Ravensbruck concentration camp, 80km north of Berlin, which housed more than 130,000 women and children in its six years of existence.Sabine never spoke of Ravensbruck.
She was one of 2,000 Dutch women. Victims died of slave labour, starvation, poisoning, torture, exhaustion, medical experiments, madness and executions.
Loudspeakers blared out marching songs, dogs barked, guards screamed, and thousands of terrified women and children cried. Naked corpses were dumped in the washing area.
It was other people’s accounts of Sabine – in subsequent books – that gave Eva a glimpse into her mother: ‘The thing I found most surprising was her tremendous resilience.
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