First edition of this "exacting account" (Herbermann) of the author's year-and-a-half imprisonment in the notorious women's concentration camp.
Very good plus.
Price: $850.00
"Amongst us all, however, the living and the dead, there existed a fraternity stronger that anything on earth." — Dufournier (trans. F.W. McPherson)
By the time of its liberation, Ravensbrück held more than 50,000 prisoners from dozens of countries, almost all of them women. In a camp predominately dedicated to political prisoners, Dufournier recounts how she was sent there in 1943 after being arrested for helping to locate and care for downed U.S. and British airmen. She managed to survive both the war and the camp's horrors (which included gruesome medical experiments), quickly completing the manuscript by September 1945 during her recuperation; it became one of the earliest first-hand accounts of the camps. An English edition appeared in the U.K. in 1948 under the title RAVENSBRÜCK: The Women's Camp of Death, but OCLC locates only about a dozen scattered U.S. holdings of this first edition.
Read more: Herbermann, The Blessed Abyss, 256.
First printing. [Paris]: Hachette, (1945). 7.25'' x 4.75''. Original typographic wrappers printed in red and black. Text in French. 220, [4] pages. Slight lean, spine a bit creased. Some thumbing, rubbing, a few paint spots of soil. Else clean and sound. A jacketless copy of the first English edition (RAVENSBRÜCK: The Women's Camp of Death, translated by F.W. McPherson) is provided.
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