Being a woman with no rights, treated as an object, and tortured everyday was a huge struggle in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Life in concentration camps was extremely miserable for both men and women, but all of the little difficulties women faced, added up to create one big hardship. It was worse to be a woman in the concentration camps because they were more vulnerable to beatings and torture, had a higher chance of being killed right away, and had a hard time with excessive bleeding from menstruation. Elie Wiesel’s experience in the camps was different than a woman’s in many ways. Women were most likely to survive if they were in good and healthy condition. Pregnant woman and children were killed immediately in gas chambers.
