We were fortunate to have 2 speakers for this webinar who spoke about the Ukrainian Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp as documented in the bilingual book “Ukrainian women of Ravensbrück concentration camp: voices of prisoners / Українські жінки концтабору Равенсбрюк: голоси в’язнів’“.

In the first presentation, Kalyna Bezchlibnyk-Butler (Solonynka) described how she became involved in researching Ukrainian women who were incarcerated at Ravensbrück Concentration camp. She provided a brief description of Ravensbrück camp and its prisoners, gave an overview of the content of the book, and talked about methods and sources used to compile the text as well as a database of Ukrainian prisoners.

In the second presentation, Lydia Replansky spoke about her Mother, Olha Froliak-Eliashevsky and her incarceration as a political prisoner in Nazi prisons and Ravensbrück concentration camp from December 11, 1943 to April 5, 1945. She recounted her Mother’s arrest on December 11, 1943 during her studies at the University of Vienna, the interrogations of the Gestapo, the incarceration in Ravensbrück concentration camp and the forced labour at the Siemens factory making electrical components for the German war effort.

A video recording of the Webinar presentations can be found here. We also have a recording of the Introductory and Q&A segments from that evening.

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