WOMAN DURING THE HOLOCAUST BOTH JEWISH AND NON JEWISH, TO BRUTAL PERSECUTION THAT WAS SOMETIMES UNIQUE TO THE GENDER OF THE VICTIMS

 WOMAN DURING THE HOLOCAUST BOTH JEWISH AND NON JEWISH, TO BRUTAL PERSECUTION THAT WAS SOMETIMES UNIQUE TO THE GENDER OF THE VICTIMS

 Woman during the holocaust both Jewish and non-Jewish, to brutal persecution that was sometimes unique to the gender of the victims.

The Nazi regime targeted all Jews, both men and women, for persecution and eventually death. 

The regime frequently subjected women, however, both Jewish and non-Jewish, to brutal persecution that was sometimes unique to the gender of the victims.

 Nazi ideology also targeted Roma View This Term in the Glossary (Gypsy) women, Polish women, and women with disabilities living in institutions.

 Certain individual camps and certain areas within concentration camps were designated specifically for female prisoners.

 In May 1939, the SS opened Ravensbrück, the largest Nazi concentration camp established for women.

 Over 100,000 women had been incarcerated in Ravensbrück by the time Soviet troops liberated the camp in 1945.

In 1942, SS authorities established a compound in Auschwitz-Birkenau (also known as Auschwitz II) to incarcerate female prisoners. 

Among the first inmates were prisoners whom the SS transferred from Ravensbrück. At Bergen-Belsen, the camp authorities established a women's camp in 1944. 

The SS transferred thousands of Jewish female prisoners from Ravensbrück and Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen during the last year of World War II.

 The Germans and their collaborators spared neither women nor children—Jewish or non-Jewish—in conducting mass murder operations.

 Nazi ideology promoted the complete annihilation of all Jews, regardless of age or gender.

 SS and police officials carried out that policy under the codename “Final Solution.” 

German SS and police officials shot both women and men in mass shooting operations at hundreds of locations on occupied Soviet territory.

 During deportation operations, pregnant women and mothers of small children were consistently labeled “incapable of work.” 

They were sent to killing centers, where camp officials often included them in the first groups to be sent to the gas chambers.