The women's camp in Moringen

Description:

"The Nazi regime opened its first concentration camps within weeks of coming to power, but with the exception of Dachau the history of these early, improvised camps and their inmates is not yet widely known. Gabriele Herz's memoir, published for the first time, is a unique record of a Jewish woman's detention in the first women's concentration camp in Moringen (housed in part of an old-established workhouse), at a time when most other inmates were communists or Jehovah's Witnesses. This original translation of her wry and perceptive memoir is accompanied by an extensive introduction that sets Herz's experience in the history both of political detention under the Nazi regime and of the German workhouse system."--Publisher's website.

subjects: Biography,  Concentration camps,  German Prisoners and prisons,  Jewish Personal narratives,  Jews,  Moringen (Concentration camp),  Political prisoners,  Women concentration camp inmates,  World War, 1939-1945,  World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, german,  World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, jewish,  Jews, germany,  Jews, biography,  Political prisoners, germany,  Women internment camp inmates,  Women Nazi concentration camp inmates

People: Gabriele Herz (b. 1886)

Places: Germany