I am currently reading the book "KL Auschwitz, as seen by the SS". The book is a collection of the memoirs of three officers who served at the camp. The footnotes describes the different gassings, and explains who where gassed, and how many from each gender that where instead taken to the camp itself from that specific transport. The trend that I am seeing is that there are usually more women than men. I would automaticly think that men are generaly stronger, probably better suited for hard physical work, and therefore more valuable to the SS.
P. 166 "68 On that day 617 Jews were rought toKL Auschwitz. 37 men and 119 women were admitted to the camp as prisoners, the rest were killed in gas chambers."
This is only one example from a recurring pattern so far in the book. Is it just a coinsidence or is there a good explanation to it?
An obvious question to ask here is does your source state what proportion of the incoming inmates were men, compared to women for some of these cases? It could be that the ghetto inhabitants were disproportionately female before they got on the train (perhaps a large number of the men had joined the Polish or Soviet military or Partisans before the Jews were rounded up), and knowing what the gender balance was of the original intake would go some way to falsifying or confirming that particular guess.