Bibliographic exhibition "Women in the Shoah"
The Shoah seen from a different angle than usual.
Don't miss the interesting bibliographic exhibition presented at the IIS "Marconi Lussu" in the Via Paganini complex.
24 from January to February 14 2025
«The victims of Nazi persecution and extermination were both ethnic men and women
Jewish. However, women – both Jewish and non-Jewish – were often subjected to a
exceptionally brutal persecution by the regime. Nazi ideology targeted
also Roma (Gypsy) women, those of Polish nationality and those who had physical defects or
mentally ill and living in institutions.
Entire camps, as well as special areas within other concentration camps, were designated
specifically to women. In May 1939, the Nazis opened the largest concentration camp
an exclusively female concentration camp, that of Ravensbrück, where more than 100.000 women
were incarcerated there between its opening and the time when Soviet troops liberated it,
in 1945. A women's camp was also established at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942 (known
also known as Auschwitz II), to incarcerate mainly women; among the first to be there
Those locked up were prisoners from Ravensbrück. Similarly, an area
female was created in Bergen-Belsen in 1944, where the SS transferred thousands of prisoners
Jewish women from Ravensbrück and Auschwitz.
[…] During deportations, pregnant women and mothers of small children
they were generally classified as "unfit for work" and were therefore transferred to camps
of extermination, where the selectors almost always placed them in the groups of prisoners
destined to die immediately in the gas chambers.
[…] The Nazis also conducted mass murder operations against Roma women in the camp
Auschwitz concentration camp; disabled women were killed during operations called T-4
and “Euthanasia”…
In the ghettos, as well as in the concentration camps, the Nazis selected women to send them
to forced labor which often resulted in their death. Furthermore, Nazi doctors and researchers often
They used Jewish and Roma women for sterilization experiments and other inhumane practices.
of research, contrary to any ethics. Both in the camps and in the ghettos, women were
particularly vulnerable and often subjected to both beatings and rape. Jewish women in
pregnant women tried to hide their condition so as not to be forced to abort. Even the
women deported from Poland and the Soviet Union to be used as forced labor for
the Reich, were often beaten and raped, or forced to perform sexual acts in exchange for food.
or other comforts. Pregnancy was the obvious consequence for many Polish women,
Soviet and Yugoslavian women sent to forced labor and forced into sexual relations with the Germans. If the
so-called “race experts” determined that the child could not be
“Germanized”, women were generally forced to abort, or sent to give birth
in makeshift hospitals, where the conditions would have guaranteed the death of the unborn children. Other times,
Instead, they were simply sent back to their regions of origin, without food or assistance.
medical…».
(From: Holocaust Encyclopedia)
Jewish. However, women – both Jewish and non-Jewish – were often subjected to a
exceptionally brutal persecution by the regime. Nazi ideology targeted
also Roma (Gypsy) women, those of Polish nationality and those who had physical defects or
mentally ill and living in institutions.
Entire camps, as well as special areas within other concentration camps, were designated
specifically to women. In May 1939, the Nazis opened the largest concentration camp
an exclusively female concentration camp, that of Ravensbrück, where more than 100.000 women
were incarcerated there between its opening and the time when Soviet troops liberated it,
in 1945. A women's camp was also established at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1942 (known
also known as Auschwitz II), to incarcerate mainly women; among the first to be there
Those locked up were prisoners from Ravensbrück. Similarly, an area
female was created in Bergen-Belsen in 1944, where the SS transferred thousands of prisoners
Jewish women from Ravensbrück and Auschwitz.
[…] During deportations, pregnant women and mothers of small children
they were generally classified as "unfit for work" and were therefore transferred to camps
of extermination, where the selectors almost always placed them in the groups of prisoners
destined to die immediately in the gas chambers.
[…] The Nazis also conducted mass murder operations against Roma women in the camp
Auschwitz concentration camp; disabled women were killed during operations called T-4
and “Euthanasia”…
In the ghettos, as well as in the concentration camps, the Nazis selected women to send them
to forced labor which often resulted in their death. Furthermore, Nazi doctors and researchers often
They used Jewish and Roma women for sterilization experiments and other inhumane practices.
of research, contrary to any ethics. Both in the camps and in the ghettos, women were
particularly vulnerable and often subjected to both beatings and rape. Jewish women in
pregnant women tried to hide their condition so as not to be forced to abort. Even the
women deported from Poland and the Soviet Union to be used as forced labor for
the Reich, were often beaten and raped, or forced to perform sexual acts in exchange for food.
or other comforts. Pregnancy was the obvious consequence for many Polish women,
Soviet and Yugoslavian women sent to forced labor and forced into sexual relations with the Germans. If the
so-called “race experts” determined that the child could not be
“Germanized”, women were generally forced to abort, or sent to give birth
in makeshift hospitals, where the conditions would have guaranteed the death of the unborn children. Other times,
Instead, they were simply sent back to their regions of origin, without food or assistance.
medical…».
(From: Holocaust Encyclopedia)
