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Authors: Sarah Helm
Treite, Carl
295
Treite, Lily
295
Treite, Louisa (née Foot)
295
Treite, Percival, senior
295
Treite, Dr Percival: arrives at Ravensbrück
294
–
8
,
300
–
4
; attitude to patients
514
; and Block 10:
444
,
448
–
50
,
452
–
4
; examines Geneviève de Gaulle
438
; and hiding of Germaine Tillion
550
; and increase in killings
335
–
41
,
369
; and Mary Lindell
558
,
607
–
10
,
640
; and mass killings
495
–
7
,
502
–
4
,
515
,
546
; and mass shootings
473
,
495
; operates on Cicely Lefort
489
; operates on Milena Jesenska
385
; and release of British prisoners
607
–
10
; and remaining prisoner doctors
613
,
618
; saves woman from Ramdohr
308
; and sterilisation experiments
480
–
1
; and ‘straw women’
465
; and treatment of babies
413
–
18
; trial and suicide
609
–
10
,
637
,
639
,
640
Trevor-Roper, Hugh
65
Trksak, Irma
287
–
8
,
497
,
547
Trommer, Dr Richard
365n
,
369
,
453
,
490
,
504
,
515
,
527
,
542
,
550
,
579
Tschajalo, Tamara
265
–
7
,
276
–
8
; and Barth subcamp
310
,
317
–
18
,
319
,
321
Tschernitschenko, Halina
502
Tskaya, Belolipe
323
tuberculosis: and double deaths
466
; epidemic
336
–
7
; and prisoner releases
120
–
1
,
128
,
132
–
3
; and
Sondertransport
144
–
5
,
150
;
see also
Block
10
typhoid
274
,
337
typhus: and double deaths
466
; epidemic
462
–
3
,
465
; among Soviet prisoners
265
–
6
,
269
,
274
–
7
Uckermark Youth Camp: clearance of
577
–
81
; established as gassing centre
470
,
473
; increasing resistance at
547
–
8
; mass killings at
488
–
513
,
547
–
51
,
560
; ‘Mittwerda lists’
499
,
507
–
8
,
547
–
8
,
552
,
654
; and mobile gas
chambers
554
–
5
,
577
; numbers killed
510
,
513
,
654
; and poisoning
503
–
7
,
578
,
580
;
Revier
502
–
6
,
510
,
577
–
9
; Siemens and
285
,
423
; starvation order
503
Ullrich, Lisa
22
–
3
unemployment, rising
97
UNRRA
535
US State Department
565
Useldinger, Yvonne
511
,
557
V2 rockets
423
,
425
,
582
,
657
Vago, Aniko
483
,
484
–
5
,
487
–
8
Vago, Lydia
482
–
5
,
487
–
8
,
489
,
494
Vaillant-Couturier, Marie-Claude
513
,
516
,
566
,
586
,
597
,
613
,
618
,
620
–
1
,
630
; her account of Auschwitz
393
–
4
; and arrival of Red Army
621
–
2
; photographs of Dachau and Sachsenhausen
393
Valeske, Mina
145
,
147
Vanchenko, Vera
316
–
17
van den Boom, Claire
381
,
474
Van den Broek d’Obrenan, Madame
447
van de Perre, Selma
288
,
652
,
653
;
see also
van der Kuit, Margareta
Van der Aa, Jacqueline and Bramine
288
van der Kuit, Margareta
288
,
423
,
556
,
607
;
see also
van de Perre, Selma
Vargas, President Getulio
13
–
14
Vasilyeva, Nadia
625
Vavak, Anni
286
–
7
,
423
,
511
,
652
Veretenikova, Raisa
266
Verfügbare
168
,
173
,
176
,
373
Vermehren, Erich
354n
Vermehren, Isa
354
,
361n
,
395
–
6
Versailles Treaty
105
vigilante gangs
362
Virloguex, Claude
559
Vladimimova, Yevgenia
275
Vlasenko, Maria
261
–
6
,
268
,
271
,
273
,
621
,
622
Vlasov, General Andrei
411
Vogl, Major
141
Volkenrath, Elisabeth
48
,
182
Völkischer Beobachter
40
,
60
,
101
Volksdeutsche
160
Volkssturm militia
615
,
619
,
622
Vollrath, Elfriede
182
Voloshina, Ludmilla
271
von Helldorf, Count Wolf-Heinrich
395
–
6
von Metzler, Dr
415
von Witzleben, Wolf-Dietrich
641
,
651
Vught camp
405
,
422
VVN,
see
survivors’ associations
Wachstein, Marianne
28
–
9
,
33
,
43
–
5
,
54
,
56
,
70
–
2
,
100
,
143
,
154
Waitz, Katharina
19
,
28
,
98
–
9
Wamser, Anni
138
Wandervogel
7
Wannsee conference
139
–
40
,
146
,
181
,
331
War Crimes Commission
333
Warsaw Uprising
397
,
404
,
497
,
605
Wasilczenko, Hanna
413
–
14
,
418
Wasilczenko, Witold Grzegorz
414
,
418
Wasilewska, Halina
406
,
409
,
462
,
463
,
545
Wassner, Karl
454
Weber, Max
82
Wehlan, Eva,
see
Mennecke, Eva
Weimar Republic
7
,
12
Weinert baby
578
–
9
Weiss, Edith
54
Wellsberg, Pola and Chaya
409
Wendland, Herr
193
,
195
Werner, Ruth
57
Weyand (Sonntag), Dr Gerda
106
,
110
–
12
,
130
,
133
;
647
–
8
Widmann, Babette
80
,
135
Wiedmaier, Maria
52
,
56
,
58
–
60
,
79
–
81
,
109
,
114
,
135
,
137
–
8
,
143
,
150
–
1
,
299
; becomes head of VVN
644
; and sewing shop
200
–
1
,
203
Wiernick, Ilse
194
–
5
Wilborts, Marie-Jo
416
–
20
Wilgat, Maria
249
,
251
,
647
Wilhelm, Dr
71
Winkelmann, Dr Adolf
546
–
50
,
555
–
6
,
558
,
560
,
567
,
581
,
604
,
657
–
8
Wodzynska, Stefania and Wanda
605
Wojtasik, Wanda
161
–
7
,
169
,
173
–
6
,
204
,
206
,
208
,
378n
,
390
–
1
,
557
,
626
,
658
; and arrival of Warsaw women
405
,
407
; and confrontation with Suhren
594
–
5
; goes into hiding
517
–
18
,
520
; and medical experiments
214
–
18
,
251
–
2
; and protests
245
–
7
,
253
Wolk, Julie
315
,
317
,
320
World Jewish Congress
331
,
565
,
591
Wreschner, Charlotte and Margarete
536
–
7
Young, Mary
430
,
489
,
496
,
498
,
548
,
607
,
634
Zając, Krystyna
618
,
626
Zajączkowska, Basia
462
–
4
,
514
,
556
,
606
–
7
Zaremba, Krystyna
202
,
204
Zavrl, Vida
556
–
7
Zeh, Maria
23
Zetler, Frieda
606
Zhukov, Marshal
576
Zielonka, Maria
216
,
251
Zill, Egon
44
Zimberlin, Marie-Louise (‘Zim’)
447
–
8
,
559
,
567
–
8
,
572
–
4
Zimberlin, Sophie
573
–
4
Zimmer, Emma
26
,
29
,
38
,
41
–
6
,
70
,
78
,
112
,
181
; and Hedwig Apfel
42
–
3
; and Jewish lock-down
61
–
2
; and Kapos
52
–
3
; and Marianne Wachstein
44
–
5
; and murder of Gypsy
41
–
2
; and
Sondertransport
142
–
4
,
147
Zimmermann, Leonore
375
Zuur, Sabine
549
Zwodau subcamp
379
,
391
My intention in this book was to tell the story of Ravensbrück primarily through the voices of the women themselves, but time was already running out. My initial task was to search for the last survivors. For this, I needed guides, and my first thanks go to them.
Survivors in Russia and the East were bound to be the hardest to find, not least because so few names were known.
I first met Dr Bärbel Schindler-Saefkow in her sunny allotment in East Berlin, a stone’s throw from the Karlshorst mansion where Nazi forces surrendered to the Red Army on 9 May 1945. The daughter of a communist survivor, Bärbel had grown up in East Germany living and breathing the story of Ravensbrück, and the East European survivors had become her ‘family’. Their stories first came alive for me sitting at a table in Bärbel’s allotment and from there I set off on trails which led to Moscow, St Petersburg, Kiev and Donetsk. Bärbel helped in countless ways to the very last days of my research.