De Saint-Michel à Ravensbrück par Suzanne Guiral - From Saint Michel to Ravensbrück by Suzanne Guiral prisoner number 44.694, published by IMPRIMERIE COOPERATIVE. France 1946 - first edition. dedicated and signed copy by the author.
French resistance fighter in whose house there was an arsenal of weapons, who managed to transfer weapons to the Saint-Michel resistance group fighters under the watchful eyes of the Gestapo, she is caught and taken to the Ravensbrück women's camp. And documents in detail her experiences in the camp. The diseases, the hunger, the forced labor, the daily struggle of the women in the camp to maintain human dignity, the terrible pain of losing her companions who could not stand the severe torture, "the dysentery that destroyed us", the stench in the camp from the smell of the mass grave nearby, and more. She describes the forces that allowed her to survive the inferno: "In order to transcend oneself with such force, one needs the help of a superhuman faith". Suzanne managed to endure for long months the terrible suffering in the camp and was finally liberated at the end of the war.
Extremely rare. Does not appear in the world cat library catalog.
[195], 3 pages. Minor stains on the cover. Good condition.
