Jewish women entering Auschwitz-Birkenau, who weren’t sent to gas chambers upon arrival, were striped from their clothing also their heads and intimate parts of their bodies were shaved. From that moment they were treated not as women but as subhumans whose destiny was inescapable death. Some of Jewish female inmates of Auschwitz-Birkenau were forced to participate in medical experiments. Moreover, a number of Jewish women in order to save their life had to sacrifice
their unborn babies. This paper presents the issue of violating the sexual nature of Jewish female prisoners in Auschwitz-Birkenau through painful and humiliating sterilization experiments, castrations, and forced and voluntary abortions. I will illustrate the nature of Dr Carl Clauberg’s sterilization experiments in which chosen Jewish women had their uteruses injected with a specially invented caustic liquid that blocked the fallopian tubes. Furthermore, I will present the procedure of surgical castration of Jewish women that was a consequence of Dr Horst Schumann’s sterilization experiments through X-Ray. I will also investigate the extreme circumstances that forced women to abort their unborn babies. Finally, I will analyze the post war testimonies related to the topics mentioned above revealing their consequences on psychological health of their victims.
