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Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitlerā€™s Concentration Camp

RavensbrĆ¼ck : Life and Death  in Hitlerā€™s Concentration Camp      by Sarah Helm Reviewed by Geoffrey W. Sutton, Ph.D. RavensbrĆ¼ck  offers an organized collection of womenā€™s voices documenting the diverse ways individuals and tribal groups of European women responded to Nazi enslavement, violence, and murder. The collection of stories is organized chronologically. But themes emerge because policies and war events change.   Changes in policy sometimes mean changes in leaders. But changes in policy also reflect changes in the war, which in turn, result in changes in the size and character of the campā€™s victims. We have heard stories of the brutality of Nazi leaders in the death camps focused on the extermination of Jews. But at   RavensbrĆ¼ck  we learn that Nazis, governed by superiority myths and emboldened by conquest, systematically destroyed the lives of European women after extracting every ounce of strength as t...

Inheritance A Legacy of Hatred and the Journey to Change It Film Review

Inheritance A Legacy of Hatred and the Journey to Change It By James Moll, Director This 2006 documentary tells the story of two women with very different ā€œinheritancesā€ from Amon Goeth, the Nazi commandant of the Plaszow Concentration Camp in Poland. Goeth was known for his brutal murders of thousands of Jews. Monika Hertwig is the daughter of Amon Goeth and Ruth Kalder. She gradually learned bits and pieces about her fatherā€™s horrific treatment of the Jews. It would be a mistake to overlook the role of her mother who had an affair with Goeth and a troubled relationship with Monika. The Spielberg film, Schindlerā€™s List (1993), appears at a pivotal moment in Monikaā€™s efforts to come to grips with her family history and her own identity. Monika learns of a Jew, Helen Jonas-Rosenweig, who was a kitchen slave in her fatherā€™s manor house. Helen survived the holocaust with assistance from Oskar Schindler, whom she describes as a different kind of Nazi. Helen is in...