Ragnhild Nikoline Andersen

Ragnhild Nikoline Andersen (1907–1990) was a Danish trade unionist, politician, and a member of the Communist Party of Denmark (DKP).

During the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, she was sent by the Gestapo to the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdansk in Poland, where she spent 20 months in dreadful conditions before being rescued.

[1] When the communist party was declared illegal under the German occupation, she went underground but was soon arrested and sent to Vestre Prison in September 1941 and then to Horserød.

Andersen tells of her experiences in great detail in Vi blev reddet denne Gang (We were saved that time) published in 1945.

[6] She was particularly active on social issues, calling for improvements in conditions for the disadvantaged, for the establishment of sex clinics, for more extensive access to abortion and for a woman's right to part-time employment.