If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women (140 page)

Lanckorońska, Karolina
138
,
142
,
357
–
9
,
366
,
370
,
383
,
390
,
475
; her account of Ravensbrück
574
–
5
; and death of Emilie Tillion
550
–
2
; and last days
516
,
518
,
521
,
545
,
559
; and mobile gas chamber
554
,
575
–
6
; her value as hostage
355
–
6
; and Warsaw women
406
,
408
,
411

‘Lange, Frau’,
see
Lanckorońska, Karolina

Lange, Sturmbannführer Herbert
555

Langefeld, Johanna: and appointment of Olga Benario
56
–
7
; arrives at Ravensbrück
3
–
6
,
19
,
28
–
30
; and Auschwitz women’s section
182
–
3
,
185
–
91
; and communist coup
79
–
80
; disputes with Koegel
53
,
68
–
9
,
179
; early life
6
–
8
; and euthanasia programme
132
,
134
; and hair salon
180
–
1
; hatred of SS
242
–
3
; Himmler and
19
,
179
,
182
,
190
–
1
,
258
; and Himmler’s visit
66
,
68
–
9
; and Kraków trial
645
–
6
; leaves Ravensbrück
257
–
8
,
278
,
283
; leaves Ravensbrück for Auschwitz
196
; her living quarters
30
; and military inspections
39
; opposition to Nazi methods
8
–
9
,
179
; pessimism and depression
255
–
6
; and Polish prisoners
168
,
177
–
8
,
196
,
243
,
256
–
8
; post-war life
645
–
6
; and prisoner arrivals
23
,
25
; and prisoner protests
253
–
6
; promotion to Lichtenburg
18
; and punishments
26
,
66
,
68
–
9
; religious conviction
8
; returns from Auschwitz
237
–
40
,
242
–
3
; and rise of Teege and Mauer
119
–
20
; and
Sondertransport
142
–
4
; and Soviet prisoners
273
; and treatment of prisoners
31
,
53

Langefeld, Wilhelm
7

Langholm, Nelly
302
,
431
–
2
,
449
,
464
–
5
,
571
–
2
,
641
,
656
–
7

Lascroux, Rosanne
382

Lashki, Maro
312

Lecoq, Jacques
448

Lecoq, Violette
442
,
445
–
6
,
449
,
450
–
3
,
465
,
558
,
560
,
567
,
572
,
581
,
642
; her drawings at Hamburg trial
638

Lefebvre, Marie-Thérèse
379
–
80
,
391

Le Porz, Louise (‘Loulou’)
393
–
4
,
396
–
7
,
464
,
493
,
495
,
530
,
638
,
651
; and Block 10:
442
–
53
,
455
,
516
,
642
,
648
; and change in Lucas
514
–
15
; and death of Emilie Tillion
551
; her description of Winkelmann
546
; and
la chasse
555
–
6
,
558
–
9
; and Lucas’s trial
645
; her release
567
–
8
,
572
–
3

Le Tac, Yvonne
341

Lebensborn
homes
101
,
415

Lefort, Alex
496

Lefort, Cicely
348
–
9
,
433
,
489
,
496
,
498
,
507
,
607

Leger, Henriette
449
–
80
,
455

Leger, Marie
480
,
455

Leichter, Franz
152
,
156
,
652

Leichter, Käthe
60
,
81
–
7
,
119
,
128
,
134
,
138
,
652
; and
Sondertransport
142
–
3
,
145
,
152
,
156

Leichter, Kathy
85
–
7

Leichter, Otto
82
,
152
,
156

Leifer, Gustav
286

Lelong, Madame
396
–
7

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
275

Leningrad, battle of
111
–
12
,
131
,
141
,
271
,
625

Lepadies, Mina
604
–
5

Lepage, Herr
382

lesbianism (and
les Jules
)
31
,
89
,
92
–
4
,
138
,
174
–
5
,
309
,
350
,
355
–
6
,
360
,
363
,
561

Le Scornet, Christiane
522
–
3
,
524
–
5

Lesèvre, Lise
616

letters, prisoners’
34
–
5
,
60
,
96

Levi, Primo
654

L’Humanité
393

Liaison Committee of Women’s International Organisations
433
–
4

Liard, Jean-Marie
455

Lichtenburg camp
4
,
17
–
19
; prisoners sent to Ravensbrück
21
–
6

Lidice
211
,
234
–
5

Liebenau internment centre
534
–
5
,
536

Limakhina, Tamara
280

Lindell, Mary (Comtesse de Milleville)
428
–
9
,
525
,
529
,
558
; and release of British prisoners
598
–
9
,
607
–
1
; and Treite
558
,
607
–
10
,
640