If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women (121 page)

Countess Karolina Lanckorońska in 1938 at Rozdół Palace, her family’s main country estate in Poland

The crematorium, showing two of the three furnaces. The picture was taken by the Czech prisoner Hanka Housková within hours of the liberation of the camp

Bodies photographed by Hanka Housková soon after the SS fled on 29 April 1945. Piles of corpses lay all over the camp. Later, local people were sent to the camp to help bury them

Ukrainian and Russian mothers and babies in the ‘maternity block’ photographed by Hanka Housková immediately after liberation. Words on the back of the picture say that one of the women was among those raped by the Red Army soldiers who liberated the camp

Women rescued by Bernadotte’s White Buses on the boat to Malmö, Sweden

Folke Bernadotte (centre) discussing the rescue with an SS doctor and a Norwegian pastor in Hamburg, March 1945

An unidentified French woman, rescued from Ravensbrück by the Swedish Red Cross, photographed in a Danish hospital in May 1945 by Tage Christensen

French women brought out of the camp by the International Committee of the Red Cross are welcomed with soup and blankets in a gymnastics hall in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, 6 April 1945

Ruth Closius (formerly Neudeck), chief guard at the Uckermark Youth Camp. This photograph was taken at the British internment camp at Paderborn in 1947, before her trial in Hamburg

Johann Schwarzhuber, Ludwig Ramdohr, Gustav Binder and Heinrich Peters (SS officer at the men’s camp) in the dock at the Hamburg trial, which began in December 1946

Fritz Suhren, camp commandant 1942–5. Suhren probably wore these civilian clothes when he drove to American lines with Odette Sansom to give himself up

Dr Herta Oberheuser being sentenced at the Nuremberg doctors’ trial, 20 August 1947

Dorothea Binz, Margarete Mewes, Grete Bösel, Vera Salvequart (in row behind) and Eugenia von Skene in the dock at the Hamburg trial