Dr. Christine Holden

Dr. Holden's major focus continues to be the Ravensbrueck memorial site in Germany.  She has been collecting material from survivors, and also researching and photographing the development of the exhibitions at the site, which is the only concentration camp specifically established to house women.  (Men and children were there also, primarily in the latter period of the war.)  She travels to Ravensbrueck regularly, and has attended several of the annual commemorations of the liberation of the camp.

Also connected to German history are two other projects:  one is the translation and editing of the diary and letters of a Berlin man. The other project involves an Englishman whose political interests took him to the Spanish Civil War, and the British police force in Jordan in the late 30s and early 40s; he later became a Reuters correspondent in West Berlin, but crossed the border into East Berlin and then became a well-known broadcaster on GDR radio, also compiling and editing a journal published in English with news of the GDR.  Coincidentally, one of his wives was a Ravensbrueck survivor.