Alice Orlowski was born on 30 September 1903 in Berlin, then part of the German Empire. The Second World War began on the 1st of September 1939. In 1941 Orlowski was deployed in Ravensbrück concentration camp. Opened in May 1939, Ravensbrück was the only major women's camp established by the Nazis. In October 1942, Alice Orlowski was selected as one of the guards to be posted at the Majdanek camp located near Lublin, in German-occupied Poland. During the entire period of its existence, the Majdanek camp was under construction. Construction on the camp began in October 1941 with the arrival of about 2,000 Soviet prisoners of war. However, most of them were too weak to work and virtually all were dead by February 1942. Majdanek primarily served to concentrate Jews whom the Germans spared temporarily for forced labor. It occasionally functioned as a killing site to murder victims who could not be killed at other killing centers such as Belzec, Sobibor or Treblinka Between 80,000 – 120,000 pe
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