| | Margot Dreschel: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | On April 27, 1942, Dreschel was selected for transport to the newly opened Auschwitz (Auschwitz: A Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II) I camp in Poland (Poland: A republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II). |
 | | She regularly moved between the Auschwitz I camp and Birkenau (Birkenau: more facts about this subject), and involved herself in selections of women and children to be sent to the gas chamber (gas chamber: Instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced; used to kill people or animals) s. |
 | | In January 1945, she was moved back to the Ravensbruck subcamp at Neustadt-Glewe, and fled from there in April 1945 as Nazi (Nazi: A German member of Adolf Hitler's political party) Germany (Germany: A republic in central Europe; split into East German and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990) fell. |
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