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Feb 15, 2008 · The Abu Ghraib pictures shocked the world when they were published in 2004. Here American soldiers stand behind a pyramid of naked Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.
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Feb 5, 2016 · She headed to penal colonies in rural Russia to photograph its female inmates: women who exist on the fringes of society and were rejected, forgotten, and invisible.
- Anastasiia Fedorova
- Who Was Sent to Ravensbrück?
- What Was Life Like at Ravensbrück?
- Medical Experimentation and The Women Who Ran The Concentration Camp
- 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...
- John Kuroski
1 day ago · In 1974 she became the photo director of L’Ora, the left-wing daily investigative paper in Palermo, until its closure in 1990. She later described her work: "I was with my bare hands, except for my camera, against them with all their weapons. I took photos of everything. Suddenly I had an archive of blood.
Apr 11, 2023 · These women were tasked with enforcing the strict rules and regulations of the concentration camps, but they also played a crucial role in the torture, abuse, and murder of countless prisoners. The psychology of these female guards is a complex and troubling subject.
