The conditions in the camps were inhumane, and women were often subjected to forced labor, starvation, and medical experiments.

The conditions in the camps were inhumane, and women were often subjected to forced labor, starvation, and medical experiments.

Women were treated differently in concentration camps than men. The camp was designed to dehumanize prisoners, and women were often subjected to sexual abuse and other forms of torture including.

One of the most notorious concentration camps where women were held was Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, women were subjected to forced labor, starvation, and medical experimentation. Many were killed in gas chambers or through other forms of execution.

The camp was designed to dehumanize prisoners, and women were often subjected to sexual abuse and other forms of torture.

Despite the atrocities that women faced in concentration camps, many managed to survive and tell their stories.

Some even organized resistance movements within the camps, showing remarkable bravery and resilience in the face of overwhelming adversity.

Today, their stories serve as a reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust and the need to ensure that such atrocities never happen again.

It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labor camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben; and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' final solution to the Jewish question.

After Germany sparked World War II by invading Poland in September 1939, the Schutzstaffel (SS) converted Auschwitz I, an army barracks, into a prisoner-of-war camp.

The initial transport of political detainees to Auschwitz consisted almost solely of Poles for whom the camp was initially established.

The bulk of inmates were Polish for the first two years. In May 1940, German criminals brought to the camp as functionaries established the camp's reputation for sadism.

 Prisoners were beaten, tortured, and executed for the most trivial reasons. The first gassings—of Soviet and Polish prisoners—took place in block 11 of Auschwitz I around August 1941.

Construction of Auschwitz II began the following month, and from 1942 until late 1944 freight trains delivered Jews from all over German-occupied Europe to its gas chambers. Of the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, 1.1 million were murdered.