The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück: How an Intrepid Band of Frenchwomen Resisted the Nazis in Hitler's All-Female Concentration Camp
By Lynne Olson
Random House, 2025

Four Frenchwomen who had been active in the Resistance were imprisoned in Germany’s infamous all-women’s concentration camp, Ravensbrück, where most inmates were political prisoners. The women used the skills they honed as partisans to band together and defy their German captors, finding ways to thwart the Nazis and keep one another alive amid unimaginable terror and brutality. After the war, their courage and resourcefulness continued as they fought to ensure that their story and the needs of women like them would not be forgotten.

About the Author
Lynne Olson is The New York Times bestselling author of 10 books, including Citizens of London and Madame Fourcade's Secret War, featured at HBF in 2019. She has been a consulting historian for the National WWII Museum and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Olson and her husband live in DC and sometimes write together.

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