Women in Auschwitz were also called ‘Muslims’ in masculine grammatical form

Evidence

Ryn and Klodzinski, however, make abundantly clear that even women were called “Muslims, Muse/manner’ in the masculine form (sometimes, but not always, with an addition as in “weibliche Muselmanner” (Langbein, Menschen in Auschwitz, u4). Many of the testimonies on Muslims are written by women and on women. Yet here, too, the question of recognizability and readability emerges no less imperatively. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1222

Categorization

• QUESTION: The gendering of the ‘Muslim’ camp category — masculine even when applied to women — raises questions about how the term’s recognizability functioned differently across sexes.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 1222