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

By: Judy Baumel-Schwartz, Bar-Ilan University, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: November 9, 2025

Words: 1,084

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 1 day ago

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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.

Over a million of the Auschwitz dead were Jews, and scholars have concluded that more than half of them were women.

While male and female slave …

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