Recipe Book

Ravensbruck Cookbook, Sydney Jewish Museum Collection

                                                                                                   Recipe sharing ironically played a salutary role within    the camps. Women especially, shared recipes as a way to forge bonds with other prisoners and diminish the dehumanisation that they experienced. Recipes were passed on verbally.  Beset by constant thoughts of food in Ravensbrück concentration camp, a starving Edith Peer and friends jotted down recipes on stolen paper. Recalling the preparation of their favourites, from “Mushroom filled with chicken liver” to “Transylvanian cabbage” and “Cheese dumplings” helped to alleviate their hunger.

Donated by Edith Peer

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