Cynthia Southern
ASIN: B00KUZY0UQ
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 15
One of the most extraordinary acts of resistance by a woman in Auschwitz-Birkenau occurred on October 23, 1943. A woman named Franceska Mann shot SS-Oberscharführer (Quarter Master Sergeant), Josef Schillinger, in the undressing room of Crematorium II, after stealing his gun, rather than be murdered by gassing.