Who Were the Women of Ravensbrück? Lynne Olson on Courage in Captivity
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
Guy Kawasaki
4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
What makes ordinary people do extraordinary things? In this episode of Remarkable People, bestselling author and historian Lynne Olson joins Guy Kawasaki to uncover the powerful story behind The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück—a true account of courage, solidarity, and resistance inside Hitler’s largest concentration camp for women.
Through her signature storytelling, Olson shares how a group of French women banded together to defy the Nazis and protect one another in the darkest of times—and why their legacy still speaks to us today.
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| 0:00.0 | As we head into the new year, leaders everywhere are wondering how to help their teams do the best work of their lives. |
| 0:07.1 | And here's the encouraging part. When people have the right skills, everything gets better. |
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| 0:29.0 | Invest in your people and watch remarkable things happen. |
| 0:32.4 | Project Management Institute. |
| 0:34.3 | Learn more at p.m.i.org. |
| 0:37.1 | I think the story of these women at Robinsburg is so timely is |
| 0:41.5 | they show, I think, the incredible power that people have, ordinary citizens have, even in the |
| 0:49.8 | worst of time, if they come together, if they band together to fight against evil. And maybe I'm an |
| 0:56.4 | optimist, but I do see a bit of that now, that, you know, that by yourself there's really |
| 1:01.6 | nothing you can do, but if you form a collective, that there are things you can do and you can |
| 1:06.8 | change history. And people have changed history. |
| 1:17.9 | Hello everybody. I'm Guy Kawasaki. This is the Remarkable People podcast. And as you know, |
| 1:25.1 | we scour the globe for remarkable people. And today, we have what's called a twofer because we have a remarkable guest and she's written multiple books but in particular |
| 1:31.0 | she's written a book about some remarkable French women during World War II so it's the |
| 1:36.8 | inspiration and information both from our guest and the subject of her book her name of course is |
| 1:44.0 | Lynn Olson, |
| 1:45.2 | and she is a best-selling author and historian, |
| 1:50.1 | and she's really celebrated for uncovering untold stories of World War II. |
| 1:55.3 | And the main focus of today's interview |
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