Resistance Behind Barbed Wire
“In Ravensbrück I saw women prove that solidarity, friendship, and compassion can survive even in the kingdom of death.” - Margarete Buber-Neumann (German political prisoner, survivor) The Women of Ravensbrück: When we talk about Nazi concentration camps, most people immediately think of Auschwitz, Dachau, or Buchenwald. But far fewer have heard of Ravensbrück — the largest concentration camp built for women. Between 1939 and 1945, over 130,000 women were imprisoned there. They weren’t just prisoners of war or political opponents — they were teachers, mothers, nurses, students, communists, Jews, Roma, lesbians, sex workers, resistance fighters. In other words: anyone the Nazis considered expendable. And yet, even inside a place designed to strip away humanity, the women of Ravensbrück found ways to resist. Resistance in the Shadows Some resistance looked like sabotage. Women forced to sew uniforms for German soldiers sometimes stitched the seams wrong on purpose. Others ...