Nanda Herbermann (1903–1979)

Nanda Herbermann was a German Catholic writer and editor arrested by the Gestapo in 1941 for criticizing the Nazi regime. She was sent to the concentration camp at Ravensbrück, where she was put in charge of a barracks of prostitutes. She was released in 1943 at the intervention of her family and survived the war. In 1946, she published wrote one of the earliest memoirs of the camps, Der Gesegnete Abgrund: Schutzhäftling #6582 im Frauenkonzentrationslager Ravensbrück (The Blessed Abyss: Inmate #6582 in Ravensbruck Concentration Camp for Women).