Following the collapse of the Eastern Front, a group of Jewish women was sent from Auschwitz Birkenau to the border between Czechoslovakia and Germany in order to dig anti-tank trenches; they worked, digging in the Schlesiersee region from October 1944.
Pickaxe used by the female prisoners forced to dig anti-tank trenches in the Schlesiersee area
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Gift of Bernard Robinson, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pickaxe used by the female prisoners forced to dig anti-tank trenches in the Schlesiersee area
