Reply #11: Yep - a scene resembling Auschwitz should really show them

[Matariki]

Many women describe their horror at being required to undress in front of leering SS men and at being shaved by male prisoners. Rose Meth, one of the women who smuggled gunpowder to the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz, said, "They made us undress completely naked in front of the Nazi soldiers. We wanted to die. They shaved our heads. They shaved all our hair, everywhere." Sarah Nomberg-Pryztyk, an Auschwitz prisoner, explained that they were treated like cattle and hit and kicked as they were processed: "in silence with tears streaming down our cheeks," they were made to spread their legs and "the body hair was shorn too."35 Fifteen year old Livia Bitton Jackson was too embarrassed to expose her breasts, "two growing buds, taut and sensitive", until the sound of rifle shot jolted her and she removed her bra quickly.36

The ordeal of deliberate humiliation began in the ghetto for Cecilie Klein, just before loaded into the cattle cars: We were marched off in groups to a brick factory near the station for a degrading body search. First we were ordered to strip naked, men and women together. Then the women and the girls were lined up on one side and were ordered to lie on our sides on a wooden table. While an SS officer gawked and jeered, a woman with a stick poked around our private parts. My burning cheeks betrayed my sense of shame and humiliation. I sobbed for my mother, subjected to this bestial invasion.


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