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View photos connected to the experiences of women during the Holocaust, as well as the important role women played in resistance activities.
The only four known photographs to depict the process of mass murder in the gas chambers of Nazi concentration camps, these images were taken at Auschwitz-Birkenau by a member of the Sonderkommando, a group of mainly Jewish prisoners forced to help carry out the atrocities.
The picture was taken illegaly by the memebers of the Sonderkommando in 1944. Here we can see women driven by the SS-men to one of the gas chambers.
11 wrz 2011 · In the Soviet Union alone, some 800,000 women served alongside men in army units during the war. Collected here are images that capture some of what these women experienced and endured during...
26 sty 2015 · Ravensbrück is often overshadowed by stories of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, but the all-female camp saw some of the worst atrocities of WWII. The camp was made to hold "deviant" women: Jews, Roma, spies, resistance fighters, communists, criminals, prostitutes, and lesbians.
The Stroop Report contains a picture of HeHalutz female fighters captured with weapons. During the Warsaw Rising of 1944, female members of the Home Army were couriers and medics, but many carried weapons and took part in the fighting.
photographs thought to have been taken during this pogrom. Some images show terrified looking partially clothed and naked women surrounded by groups of civilian men, some wielding sticks. German soldiers are visible in some of the pictures. One shows a woman completely naked standing in the street with items of her clothing around her ankles.
