The Chinese Woman of Ravensbrück: Remembering Nadine Hwang

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0300

At Yad Vashem, embroidered into a scrap of red cloth cut from a Nazi flag, there is a Chinese signature: 黄China — “Hwang China.” Most visitors walk past it. The display window partly obscures the name. But that signature, stitched by a Chinese prisoner in the final days of Ravensbrück concentration camp in April 1945, opens a door onto one of the strangest and most forgotten lives of the twentieth century.

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The Chinese Woman of Ravensbrück: Remembering Nadine Hwang