Women in the Holocaust
Women in the Holocaust

Author: Dalia Ofer

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780300080803

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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

Women in the Holocaust
Women in the Holocaust

Author: Zoë Waxman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-01-26

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0191090700

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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.

Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust
Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust

Author: Vera Laska

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1983-03-29

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13:

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.,."Two major sections deal with the Resistance and with concentration camp life; a shorter final section concerns re-entry into normal life by the survivors...." Library Journal

Women and Holocaust
Women and Holocaust

Author: Andrea Pető

Publisher: Central European University Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 8365573032

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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.

Women's Experiences in the Holocaust
Women's Experiences in the Holocaust

Author: Agnes Grunwald-Spier

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2018-01-15

Total Pages: 659

ISBN-13: 1445671484

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A moving and detailed portrait of women in the most terrible circumstances, by a respected author and Holocaust survivor.

The Nine Hundred
The Nine Hundred

Author: Heather Dune Macadam

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2020-01-23

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1529329337

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'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.

Hitler's Furies
Hitler's Furies

Author: Wendy Lower

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0547863381

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About the participation of German women in World War II and in the Holocaust.

Experience and Expression
Experience and Expression

Author: Elizabeth R. Baer

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2003-02-01

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0814338860

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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.