken Glass.” Lundholm studied in Berlin. In 1941, she escaped from Berlin to Rome, where she established contacts with the resistance movement. Denounced by her own father she was arrested, passed through several prisons, and was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in March 1944. That experience affected her in both physical and psychological terms for the rest of her life.

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