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Sisterhood and Survival
To honour International Women’s Day, we want to share the story of sisters, Ibi and Judith. During the Holocaust the challenges facing men and women were unique to their genders.
Although both men and women were both at risk of extermination, the unique challenges faced by women led to them finding different ways to survive in the concentration camps to their male counterparts.
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Sisters Ibi and Judith survived the Holocaust due to these extraordinary bonds of female friendship and support.
Selection
The goal of the selection process was at Auschwitz-Birkenau was to extract forced labour from new arrivals.
Women were more likely to be deemed unfit for work, especially if they were pregnant, had young children or were accompanying elderly relatives. Many women were therefore sent straight to the gas chambers and to their deaths, and not given the chance to survive.
Ibi Ginsburg arrived on the ramp of Birkenau in 1944 with her mother, father and thr