The story
Date: 12 June 1942
Departure: Beuthen
Arrival: Auschwitz
Camp registration: After arrival at Auschwitz, deportees were registered under prisoner numbers 7609–7618.
Context: After fleeing discovered the unit of 200 Polish is Women especially tuned into the camp punishment. they are transferred to the penal company, where hair is cut off, so they look like the Jewish women prisoners.
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