Women in the Holocaust

Name: Women in the Holocaust
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ISBN: 9780300080803

ISBN-10: 0300080808

ISBN-13: 9780300080803

Edition: 1999

Authors: Dalia Ofer, Lenore J. Weitzman

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As Jews across Europe faced Nazi persecution, Jewish women encountered special problems and had particular vulnerabilities. This book examines women's unique responses to the Holocaust.

Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 8/11/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Introduction: The Role of Gender in the Holocaust




Before the War



Gender and the Jewish Family in Modern Europe




Keeping Calm and Weathering the Storm: Jewish Women's Responses to Daily Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939




The Missing 52 Percent: Research on Jewish Women in Interwar Poland and Its Implications for Holocaust Studies




Women in the Jewish Labor Bund in Interwar Poland




Ordinary Women in Nazi Germany: Perpetrators, Victims, Followers, and Bystanders




Life in the Ghettos



The Grodno Ghetto and Its Underground: A Personal Narrative




The Key Game




The Status and Plight of Women in the Lodz Ghetto




Gender Issues in Diaries and Testimonies of the Ghetto: The Case of Warsaw




Resistance and Rescue



In the Ghetto and in the Resistance: A Personal Narrative




Living on the Aryan Side in Poland: Gender, Passing, and the Nature of Resistance




Women among the Forest Partisans




Women in the French-Jewish Underground: Shield-Bearers of the Resistance?




Gisi Fleischmann




Labor Camps and Concentration Camps



One Year in the Black Hole of Our Planet Earth: A Personal Narrative




Women in the Forced-Labor Camps




Women in Theresienstadt and the Family Camp in Birkenau




Memoirs of Auschwitz Survivors: The Burden of Gender




The Split between Gender and the Holocaust




Gendered Suffering? Women in Holocaust Testimonies




Women in Holocaust Literature: Engendering Trauma Memory



List of Contributors


Index