 At Birkenau, she was assigned to a group of 50 women who were forced by a kapo to knit undershirts for German newborns.She worked hard, and was well thought-of, but when they were asked to knit socks for men, she resisted by making big knots inside the garments so as to render them unusable.In her block in Auschwitz was another detainee that she saw daily, the future politician Simone Veil.