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If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women (141 page)

Mączka, Zofia
224
,
228
,
231
,
233
–
4
,
639
–
40

Madagascar
65
,
139

Majdanek camp
162
,
239
,
286
,
341
–
2
,
353
,
368
–
9
,
493
,
542
,
653n
; evacuation
371
–
2
,
382
,
384
; overrun by Red Army
434
,
453
,
470
,
623

Majkowska-Kruszyńska, Józefa
501
,
506

Makuszyński, Kornel,
The Demon of the Seventh Form
247

Malachova, Lena
323

Malchow subcamp
441
,
582
; and Ravensbrück evacuation
614
–
21
,
630

Mallet, Lady
633

Mallet, Sir Victor
604

Malmö, arrival of prisoners at
633
–
4

Malygina, Lyusya
263
,
266
,
277
,
283
,
304
,
310
,
313
,
318
–
24
,
643

Manchester Guardian
301

Mandl, Maria
66
,
98
,
180
,
196
; and music
196
,
310
; transferred to Auschwitz
239
,
310

Marin sisters
442

Märker, Pastor
20
,
39

Markova, Rosa
264

Marschall,
Oberschwester
Elisabeth
339
,
503
,
515
,
571
,
579
,
586
,
599
; arrives at Ravensbrück
296
–
8
; and Block 10:
442
,
446
,
452
–
4
; and treatment of babies
417
–
19
; her trial
637

Marti, Roland
331
,
388
–
9

Marx, Karl
7
,
37
,
85

Masaryk, Tomáš
85

mass arrests
97

mass sterilisation
9
,
16
,
102
,
105
,
109
–
10

Masur, Norbert
591
–
2
,
606

Mauer, Luise
49
,
52
,
66
,
89
,
132
,
134
,
243
; and Auschwitz women’s section
182
–
91
; her release
191
; her rise to power
119
–
20
; and
Sondertransport
142
,
144
,
147
–
9

Maul, Dr Stefan
652

Maurel, Micheline
289
,
314
–
15
,
337
,
371
–
2
,
381
,
384
,
442
,
449
,
616
,
627
–
8
; reaches American lines
634
–
5
; and starvation
392
,
440
–
1
,
557

Mauthausen
32n
,
51
,
125
,
143
,
198
,
239
,
454
,
486
,
535
,
542
,
590
; and Ravensbrück evacuation
548
–
9
,
569
,
584
,
634

medical experiments
212
–
35
,
334
–
5
; body temperature experiments
226
–
8
; bone-breaking
228
–
9
; ending of
245
; ICRC informed
389
; protests and secret letters
245
–
57
,
332
–
3
; ‘special experiments’
232
–
5
; sterilisation experiments
298
,
389
,
413
,
480
–
1
,
541
; sulphonamide experiments
212
–
13

Mednikov Captain Alexander
622

Meier, Elfriede
620

Meier (deputy commandant)
144

Mein Kampf
35

Mengele, Dr Josef
409

Mennecke, Eva
122
,
124
–
7
,
129
–
30
,
140
–
1

Mennecke, Dr Friedrich
122
,
124
–
7
,
129
–
31
,
135
,
140
–
1
,
146

Menzer, Rosa
59
,
121
,
152

Mertinkat, Richard
336

Mertzisen, Suzanne
526

Meseberg, Marta
596

Mewes, Margarete
21
,
48
,
50
,
195
,
355
,
604

Meyer, Dr Hans
129
–
30
,
565
–
6
,
572

Michalik, Stanisława
160
,
170
,
204

midwives, prisoner
412
–
13
,
416

Mikulska, Eugenia
220
,
229
–
30
,
237
,
245
,
253
–
4
,
256

Minsk, Himmler visits
123
–
4

Minzburg, Regina
409

Mittelmann, Sarah
464

Młodkowska, Stanisława
205
,
219
,
334

Moldenhawer, Maria
49
,
177
,
196
,
377
,
381
,
422
,
514
,
581

Moll, Otto
468
,
471
–
3
,
490
,
495
,
503

Moltke, Helmuth von
354
,
396
,
516

Monte Cassino
391

Moringen women’s prison
12
,
14
–
15
,
17
–
18

mortuary, underground
154
,
296
,
403
–
4
,
439
,
557

Mory, Carmen
301
,
336
,
337
,
339
,
340
,
364
,
369
,
474
,
495
,
502
,
637
,
638
–
9
,
640
; and Block 10:
321n
,
443
–
6
,
448
–
54
,
642
; and ‘French jewellery affair’
444n

Moscovitch, Chaya
477
–
8

Moscovitch, Frieda
477

Moscovitch, Naomi
476
–
9
,
647

Moscow, battle of
131
,
137
,
141
,
277

Mother’s Crosses
21

Mourbel, Marthe
616

Mozynska, Isabella
579

Munkina, Anya
274

Müssgueller, Philomena
52
,
59
,
89
,
183
,
188
–
9

Musy, Jean-Marie
356

Nagy, Margit, Marianne and Rosza
461
,
464
,
583
–
4

Nakonechnaya, Nadia
266
,
282
,
619
–
20

Napoleon Bonaparte
6

Natzweiler camp
332
,
367

Nearne, Eileen
427
,
615

Nedvedova, Zdenka
297
–
300
,
304
,
544
,
549
–
50
,
559
,
571
,
624
; and arrival of Red Army
621
; and arrivals from Auschwitz
487
–
8
; and final evacuation
612
–
13
,
618
,
620
; and mobile gas chamber
555
,
576
,
621
; and sterilisation experiments
480
–
1
; and treatment of babies
413
–
14
,
417
–
20

Neubrandenburg subcamp
289
,
314
,
336
–
7
,
371
,
390
,
449
,
623
; evacuation
615
–
16
,
627
; starvation at
392
,
440
–
1
,
557

Neudeck, Ruth,
493
–
4
,
499
,
501
,
504
,
507
–
8
,
512
,
547
,
556
,
560
,
640
; and clearance of Youth Camp,
577
,
579
–
80

Neue Bremm camp
393

Neuengamme camp
125
,
562
–
4

Neumann, Heinz
73
–
4

Neurolau camp
289
,
615
,
631

Neustadt-Glewe subcamp
557

Neustrelitz camp
291
–
2
,
625
–
6

New York Times
123

Niederhagen
125

Nikiforova, Antonina
276
,
280
,
283
,
301
,
323
,
324
,
408
,
413
,
519
,
585
,
613
,
618
; and arrival of Red Army
622
,
624
; and return to Soviet Union
273
–
4
,
635
,
645
,
656

Nitsche, Dr Paul
125
–
6
,
141

‘NN’ category
332
,
367
,
385
,
548
,
567
,
569
–
70
,
572
,
587

Nordling, Raoul
402
,
435
–
6

Norwegian prisoners
300
–
2
,
325
–
7
,
542
–
3
;
see also
Scandinavian prisoners, release of

nuns
406
,
408
,
411
,
430
,
579
–
80

Nuremberg rallies
8

Nuremberg war crimes trials
393
,
513
,
636
–
40
,
640
; medical trials
130
,
154
,
213
,
230
,
639

Oberheuser, Dr Herta
111
–
12
,
131
,
244
–
5
,
252
,
290
; and killing of prisoners
171
–
2
,
230
; and medical experiments
214
,
216
,
218
–
24
,
226
,
229
–
30
; her trial and sentence
644
–
5