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Auschwitz: Women used different survival and sabotage strategies than men at Nazi death camp

  • Written by Judy Baumel-Schwartz, Director, the Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Bar-Ilan University
Auschwitz: Women used different survival and sabotage strategies than men at Nazi death campWomen prisoners at the Auschwitz train station around 1944. ullstein bild via Getty Images

Nearly all the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in occupied Poland, were murdered – either sent to the gas chambers or worked to death. Life expectancy in many of these camps was between six weeks and three months.

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