And I Am Afraid of My Dreams

In February 1941, Wanda Poltawska was arrested by the Gestapo. She was nineteen years old. Charged with aiding and abetting the resistance movement -- a heinous crime in Nazi-occupied Poland -- she was sent to the notorious Ravensbruck concentration camp. This is Poltawska's account of the four year [...]
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In February 1941, Wanda Poltawska was arrested by the Gestapo. She was nineteen years old. Charged with aiding and abetting the resistance movement -- a heinous crime in Nazi-occupied Poland -- she was sent to the notorious Ravensbruck concentration camp. This is Poltawska's account of the four years spent in the camp, where the prospect of death, whether from starvation, exhaustion, or summary execution, was a daily reality. Wanda was used as one of the camp's "guinea pigs" and became a victim of cruel medical experimentation by Nazi doctors. Many of her friends died or were left with horrific physical and psychological injuries as a result of these experiments. Wanda bravely faced each day and pledged to become a doctor if she ever got out alive. Originally written nearly fifty years ago, this powerful story is an enduring testament to the courage of the human spirit.