The HORRIFIC Executions Of The Women Of Auschwitz

During the Second World War, thousands of women found themselves taken from their homes and families and were deported to concentration camps. The largest camp established by the SS and the Third Reich was Auschwitz in Poland, and inside Auschwitz over 1 million people were killed. It was a site of depravity, and the women’s camp there was known for being horrific in it’s conditions and the guards were very brutal. Thousands of women never made it through the gates of Auschwitz as when they arrived to the camp with their children they were executed and exterminated straight away, being selected to go to the gas chambers. But inside of the women’s camp, there was a large amount of disease and suffering. There was said at one point to be one toilet between 30,000 women and also there was a lack of clean water and food. Thousands of women died from disease, starvation, execution and brutality at the hands of the guards. Female guards such as Irma Grese, Elisabeth Volkenrath and Maria Mandl wo