The Budy Massacre One night in early October 1942, German women prisoner functionaries battered 90 French Jewish women to death. 1/n The events of 81 years ago have never been fully explained. Many sources term it a mutiny. - ThreadSky

rudigeerts.bsky.social • 63 days ago

The Budy Massacre

One night in early October 1942, German women prisoner functionaries battered 90 French Jewish women to death.
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The events of 81 years ago have never been fully explained. Many sources term it a mutiny.

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rudigeerts.bsky.social•63 days ago

2/n Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess referred to it as the “Budy-Revolte.”
The penal company for women prisoners in Budy, about 7 km. from Oświęcim, was founded in June 1942 in reprisal for an escape from Auschwitz by a Polish woman prisoner. 400 women of various ethnic

rudigeerts.bsky.social•63 days ago

3/n backgrounds were imprisoned in Budy. Their living conditions were lamentable, and the Germans forced them to perform backbreaking labor. German women criminals and prostitutes made up the cadre in charge of the penal company.
The massacre of the French Jewish women prisoners

rudigeerts.bsky.social•63 days ago

4/n took place in early October. Using clubs, hatchets, and rifle butts—and throwing some of their victims from the windows in the loft of the building—female prisoner functionaries and SS guards butchered 90 women.
The camp administration investigated the incident, but failed to

rudigeerts.bsky.social•63 days ago

5/n discover the cause. Commandant Rudolf Hoess defined the massacre as “a revolt instigated by prisoners who used stones and clubs in an attempt to terrorize the capo and make their way out of the camp.
SS man Pery Broad claimed that a German woman noticed a stone in the hand of

rudigeerts.bsky.social•63 days ago

6/n Jewish woman returning from the toilet to the dormitory room. Broad felt that this was a “hysterical illusion.” Nevertheless, the German woman called for help and shouted that the Jewish woman had struck her. At that point, the female supervisors and guards began slaughtering

rudigeerts.bsky.social•63 days ago

7/7 the French Jews.
The following day, the Germans exterminated all the women who remained alive after being injured in the massacre. They also killed six German women functionaries who had taken part in the incident.

ml-kurze.bsky.social•62 days ago

Thanks for sharing.
A slightly more personal question, but do you work for the Auschwitz museum or are you working independent on these stories?

rudigeerts.bsky.social•62 days ago

I work totally independent. Thank you for asking. 🎄

bobbigv.bsky.social•62 days ago

Thank you for telling their story 🙏

rudigeerts.bsky.social•62 days ago

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