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Mar 26 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
26 March 1942 | First female prisoner arrived at #Auschwitz: 999 German women transferred from KL Ravensbrück & 999 Slovak Jewish women transported from Poprad. They were placed in 10 blocks of Auschwitz I camp (1-10) previously isolated from the rest of the camp with a wall.
The transport of Slovak Jewish women from Poprad was the first official transport of Jews deported to KL Auschwitz organized by the RSHA - the Reich Main Security Office.
Among some 400,000 people registered in #Auschwitz as prisoners of the concentration camp, there were ca. 131,000 women: 82,000 Jewish, 31,000 Polish, 11,000 Roma & Sinti as well as Russian, Belorussian, German, French, Czech & Yugoslavian.
From transports of Jews deported by the Germans for extermination to #Auschwitz SS doctors selected hundreds of thousands of women & girls to be murdered in gas chambers immediately after their arrival. Pregnant women & mothers with babies were murdered too.
See our new online lesson dedicated to the fate of women in Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_e…

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