If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women (118 page)

A pre-war portrait of the German Jewish communist Olga Benario

Doris Maase, the German doctor and communist released in 1942, photographed in 1944

Ilse Gostynski, the German Jewish communist prisoner, photographed in Berlin in the 1920s

Jozka Jaburkova, the Czech communist and women’s rights campaigner

Anna Sölzer, arrested in Cologne for prostitution and sent to Ravensbrück as an ‘asocial’

Käthe Leichter, the Austrian Jewish sociologist, by the Danube canal near Klosterneuburg, where before the war she and her husband Otto spent holidays

Grete Buber-Neumann, prisoner of Stalin and Hitler, speaking at a rally organised by the European Youth Organisation in Berlin, June 1952

Herta Cohen, the German Jewish woman imprisoned for having sexual intercourse with a man with German blood

Wanda Wojtasik (later Półtawska), one of the Lublin ‘rabbits’

Milena Jesenska, the campaigning Czech journalist and former lover of Franz Kafka

Krysia Czyż, the Polish ‘rabbit’ and secret letter-writer. The portrait was drawn by fellow Ravensbrück prisoner Grażyna Chrostowska when the two women were first imprisoned in Lublin Castle

The sisters Grażyna (seated) and Pola Chrostowska in the countryside near their home town of Lublin, 1930s

Digging in the sand: a photograph from the SS album