Photograph of “Ravensbrück Women”, 1946/1947

Group photo of survivors of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, taken on the Old Town Square/Staroměstské Náměstí in Prague in around 1946/1947. Berta Lauscher (née Grubhofer), on the right of the picture, was already active in the Communist resistance during the Dollfuß-Schuschnigg dictatorship. She was arrested several times because of her political activities. After 1938 she continued to help members of the Communist Party flee the country. She distributed leaflets, collected support for those in prison and their relatives, and was involved in setting up a secret broadcast station in Upper Austria. In 1943 she was arrested by the Secret State Police (Gestapo) and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Even there she continued to work in the resistance. She survived the concentration camp and remained politically active after the war. As a member of the Austrian Camp Community Ravensbrück (ÖLGR) Berta Lauscher was a lifelong campaigner for education about Nazi crimes and the persecution of women.

Date: 1946

Accession: Donation, 2020

Location: Prague