The word of the day is Aufseherin:
"Of the 55,000 guards who served in Nazi concentration camps, about 3,700 were women.[citation needed] In 1942, the first female guards arrived at Auschwitz and Majdanek from Ravensbrück. The year after, the Nazis began conscripting women because of a guard shortage.
The German title for this position, Aufseherin (plural Aufseherinnen) means female overseer or attendant."
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"The ultimate ambiguity of the plot is that we cannot be sure if Lisa really sees Marta on the ship. The Aufseherin may be hallucinating, her mind corroded by guilt and fear."
- Alex Ross, "Testament: Recovering a Holocaust opera by Mieczysław Weinberg", 5 September 2011 The New Yorker
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