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Apr 11, 2023 · Volunteers were recruited via advertisements in German newspapers asking for women to show their love for the Reich and join the SS-Gefolge (“SS-Retinue”, a Schutzstaffel (SS) support and service organization for women). Additionally, some were conscripted based on data in their SS files.
Nov 30, 2021 · The Second World War changed the United States for women, and women in turn transformed their nation. Over three hundred fifty thousand women volunteered for military service, while twenty times as many stepped into civilian jobs, including positions previously closed to them.
View photos connected to the experiences of women during the Holocaust, as well as the important role women played in resistance activities. Anne Frank at 11 years of age Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1940.
One of America’s only women war correspondents reports on the liberation of the concentration camps, Soviet and American troops meeting at Torgau, and Hitler’s burning villa in Berchtesgaden. March 28, 2024. Top Photo: Freed prisoners at Dachau scavenging in the dump. © Lee Miller Archives, England 2024.
ID photos of an inmate at Auschwitz. Identification pictures of a female inmate of the Auschwitz camp. Poland, between 1942 and 1945. Item View
Jan 26, 2015 · 24 Photos Of Life Inside Ravensbrück, The Nazis’ Only All-Female Concentration Camp. View Gallery. Who Was Sent To Ravensbrück? World War II saw 130,000 female prisoners pass through the gates of Ravensbrück — most of whom never walked back out. What's surprising is that a relatively small number of those women were Jewish.
Many women worked on buses and trains like the girl seen here in a photo sent to her by a friend who addressed her as Ursa. The book she carries indicates the location is Cologne while the script sewn on her sleeve relates to her war service—one of the many Helferin or female volunteers who increasingly provided Germany’s infrastructure ...
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