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Hebrew Calendar addition
While imprisoned in Auschwitz, self-identifying Jews made every effort to observe Jewish tradition in the camps, despite the monumental dangers in doing so. The Hebrew calendar, which is a tradition with great importance to Jews was particularly dangerous since no tools of telling of time, such as watches and calendars were permitted in the camps. The keeping of a Hebrew calendar was a rarity amongst prisoners and there are only two known surviving calendars that were made in Auschwitz, both of which were made by women. Before this, the tradition of making a Hebrew calendar was greatly assumed to be the job of a man in Jewish society.

Auschwitz addition
In "Life in the camps" under created sub-section "Jewish tradition in the camps"

Self-identifying Jews made every effort to observe Jewish tradition in the camps, despite the monumental dangers in doing so since no tools of telling of time, such as watches and calendars were permitted in the camps. However, one area of observance that Jews held important was the keeping of Hebrew calendar. The tradition of the calendar was not only key in the upkeep of a Jew's social life but also their family lives. It was used to know when the holy holidays were, the Sabbath, and the Torah portions read at every Sabbath. Although there are two Jewish calendars that were made in Auschwitz and survived after the end of the war, they were a rare amongst prisoners. This forced many prisoners to keep track of the days since their imprisonment by asking the newest prisoners of the world outside of Auschwitz. Despite this limited access to information, many Jews in the camps had the holidays memorized and many survivors report that they were aware of when it was a major Jewish holiday. This small connection and awareness of an aspect of their previous realities slightly belittled the hopeless and sorrow that was life in Auschwitz for the Jews. In the camps it was known that being in possession of a Jewish calendar, let alone making one from scratch, was a very dangerous task. However, it is believed that the woman who made one of the surviving calendars was helped by Agudat Yisrael girls that were also imprisoned. This small religious tradition of the Jewish calendar gave those Jews who were able to have access to it a small comfort during these gruesome and dark days.

Article Evaluation

 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Everything is related to the article topic. There are many subsections but all of them are about Auschwitz. Nothing distracted me.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * No information is out of date to my knowledge. There's nothing about Jewish time while in Auschwitz so I'm planning to add that under the subtopic called "Life in the camps"
 * What else could be improved?
 * The article has more information on Auschwitz than I personally know so from my point of view there isn't much to improve besides adding the section about Jewish time.
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * The article seems very neutral and doesn't sway towards one particular position. It presents a lot of facts instead of opinion.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * No.
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * Many of citations come from printed books so I can't check them but the few that are from websites seem to support claims made in the article.
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Yes, all the facts have references. Again, I can't check how reliable all of them are but the website sources seem neutral.

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