"On Auschwitz" (38): Women supervisors at Auschwitz

On Auschwitz

Over two hundred women served the SS in KL Auschwitz. They were divided into three groups according to the duties they performed: the biggest group constituted the so-called Aufseherinnen, whose main task was to watch over women prisoners; the second group was formed by women employed in communication services described as SS-Helferinnen working in SS headquarters offices as radiotelegraph operators, stenographers and telephone operators; the last group consisted of nurses.

Dr. Sylwia Wysińska from the Archives of the Museum talks about the women supervivors at Auschwitz

We wish to thank Jonathan Jetter from the Right Angle Productions & Brooke Stocken for their help in production of the English version of the podcast.

(picture: Maria Mandl as a defendant in a trail in 1947)