[PDF] Women And Holocaust eBook

Author : Dalia Ofer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 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

Author : Andrea Pető
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 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.

Author : Sonja Maria Hedgepeth
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1584659041

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The first book in English to specifically address the sexual violation of Jewish women during the Holocaust

Author : Vera Laska
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 1983-03-29
Category : History
ISBN :

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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

Author : Zoë Waxman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 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.

Author : Zoë Waxman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0199608687

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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 labor 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 : 41,70 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0547863381

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

Author : Carol Rittner
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :

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We hear Olga Lengyel's anguish at discovering that she had unwittingly sent her mother and son to the gas chamber; on recalling the brutality of Irma Griese, a stunningly beautiful SS officer; on witnessing the unspeakable "medical experiments" the Nazis conducted on women. We share Livia F. Britton's memory of hunger and terrible vulnerability as a naked thirteen-year-old at Auschwitz. We learn of the horrific price that Dr. Gisela Perl was forced to pay to save women's lives. Part Two, "Voices of Interpretation," offers the new insights of women scholars of the Holocaust, including evidence that the Nazis specifically preyed on women as the propagators of the Jewish race. Marion A. Kaplan describes the lives of a generation of Jewish women who thought that they were assimilated into German society.

Author : Elizabeth R. Baer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 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.

Author : Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1108472826

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Examines women's life writing in order to shed light on female complicity in the Second World War and the Holocaust.