<p>Jewish women in the Vyhne camp. Czechoslovakia, between 1941 and 1944</p>

women

From perpetrators and victims to leaders and rescuers, women embodied many roles during the Holocaust and World War II. As victims, women were often uniquely targeted by the Nazi regime. 

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