If not killed on arrival at the camps, as many were, women were stripped and shaved, and some were sexually abused despite the racial strictures of the Nazi ideology against sex with Jews. The crowded barracks of the women in the camps were particularly neglected. Women also had to face the loss of children and husbands, both being parted from them, and the likelihood of their death. Any babies they gave birth to were killed at once, commonly being drowned in a bucket.
