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Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  Wow, this was a hefty book! 727 pages later and after a year of reading this after getting it in Berlin last year, I finally managed to finish reading If This Is A Woman, by Sarah Helm. I was questioning whether I would finish it because I was reading it for so long but I'm glad that I stuck with it because I now have a book review for you. All I can say about this book is that it's incredibly detailed. No wonder it won the Longman-History Today Prize and got so many praises from different newspapers. As the Independent on Sunday said, 'Compelling... (Helm) has painstakingly sought out many survivors and talked to them herself. The results are devastating... What one is left with at the end of this momentous book is a sense of power of human nature, both for good and evil.' Before reading this, I had no idea about Ravensbruck concentration camp for women; the most renouned camp that is always talked about in the hi...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Today I wanted to talk about something that I heard on TV that actually has got a lot to do with the book that I'm currently reading. I was watching Doctor Who and it was the specific scene, where Bill, the Doctor's companion, starts stamping her foot because the Doctor doesn't try to save the poor boy who's just been killed by a bunch of aliens. Understandably so, she's upset that the Doctor doesn't try to save the boy and it shocks her because she's never seen a person die before. She also begins to question how many people have died because of the Doctor. The Doctor then replies saying that he's lost count and this outrages Bill. Anyways, long story short, the Doctor says something that I thought was quite philosophical. He said that he is over 2000 years old and that he doesn't have the time to be outraged. This really made me think because in modern day society, there are so many people wh...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, I've been continuing reading Sarah Helm's book, If This Is A Woman, and the section I've been paying close attention to was this time not about Ravensbrück, but actually about Auschwitz Birkenau, in Poland. I was completely and utterly shocked by the way the women in the camp were treated. By this point, it was quite late into Hitler's reign as Fuhrer, and the Final Solution was already being implemented. I thought that Ravensbrück was bad, but Auschwitz was a hundred times worse. Women were being transported like cattle from Ravensbrück to Auschwitz. Before, the women didn't know of their fate, but when they hid notes in their clothes about where they were, the women back at the camp now knew that they were heading to another bigger camp. The women never returned, either because they remained at the camp or they were being gassed as groups, since many women prisoners had to make selections about who was sick ...