The human “rabbits” of Ravensbrück
The story of the 74 “rabbits” encapsulates the worst atrocities of Ravensbrück, but also the indomitable human spirit and determination of these young women to survive, not to be annihilated without a trace.
Not only did 63 of the 74 women survive the horrific surgical bone fracturing experiments that left them crippled and in chronic pain; they managed to conceal their mutilated legs during selections for death.
In 1944, when the SS sought to kill the “rabbits” to remove the evidence of the diabolical experiments, the entire camp conspired to keep them hidden.
In 1943, Bogumila Jasuik and Krysia Czyz began sending invisible messages written in urine between the lines and in the margins of the censored letters to their families to inform them about the experiments and the unspeakable suffering in the camp.
However, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICC) in Geneva which had also received the information—as it had received other news about the atrocities at the camp—
did nothing to intervene
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