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Jul 27, 2023 · All of this is captured on CCTV. The woman in the footage is Zayna Iman, 38, who alleges she was drugged and sexually assaulted while being held in custody by Greater Manchester Police (GMP).
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She was captured by German soldiers trying to organise a rescue of some 150 women and children seeking refuge from the Axis. She attempted to protect her charges by firing at the attacking Nazi SS forces.
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- The Final Days and The Liberation of Ravensbrück
World War II saw 130,000 female prisoners pass through the gates of Ravensbrück — most of whom never walked back out. What's surprising is that a relatively small number of those women were Jewish. Surviving records suggest that during the camp's operating years (May of 1939 through April of 1945), only 26,000 of the inmates were Jewish. So who wer...
When Ravensbrück was built on the orders of Heinrich Himmler in 1938, it was almost picturesque. Conditions were good, and some prisoners, coming from the poverty of the ghettos, even expressed wonder at the manicured lawns, peacock-filled birdhouses, and flowerbeds lining the great square. But behind the pretty façade was a dark secret — one Himml...
One of the most confusing things about Ravensbrück is why it existed at all. Other camps housed both female and male prisoners. So why bother to create an all-women camp? Some have suggested that Ravensbrück was created in part as a training ground for female prison guards, known as Aufseherinnen. Women could not belong to the SS, but they could ho...
For much of the war, the Ravensbrück facility did not have a gas chamber. It had outsourced its mass executions to other camps, like the nearby Auschwitz. That changed in 1944 when Auschwitz announced it had reached maximum capacity and closed its gates to new arrivals. So Ravensbrück constructed its own gas chamber, a hastily built facility that w...
An exhibition at the Rencontres d’Arles festival features work by three female photographers who each capture revealing and rarely seen images of women. The US photographer Susan Meiselas first...
Jul 5, 2021 · The first was in police custody, when a female inspector forced her to strip, grabbed her breasts and watched her urinate. The second was in a public hospital, in front of a male doctor, with...
Dec 4, 2020 · Images of the estimated 1,000 Philippine "comfort women" who were enslaved and sexually victimized by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II fill a wall at the offices of Lila Pilipina ...
2 days ago · Girl with dairy allergy dies after drinking hot chocolate in Costa with milk Read More Stories ‘One of the women is Natalie Patricia Shotter, 37, who died in Southall Park on July 17, 2021.
