Resisting obliteration: learning about the lives and deaths of Jewish women during the Holocaust

There were domestic differences between the lives of men and women during the Holocaust. There was also a difference in how men and women reacted to what happened when they arrived at Auschwitz. The experience for women appeared to be more traumatic with regard to personal modesty. And while men could still recognise each other with their heads shaved, women often became anonymous. There were also the differences in physical strength, education and also being targeted as Jews and as women. Women often made great efforts to remain gender-anonymous to avoid molestation and worse by the Nazi guards, regardless of racial laws.