If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women (136 page)

Benario Prestes, Anita
14
,
22
,
39
–
40
,
58
–
60
,
100
–
1
,
151

Benesch, Susi
28
,
43
,
71
,
79

Benesch, Tanja
28

Benevisti, Allegra
482
,
484
–
7

Benevisti, Berry
485
–
7

Benoist, Robert
401
,
427n

Berlin Olympic Games
14
,
212
,
228

Bernadotte, Count Folke
435
–
6
,
538n
; assassination
656
; negotiations with Himmler
539
–
40
,
543
,
562
–
4
,
569
,
587
–
90
,
592
,
597
,
606

Bernard, Jacqueline
424
,
523
,
524

Bernburg euthanasia centre
154
–
5
,
182
–
3
,
232
,
288

Berndorf munitions plant
474
,
582

Berner, Ira
79

Bernigau, Jane
30
,
143
–
4
,
148

Bernstein, Alice
63

Bertl, Josef
143
,
501
,
508
,
555

Bertram, Lina
128
,
133
,
145

Biega, Maria
203

Bielicka, Maria
159
–
60
,
163
–
5
,
175
–
6
,
196
,
205
,
247
,
289
,
310
,
657
; description of Halina Chorążyna
203n
; evacuation and escape
615
,
617
,
631
–
2
; and medical experiments
215
,
224
–
5

Binder, Gustav
198
–
202
,
280
–
1
,
640

Binder, Martha
201
–
2

Bingel, Rudolf
197
,
239
–
40
,
285

Binz, Dorothea
66
,
98
,
180
,
207
,
212
,
292
,
307
,
334
,
382
,
429
,
438
,
551
; arrest, trial and execution
636
–
8
,
640
; and Block 10:
444
,
453
; and British prisoners
598
–
9
; and children’s party
476
; her dog
221
,
282
,
283
,
356
; and execution of SOE women
527
; her family
47
–
8
,
195
–
6
; and final evacuation
618
,
621
; and French prisoners
362
,
366
; and last days
514
,
521
,
566
–
7
,
586
,
612
; named in broadcasts
343
,
521
; and prisoner releases
566
–
7
; relationship with Bräuning
356
,
376
,
444
; and Soviet prisoners
279
,
281
–
2
,
284
; and Warsaw women
408
,
411

Binz, Rose
48
,
628

Binz, Walter
48

Birkenau
190
,
293
,
310
,
483
,
485
,
488
–
9
,
491
–
3
,
501

Bitterhof, Leni
172
–
3

Blacarova Fischerova, Milena
550

black transports
288
,
336
–
43
,
368
–
9
,
386
,
453
–
5
,
493
,
650

Blass, Waltraud
652

Bloch, Denise
401
–
2
,
427
,
431
–
2
,
522
–
5
,
528

Block 10:
442
–
55
,
495
,
516
,
546
,
548
,
558
,
560
,
598
,
642
,
657
; and black transports
453
–
5
;
Idiotenstübchen
448
–
53
; poisoning experiment
515
,
541
; and prisoner releases
567
,
596
–
7

Block 32:
366
–
7
,
385

Blockovas: appointment of
34
,
51
–
3
; and cooperation with SS
82
–
3
; and euthanasia programme
131
–
5
; growing defiance in last days
559
; imprisoned
278
–
9
; Polish
168
,
177

‘Blondine’,
see
Hermann, Ilse

Bloser, Georg
454

Bobkova, Vera
276
,
277
,
323
,
324

Bolanov, Nadia
475

Bommezijn de Rochement, Jean
597
–
8
,
599
–
600
,
601
–
4

Bontemps, Minny
287

bookbinding workshop
176
,
225

books
33
–
5
; burning of Nazi texts
585
; Polish
250
,
292
; from SS library
355
–
6

Booth, William
295

Bösel, Grete
637
–
8

Bosse, Albert
9

Boudova, Bozena
171
,
232
,
335n

Bouhler, Philipp
104
,
112
,
121

Boy-Brandt, Hildegard
339
,
475

Boyko, Leonida
340

Boyko, Yekaterina
271
,
619

Brandt, Karl
594

Brandt, Rudolf
298n

Bräuning, Obersturmführer Edmund
271
,
292
,
343
,
373
,
453
; and children’s party
476
; and Himmler’s killing order
469
,
471
,
490
; relationship with Binz
356
,
376
,
444

Brauweiler workhouse
8
–
9
,
18

Brecht, Bertolt
7

Brest-Litovsk Bridge
73

Breuer, Herta
86
–
7

Brewda, Alina
483
,
484
,
486
–
7
,
498

Brin, Anna
264

British prisoners
429
–
31
; release of
598
–
9
,
607
–
10
,
633
–
4

Broad, Pery
238

Bruch, Ruth
67

Brückenthin estate
101
–
2
,
140
,
213

Brundson, Emma
335

Brunvold, Kirsten
542

Buber, Babette
73n

Buber, Martin
73n

Buber, Rafel
73n

Buber Agassi, Judith
73n
,
81

Buber-Neumann, Grete: appointed Blockova
88
–
9
,
95
; arrives at Ravensbrück
73
–
7
; and D-Day landings
390
; disillusion with Stalin
73
–
4
,
77
,
80
–
1
,
117
,
386
–
7
; and Else Krug
95
–
6
,
98
–
9
; and euthanasia programme
132
–
3
; and Germaine Tillion
386
–
7
,
549
–
50
; and hatred of Germans
475
; imprisoned
278
–
9
; and Johanna Langefeld
3
,
6
–
8
,
68
–
9
,
179
,
183
,
242
–
3
,
255
–
8
,
645
–
6
; and last days
514
,
559
; learns of Hitler plot
395
; and Milena Jesenska
116
–
17
,
132
–
3
,
231
,
296
–
7
,
385
–
6
,
391
; and Polish prisoners
208
–
9
,
406
; and prisoner doctors
299
; and prostitutes
94
–
5
; and recruitment of guards
309
; her release
587
; and sewing shop
201
; works at Siemens plant
241
–
2

Buch
148
–
9
,
154

Buchenwald: arrival of death train
401
–
2
; and Auschwitz death march
486
; and Bernburg gassings
155
; camp brothel
198
,
227
; and euthanasia programme
125
–
6
,
130
; liberation of
574
,
588
,
655
; opening of camp
15
,
17
; satellite camps
422
,
463
,
557
,
616
,
644

Buchmann, Erika
94
,
106
–
9
,
111
,
113
,
121
,
422
,
463
,
557
,
616
; and prisoner releases
596
–
7

Budy massacre
237
–
9

Bugi (Jewish girl)
149

Bulanov, Major Sergej
624
,
629

Bund Deutscher Mädel
48

Bunjac, Nadja
596

Buraczyńska, Wojciecha
178
,
179
,
250
,
253

Burckhardt, Carl-Jacob
330
–
1
,
355
,
383
,
565
,
574

Buteau, Madame
594

Cabaj, Maria
519
,
520
,
544
–
5

Caladium seguinum
(elephant ear)
109
–
10

camp mothers
236
,
381
,
474
–
6

camp newspaper
101

carbon monoxide gas
68
,
103

Carlmark, Live
542

Cassen, Erna
554
–
5

Castle Hartheim
454
–
5
,
470

Catholic Church, and war criminals
646

celebrities gang
83
–
6

Cernetic, Silvie
596

Chamier, Major Frank
354

Chatenay, Barbara
633
–
4

Chechko, Valentina
323
–
4
,
635

Chelmno camp
139
,
409

Chemnitz subcamp
583

Cheramy, Pat
430
,
431
,
438
,
634

Children: Christmas party
473
–
81
,
647
; growing numbers of
380
–
2
,
408
–
9
; Gypsy
473
–
4
,
480
–
1
; and sterilisation experiments
480
–
1
,
541

children’s choir
476
,
478
–
9