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After the spending some time in the camps, new perceptions came to define selections experiences for women. Preliminary medical examinations distinguished those women strong and healthy enough for slave labor from those too weak or ill to be of any real use. Any woman found in unsatisfactory health according to SS standards would be sentenced to death immediately. As a result of the widespread epidemics in their living quarters, a large majority of infected women had much to fear in medical inspections. Vago retells an incident that occurred just before transfer to a new camp, in which her sister Anikó narrowly escaped an SS selection for scabies. She explains that while the infected women were supposedly quarantined, they were most likely sent straight to the crematorium.
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Many memoirs written by women who survived the Holocaust testify to the power of friendship and bonding in the camps. Indeed, female survivors often report that their close relationships with women enabled them to survive. Transcending the boundaries of everyday friendship, women in the camps sometimes formed surrogate familial relationships with one another. This phenomenon, known as Lager Schwestern, figures prominently in women’s many Holocaust memories.
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Women in the Holocaust is a collection of personal stories of mostly female survivors of the Holocaust. The women who tell their stories include details about what classifications qualified someone as Jewish. The sections about resistance include tips for survival and explanations of how they survived.
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The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum commemorates the experiences of Jewish women targeted during World War II in the first such exhibit to focus exclusively on women. Some of the featured women survived the atrocity, some did not.
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Perhaps such shock and suffering did prepare women, at least physically, for the utterly uninhabitable quarters they would come to call home. Vago describes the conditions of her first lodging in the Auschwitz complex, “the quarantine BIII Lager, dubbed Mexico for its poor condition.” (9)From the outside, Vago saw “a huge barren compound…as far as the eye could see.” (10) Inside, she encountered no bunks or beds, just a hard wooden floor on which she and the other women would sleep. A single, small latrine could be used only when authorized, and the entire facility lacked any source of water. It comes as no surprise, then, that Vago ... reports reading signs posted to warn of epidemics.
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In the Hassidic Jewish community of Stamford Hill in north London, artists are as rare as women who work outside the home. So to find a woman artist living here is particularly unusual. But then, by her own admission, Gitl Wallerstein-Braun is "unorthodox orthodox". Now aged 57, she graduated from London's Central Saint Martins last year and is already achieving international success with her photographs of her sculptures.
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