Language:
English
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Active Voices
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1995) 94-106
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
;
Jewish women in the Holocaust
;
Nazi concentration camps
Abstract:
Examines women's accounts of their Holocaust experiences, especially in the concentration camps. Women's identity as caregivers and homemakers enhanced their likelihood of acclimatizing to the hellish environment into which they were thrown. Women's accounts speak of sadistic violence, separation of families, fear of rape, sexual abuse, amenorrhea and fear of sterility, nakedness, humiliation, filth, incredible deprivations, starvation, forced labor, and resistance. Almost all of the works discussed focus on sisterhood as the sustaining balm of their years in the Holocaust. Essentially, women accustomed to maintaining the family transferred their behavior to the concentration camp, where they created and fought to maintain surrogate families. Brings examples from testimonies and memoirs, mainly by women who were in Auschwitz.
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