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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 588

Ravensbrück

Guy Poirot, born on March 11, 1945 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, poses with a portrait of his mother from the book 'De la resistance' in Nancy, north-eastern France, on December 10, 2024. (Jean-Christophe Verhaegen / AFP)
April 15, 2025, 12:16 pm
The miracle babies who survived Ravensbrück concentration camp
Infants secretly born in German concentration camp were kept alive by community of women prisoners who risked everything to protect them
By AFP and ToI Staff
Author Martha Hall Kelly and her book 'The Golden Doves.' (Courtesy)
July 26, 2023, 2:32 am
With ‘The Golden Doves,’ bestselling author honors a Holocaust survivor and friend
While promoting her debut novel, Martha Hall Kelly met 93-year-old Auschwitz survivor Irene Zisblatt and promised to keep her story, and the trials of others like her, alive
By Lisa Klug
Former Princess Diane Von Furstenberg, left, sits with her mother, Liliane Halfin, during a party to celebrate the publishing of Miss Von Furstenberg's book on beauty by Simon and Schuster publishers in New York, February 28, 1977 (AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine)
April 22, 2023, 9:33 am
Fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg: Holocaust survivor mother is my main inspiration
Ahead of new exhibit, designer says Greek-Jewish mother was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Ravensbruck; upon liberation she weighed just 25 kgs: ‘She was a skeleton amongst ashes’
By Matthieu Demeestere
Women pronounced fit for labor from the Tet Ghetto in Hungary standing on the platform after a selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. (Anonymous, possibly SS photographers E. Hoffmann & B. Walter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
November 17, 2022, 11:30 am
Study suggests Nazis attempted to sterilize Jewish women in camps with food additive
New research finds it likely wasn’t just trauma and starvation that caused 98% of women to stop menstruating upon arrival at Auschwitz, and many to later struggle with infertility
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Olga Czik Kay (Courtesy of Yad Vashem)
April 26, 2022, 10:38 pm
Survivor Olga Kay passes Holocaust education torch to youth to keep fighting denial
Ahead of participation in state Yom Hashoah ceremony, 96-year-old who beat Auschwitz and two other camps says, ‘We must tell our story and keep memory alive’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A view of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv on March 2, 2022. (Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)
March 3, 2022, 10:12 am
Holocaust survivors condemn Putin’s ‘denazification’ claim in Ukraine
Signatories to statement say Russian leader’s unacceptable justification of invasion as action against Nazis and alleged genocide only serves to ‘tarnish’ the words
By AFP and ToI Staff
Gene Simmons of Kiss performs at Staples Center in Los Angeles, March 4, 2020. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for ABA via JTA)
May 5, 2020, 1:38 am
Kiss frontman Simmons learns about Holocaust survivor mother’s ordeal
German newspaper presents Israel-born rock star with 100 pages of documents about his late mother’s experiences to mark 75th anniversary of her liberation
By Marcy Oster
Nazi camps survivor Marija Frlan, who will turn 100 on the Holocaust Remembrance Day, talks to The Associated Press, during an interview at her home in Rakek, Slovenia, January 24, 2020. (Darko Bandic/AP)
January 26, 2020, 8:44 pm
Survivor in Slovenia turns 100 on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Marija Frlan was sent to notorious Ravensbrueck camp in northern Germany for helping resistance movement in Slovenia in a bombing
By Ali Zerdin
In this file photo taken on April 26, 2017 Yvette Lundy poses for a picture at a retirement home in Epernay, northeastern France ( FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI / AFP)
November 4, 2019, 10:47 am
French Resistance hero Yvette Lundy, who saved Jews in WWII, dies at 103
Lundy provided fake papers to Jews fleeing Nazis, survived the concentration camps and went on to teach reconciliation, giving talks to French as well as German students
By AFP
Author Martha Hall Kelly in the garden which inspired her book, 'Lilac Girls.' (YouTube screenshot)
May 16, 2017, 11:56 am
How a book on WWII Rabbits of Ravensbruck leapt into bestseller lists
Author Martha Hall Kelly first heard of the female Nazi experimentation victims by accident while visiting a lilac garden — but then she kept digging
By Lisa Klug
Notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele as a young doctor and the 'ramp' at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May of 1944, where Mengele sometimes selected inmates for life, death or 'experimentation' (Public domain)
October 27, 2016, 12:02 pm
The long, twisted shadow cast by Nazi medical experiments
Seven decades after Nazi camp inmates were tortured in the name of medical research, it is increasingly clear the experimentation was conducted by scientists well beyond known ‘Nazi hacks and SS quacks’
By Matt Lebovic
Genevieve de Gaulle (niece of Charles de Gaulle) and Odette Fabius (center), friends since their incarceration in Ravensbruck concentration camp, after Fabius was awarded Officier de La Legion d’Honneur 1971. (Courtesy)
September 2, 2016, 5:38 pm
The women in WWII Paris who ‘did what they had to’ for survival
Author Anne Sebba reveals a female-driven wartime France through series of sweeping vignettes in her new book ‘Les Parisiennes’
By Jenni Frazer
Pope Francis meets with camp survivors in the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, July 29, 2016. (L'Osservatore Romano /Pool Photo via AP)
July 29, 2016, 7:54 pm
Auschwitz survivors tell pope tales from the abyss
In meeting with pontiff, 11 former prisoners of Nazi death camp and 25 Christian Polish rescuers of Jews recount their harrowing stories
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, 1939. (Bundesarchiv)
April 5, 2016, 4:06 pm
UK author exposes the oft-forgotten horrors of a Nazi death camp for women
In ‘If This Is a Woman,’ Sarah Helm goes inside Germany’s Ravensbrück, where up to 90,000 women perished during the Holocaust
By JP O’ Malley
During the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April of 1945, guards with the SS were paraded for work in clearing the dead. (Wikimedia Commons)
January 14, 2016, 12:34 pm
Uncovering Holocaust perpetrators where few have looked
Muslim Nazis, female death camp guards, and Dutch ‘bounty hunters’ are coming out of the archival closet, even as fewer Shoah eyewitnesses remain alive to testify
By Matt Lebovic
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