Interview with Tamara Dmitrievna Ischenko about the Occupation of Rostov-on-Don, and Life in the Concentration Women's Camp Ravensbruk
An interview with Tamara Dmitrievna Ischenko is devoted to her biography before the war, during the war and post-war period. Before the war, she studied as a pharmacist at a medical college in Rostov-on-Don. At the beginning of the war the respondent was only fifteen years old. The girl witnessed the events of the first and second occupations of Rostov-on-Don, and helped the wounded in hospital. In her interview Tamara tells how she was taken to Germany for forced labour. The respondent tells the story of life in forced labour. After she and other girls sabotaged work in a factory, she was sent to the largest women’s concentration camp in Ravensbruk. There Tamara Dmitrievna had to face all the horrors of the concentration camp. After her release, she was filtered and repatriated to her native Rostov-on-Don. An interview with T.D. Ischenko is a valuable source and evidence of the memory of the war, occupation and Nazi terror in Germany and Russia.