Die vergessenen Frauen von Mauthausen : die weiblichen Häftlinge des Konzentrationslagers Mauthausen und ihre Geschichte

Begins with a discussion of the role of women in the Third Reich according to Nazi ideology, and surveys the situation of women who were persecuted and sent to concentration camps. Relates briefly to the internment of women in Ravensbrück, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. Focuses on women interned in Mauthausen from 1942, and on the establishment of a special women's section in the camp in September 1944, where 4,065 women were registered, among them 885 Jews. In the satellite camps Lenzing and Amstetten, 597 Jewish women were interned, while in St. Lambrecht, Mittersill, and Hirtenberg the number of Jews is not indicated. Mauthausen was classified as a third-grade camp, equivalent to an extermination camp. The Jews were the most ill-treated, and were more likely to be sent to labor commandos which meant almost certain death. Describes the death marches of thousands of Hungarian Jews, most of them women and children, to Mauthausen in March 1945; the number of those who died is not known. Notes that many women died before and during the liberation of the camp as a result of overcrowding, lack of sanitary conditions, and epidemics. 1. Aufl. 249 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm