Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
32 (2004) 397-432
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish women in the Holocaust
Abstract:
A study of responses of Jewish women in Poland to the Nazi occupation, based on memoirs, diaries, and ghetto archives. Women were often left on their own because their husbands had been killed or had fled to the USSR. Based on experiences in World War I, many Jews thought that women and children would not be harmed; and, indeed, they did suffer less than men in the early stage of the Nazi occupation. Many women became the main providers for their families. Lower- and middle-class women were generally more successful at this task. There was a radical change in the lives of the women with ghettoization, which brought on equally brutal treatment of men, women, and children.
Note:
In Hebrew:
,
"יד ושם; קובץ מחקרים" לב (תשסד) 325-352
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