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Authors: Sarah Helm

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