Author : Agnes Grunwald-Spier
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445671484
A moving and detailed portrait of women in the most terrible circumstances, by a respected author and Holocaust survivor.
Author : Dalia Ofer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300080803
Introduction : the role of gender in the Holocaust / Lenore J. Weitzman and Dalia Ofer -- Gender and the Jewish family in modern Europe / Paula E. Hyman -- Keeping calm and weathering the storm : Jewish women's responses to daily life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 / Marion Kaplan -- The missing 52 percent : research on Jewish women in interwar Poland and its implications for Holocaust studies / Gershon Bacon -- Women in the Jewish labor bund in interwar Poland / Daniel Blatman -- Ordinary women in Nazi Germany : perpetrators, victims, followers, and bystanders / Gisela Bock -- The Grodno Ghetto and its underground : a personal narrative / Liza Chapnik -- The key game / Ida Fink -- 5050
Author : Elizabeth R. Baer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0814338860
The introduction provides a thorough overview of the current status of research in the field, and each essay seeks to push the theoretical boundaries that shape our understanding of women’s experience and agency during the Holocaust and of the ways in which they have expressed their memories.
Author : Zoë Waxman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0191090700
Despite some pioneering work by scholars, historians still find it hard to listen to the voices of women in the Holocaust. Learning more about the women who both survived and did not survive the Nazi genocide — through the testimony of the women themselves — not only increases our understanding of this terrible period in history, but makes us rethink our relationship to the gendered nature of knowledge itself. Women in the Holocaust is about the ways in which socially- and culturally-constructed gender roles were placed under extreme pressure; yet also about the fact that gender continued to operate as an important arbiter of experience. Indeed, paradoxically enough, the extreme conditions of the Holocaust — even of the death camps — may have reinforced the importance of gender. Whilst Jewish men and women were both sentenced to death, gender nevertheless operated as a crucial signifier for survival. Pregnant women as well as women accompanied by young children or those deemed incapable of hard labour were sent straight to the gas chambers. The very qualities which made them women were manipulated and exploited by the Nazis as a source of dehumanization. Moreover, women were less likely to survive the camps even if they were not selected for death. Gender in the Holocaust therefore became a matter of life and death.
Author : Wendy Lower
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0547863381
About the participation of German women in World War II and in the Holocaust.
Author : Sonja Maria Hedgepeth
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1584659041
The first book in English to specifically address the sexual violation of Jewish women during the Holocaust
Author : Andrea Pető
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8365573032
Women and Holocaust: New Perspectives and Challenges expands the existing scholarship on women and the Holocaust adopting current approaches to gender studies and focusing on the texts and context from Central-Eastern Europe. The authors complicate earlier approaches by considering the intersections of gender, region, nationa, and sexuality, often within specifically delineated national settings, including the Czech/German, Hungarian, Hungarian/Austrian, Lithuanian, Polish/Israeli, Romanian/US-American, and Slovak. In these essays, the communist regimes after WWII often provide a productive framework for studying women and the Holocaust. This truly international volume features contributions by eminent authors, including pioneers in the field, as well as upcoming literary scholars and historians who delve into previously unmapped archives, explore cinematic representations and digital testimonies.
Author : Nechama Tec
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300105193
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Author : Gabriele Herz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845450779
The Nazi regime opened its first concentration camps within weeks of coming to power, but with the exception of Dachau the history of these early, improvised camps and their inmates is not yet widely known. Gabriele Herz's memoir, published for the first time, is a unique record of a Jewish woman's detention in the first women's concentration camp in Moringen (housed in part of an old-established workhouse), at a time when most other inmates were communists or Jehovah's Witnesses. This original translation of her wry and perceptive memoir is accompanied by an extensive introduction that sets Herz's experience in the history both of political detention under the Nazi regime and of the German workhouse system.
Author : Heather Dune Macadam
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1529329337
'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline Moorehead On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager to report for government service. Instead, the young women-many of them teenagers-were sent to Auschwitz. Their government paid 500 Reichsmarks (about £160) apiece for the Nazis to take them as slave labour. Of those 999 innocent deportees, only a few would survive. The facts of the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz are little known, yet profoundly relevant today. These were not resistance fighters or prisoners of war. There were no men among them. Sent to almost certain death, the young women were powerless and insignificant not only because they were Jewish-but also because they were female. Now, acclaimed author Heather Dune Macadam reveals their poignant stories, drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, and consulting with historians, witnesses, and relatives of those first deportees to create an important addition to Holocaust literature and women's history.
