Language:
English
Year of publication:
2017
Titel der Quelle:
Dapim; Studies on the Shoah
Angaben zur Quelle:
31,1 (2017) 45-67
Keywords:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish women in the Holocaust
;
World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance
;
Sonderkommandos
Abstract:
On 5 January 1945, four Jewish female prisoners were executed in Auschwitz by hanging. They had been charged with stealing gunpowder from the factory where they worked as slave laborers and smuggling it to members of the Sonderkommando who perpetrated the uprising in Birkenau on 7 October. Examines the details of the planning and execution of the Sonderkommando uprising. States that ca. 30 women were actually involved in smuggling gunpowder over a period of seven months prior to the uprising. The reason why those four women were hanged in January was twofold: to terrorize the laborers at the Union factory in order to prevent further acts of sabotage, and to demonstrate to the higher echelons of the SS and the Army that they are determined to put an end to sabotage once and for all.
Note:
In Hebrew:
,
"דפים לחקר השואה" ל (תשעז) 131-159
DOI:
10.1080/23256249.2017.1294315
URL:
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