Remains of Polish women killed in the all-female Ravensbruck concentration camp have been discovered at a nearby cemetery in northern Germany. A team from Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, ...

The trouble with a really bad idea is that no matter how awful it is to start with, it will probably be — well, improved upon is hardly right, but let’s say dialed up or intensified. So although the ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at HistoryToday.com. The question of how we should commemorate the concentration camps is a live one. On a ...

Her voice quivering at times and crackling with anger at others, a San Francisco woman deported to her native Germany for serving as a concentration camp guard during World War II said Wednesday that ...

A new book aims to preserve the stories of the prisoners at an all-female Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust, who resisted their captors as much as possible. Lynne Olson’s The Sisterhood of ...

Oneworld Publications, 352 pages, $85. In recent times, we have witnessed an increase in testimonies that provide a particularly female voice to the brutalities of World War II. And, more than all the ...

Born in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Father Mikolaj Sklodowski is seen in his apartment showing a photography with his mother in Gdansk, Poland on March 17, 2025. (Photo by MATEUSZ SLODKOWSKI / AFP ...

Roger Moorhouse is a historian of modern Germany and author of “The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941.” Ravensbrück By Sarah Helm Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 743 pp. $37.50 When the ...

“We arrived at the Ravensbrück concentration camp in October 1944, were led to a steam bath, and our hair was cut off. We got numbers and a yellow star — for Jewish. My number was 72316,” one ...