Clodagh Finn: Remembering the forgotten Cork woman held in Hitler’s concentration camp

It is not at all clear if Elisabeth Boslooper ever returned to the city to join her family but now, at least, we know that this young woman from Cork was held in two concentration camps during the Second World War

The memorial sculpture at Ravensbrück, which is north of Berlin.

The only image we have of Cork woman Elisabeth Boslooper is the one conjured up in the document filled out when she was imprisoned at Ravensbrück, Hitler’s barbaric concentration camp for women situated some 90km north of Berlin.

It tells us that she was born in Cork on November 11, 1923, and, at the time of her detention, she was a well-built woman of 165cm with brown hair, brown eyes, an oval, full face, and a snub nose.