Women in Auschwitz

The first transport of women arrived to Auschwitz on March 26, 1942, 999 German women from KL Ravensbrück. The same day, transports of Jewish women from Poprad, Slovakia, came to the camp, a few weeks later the first transports of Polish women from prisons of Tarnow and Cracow.
Women made up about 30 percent of the prisoners registered in Auschwitz: 82,000 Jewish from various countries, 31,000 Polish; 11,000 Roma and also Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, French, German, Hungarian, Czech, and Yugoslavian. At the beginning woman were placed in Auschwitz I, then in Birkenau, in sectors BIa and BIb.
The former women’s camp, known as the Frauenlager, is visible from the tower of the Gate of Death in Birkenau.
The most extensive part of the book is the collection of accounts by the former prisoners divided into 10 parts: e.g roll calls, selections, labour, punishment, living, sanitary and quarantine conditions. Especially important are the testimonies of survivors
This publication is complemented with graphics (drawings by the former prisoners) and the documentation of the camp administration.