The Book Hub 📙🐻

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, As I've mentioned in my previous post, I'm currently reading a very interesting historical book called If This Is A Woman by Sarah Helm. Whilst it's a very accurate and fascinating book on Ravensbrück concentration camp for women, it does reveal some shocking truths on how people were treated. Drawn to the 'red Vienna,' a woman named Hanna Sturm, joined a trade union and helped fight anti-fascist battles during Austria's turmoil of the 1930s. However, this often lead her being imprisoned behind bars. Sentenced to 'aggravated arrest' in Ravensbrück, Hanna was confined to a small wooden cell which was 2 metres wide and 2 metres in length. The cell was dark so whilst she tried to get used to the darkness, she often lost track of time. She also had no bed, no mattress but the floor to sit on and only a proper meal was provided on Thursday once a week. 100g of bread and a bowl of so-called coffee was gi

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, If you follow me on Instagram and my main blog, Keeping Up With Juliette,than you will know that back at the start of April I went on a history trip with my school to Berlin. On my trip there, I visited Sachsenhausen former concentration camp where I bought the book If This Is A Woman by Sarah Helm, at one of their book stores there. After reading the first few pages of this book, I realised that Sachsenhausen was a concentration camp for male prisoners. I believe that Sarah Helm wrote another book called If This Is A Man which talks about that particular camp whereas her other book talks specifically about Ravensbrück Concentration Camp for women. So far, I'm finding it really interesting. I never really read the prologue of books but I decided to do so this time since it seemed interesting and I wanted to get some context. Helm talks about how it was really difficult for her to get the information she needed for her book be