Hell in North Germany

Hell in North Germany

A review of The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück by Lynne Olson, 384 pages, Random House (June 2025) Tell it to the world. ~a Frenchwoman on her way to the gas chamber. The Ravensbrück concentration camp was constructed in late 1938 about fifty miles north of Berlin near a former health resort. Although a small camp for male prisoners was built next to the main complex in 1941, Ravensbrück became infamous as the largest camp exclusively for female pris…