The Holocaust's youngest survivors: born in a labor camp, on a death train, and in a concentration camp

Moran, and Mark Olsky are survivors born to survivors. During the Holocaust, their mothers were young Jewish women sent to ...

Austria's second-largest women's concentration camp to be demolished, become a Lidl supermarket

According to the Mauthausen Guides, around 400 women were interned in the camp during World War II, 194 of whom were Russian protective-custody prisoners.
The Forward

In WWII’s only all-female concentration camp, community was the key to survival

World War II isn’t a new subject for historian Lynne Olson. But her latest book, The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück, covers the unique story of the war’s only all-female concentration camp. Clockwise from ...
Yahoo

Auschwitz: Women used different survival and sabotage strategies than men at Nazi death camp

Nearly all the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in occupied Poland, were murdered – either sent to the gas chambers or worked to death. Life expectancy in many of these camps ...
The Cornell Daily Sun

Survivor of Chinese Concentration Camp Urges for Solidarity with Uighur Women on International Women’s Day

In a March 7 webinar, coinciding with International Women’s Day, Uighur Muslim and Xinjiang concentration camp survivor Tursunay Ziyawudun spoke on the human rights violations against women she ...
ABC 7 Chicago

Woman born in concentration camp shares her story as world marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

In the last months of World War II, Lola Kantorowicz tried her best to hide her pregnancy. She succeeded, up until nearly the end, because most of the prisoners at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ...
People

3 Jewish Women Hid Their Pregnancies from the Nazis. 80 Years Later, Their Children Recall Their Mothers' Journeys and Finding Each Other

Eva Clarke, Hana Berger-Moran and Mark Olsky, who as babies survived the Holocaust along with their mothers, finally met in 2010 The Jewish mothers of Eva Clarke, Hana Berger-Moran and Mark Olsky ...