If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women (144 page)

Sondertransport
142

52
; euphemism for killings
206
; location of gassing
154
; and need for secrecy
146

8
,
153
; total numbers
150
Sonnenstein gassing centre
122
Sonntag, Gerda,
see
Weyand, Dr Gerda
Sonntag, Hedwig
105
Sonntag, Lotte
501
,
506
Sonntag, Dr Walter
76
,
99
,
101

2
,
104

14
; and euthanasia programme
120

1
,
126

8
,
133
; killing of prisoners
112

14
,
171
,
230
; loathing for Jews
101
,
108
; sadism
107

8
; and sterilisation
109

10
; transferred to front
111

12
,
131
,
140

1
South African War
11
Soviet prisoners
261

73
; final evacuation
618

20
; learning German
277
; protest at black transports
339
; and return to Soviet Union
635
,
642

3
; and sabotage
315

17
,
320
; and Simferopol trial
283
,
323
; transferred to satellite camps
310

20
Soviet Union: German invasion
102
,
117
,
120
,
123
,
162
,
261

2
; mass shootings
123

4
,
139
; population growth
351
; post-war censorship
262

3
,
273

4
,
635
,
642

3
Spanish civil war
14
Sparmann, Edith
27
,
90
,
180

1
,
198
,
376
Spartacus movement
7
Speer, Albert
289
,
317
,
636
Speranskaya, Ekaterina
474
,
617
,
620
Spoerry, Anne
445

6
,
448

9
,
450
,
453
,
642
Sprengel, Rita
240
,
336
,
341
SS ‘Death’s Head’ units
11
,
104
,
160
SS drivers
143
,
454
SS
Einsatzgruppen
123
SS
Kameradschaftsabend
(comradeship evening)
376

7
Staessart, Amanda
350
,
360
,
362
,
364
,
365
Stakhanov, Colonel Mikhail
622
Stalin, Josef: his death
643
; and end of war
437
; Grete Buber-Neumann’s disillusion with
73

4
,
77
,
80

1
,
117
,
386

7
; and Nazi–Soviet pact
58
,
73
,
101
,
117
; and purges
116
; and Soviet prisoners
262

3
,
268
,
270
,
322

3
,
626
Stalingrad, battle of
131
,
197
,
267
,
271
,
280

1
,
310
,
314
,
322
,
625
Stasi
80
,
320

2
,
644
Stauffenberg, Claus von
395

6
Stefaniak, Zofia
162
,
253
Stegemann, Wolfgang
194
,
628
,
629

30
Stekolnikova, Anna
261
,
281

2
,
560
Stern, Sara Henni
153
Stewart, Stephen
201
,
415
,
638
,
639
Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG
239
Strachwich, Irma von
78

9
Strafblock
prisoners
29
,
98

9
; and
Sondertransport
142
,
144

5
Strassner, Frau
475
‘straw women’
465

6
Strzelecka, Helena
171
Stubovas, appointment of
51
Stumpfegger, Dr Ludwig
228

9
,
233

4
,
251
Sturm, Hanna
28
,
33

4
,
36

7
,
41

6
,
50
,
58
,
78
,
80
,
96
,
135
,
148
,
298
; and gas chambers
471
,
555
,
576
; and Sonntag
110

11
,
113
Stutthof camp
409
,
468
,
513
Sudentenland, annexation of
19
,
117
Suhren, Fritz: his arrest, trial and execution
552
,
631
,
635

6
,
640
; and arrival of French prisoners
362
,
377
; and arrival of senior SS men
466
; and arrival of Soviet prisoners
271

2
; arrives at Ravensbrück
239
; and British prisoners
429

30
,
598

9
,
607

8
; confrontation with Poles
594

5
; and evacuation to Malchow
614
,
616
,
620

1
,
630

1
; and execution of SOE women
526

7
; and executions of Poles
245

6
; and final massacre
612

13
; and gas chambers
553

5
; and Geneviève de Gaulle
438
; his house
629

30
; and
Idiotenstübchen
killings
369

40
; and Karolina Lanckorońska
356
; and Langefeld’s departure
256

8
; and last days
516

21
,
549
,
551
,
582
,
586

7
,
604
,
612
; and mass killings
491

2
,
499
,
503

4
; named in broadcast
343
,
521
; and pregnant women
412
; and prisoner releases
566

7
,
573
,
593

4
,
598

9
; resentment of Gebhardt
520

1
; and slave labour market
286
,
293
; and Soviet prisoners’ protest
340
; and SS
Kameradschaftsabend
376

7
; and Sunday routines
283
; and surge in arrivals
404

5
,
408

9
; his testimony
552
sulphonamides
212

13
Sultan, Johanna
614
Sunday routines
34

5
,
60
,
273
,
283

4
survivors’ associations
90
,
96
,
154

6
,
644
Suskova, Synka
302
Svensson, Åke
605

6
Swiderski, Eugeniusz (‘Niuś’)
292
,
373
,
388
SWIT (Dawn Radio)
291
,
342

3
,
387
,
390
,
434
syphilis
27
,
104
,
109
,
120
,
127

8
,
150
,
265
,
304
,
337
Szabo, Violette
401

2
,
421
,
426

7
,
431

2
,
435
,
522

8
Szura (Soviet electrician)
518
,
519
Szweda, Romana
497
,
502
Szych, Teodozja
290
Szydłowska, Joanna
520
Szyjkowska, Irena
503

4
Tambour, Madeleine and Germaine
497
,
548
Tanewa, Georgia
240
,
285
,
619

20
Tanke, Klara
172
,
351
tattooed skin
113
Tauforova, Mlada
555
Tedesco, Madame
559
Teege, Bertha
89
,
92
,
94
,
112
,
115
,
118
,
138
,
243
; and Auschwitz women’s section
182

91
; and euthanasia programme
132
,
134

5
; her release
191
; her rise to power
119

20
; and
Sondertransport
142

4
,
151
Templin hospital
27
ten Boom, Corrie and Betsie
423

4
,
439
,
463
ten Brink, Julius
153
ten Brink, Mathilde
55

6
,
153
tetanus
219

20
,
224
,
333
,
640
Texled textile firm
195
,
199
Thälmann, Ernst
283
,
623
Thälmann, Irma
623
Thälmann, Rosa
283
,
616
,
623

4
Thelen, Lydia
363
Theresienstadt camp
156
,
383
,
491
,
537
,
589

90
Thule Society
11
Thüringer, Frau
497
,
505
Thury, Elisabeth
361
,
444n
,
453
,
514
,
516
,
585
,
598
Tickell, Jerrard
637
Tillier, Geneviève
447
Tillion, Emilie
348
,
350
,
367
,
377
,
549

52
Tillion, Germaine
300
,
337

8
,
339
,
348
,
350
,
366

70
,
374
,
447n
; compiles information on camp
385

7
,
548

9
,
587
,
634
; evacuation and her mother’s death
548

52
; and gas chambers
553
; and
la chasse
555
; her memoirs and war crimes trials
639
,
641
; her photographic record
517
; her spoof operetta
514
Tkaczyk, Stasia
412
,
605
Tkaczyk, Waldmar
605
Tol, Stijntje
499
,
507
Torgau subcamp
424

8
,
431

2
,
440

1
,
522
,
530
,
551
,
582
,
657
Tourtay, Denise
289
,
314
Tragende
statue
58
,
114
,
644
,
650
Treblinka
155
,
181
,
190
,
293
,
375

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