Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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Start: Topical Index: Sexual Assault: Sexual Violence during the Holocaust:

Types: Sexual Violence during the Holocaust:
SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS

General

I n f o r m a t i o n

»From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (German: Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)


B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Alakus, Baris, et al., eds. Sex-Zwangsarbeit in nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern. Vienna 2006.

[Info] Amesberger, Helga. Die Schwierigkeit zu reden. Die Thematisierung von Zwangssexarbeit in der Lebensgeschichte. Kunst, Kommunikation, Macht. Sechster sterreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag 2003. Edited by Ingrid Bauer et al. Innsbruck 2004: 310-314.

[Info] Amesberger, Helga, et al. Sexualisierte Gewalt. Weibliche Erfahrungen in NS-Konzentrationslagern. Vienna 2004.

[Info] Amesberger, Helga, et al. Sexualisierte Gewalt. Weibliche Erfahrungen in NS-Konzentrationslagern. Mit einem Essay von Elfriede Jelinek. Vienna 2007.

[Info] Amesbergerov , Helga, et al. Sexualizovan n sil . ensk zku enosti z nacistick ch koncnetra?n ch t bor?. Prague 2005.

[Info] Ansch tz, Janet, et al. ... dieses leere Gef hl, und die Blicke der anderen... . Sexuelle Gewalt gegen Frauen. Frauen in Konzentrationslagern: Bergen-Belsen, Ravensbr ck. Edited by Claus F llberg-Stolberg et al. Bremen 1994: 123-133.

[Info] Beer, Susanne. Vom nackten Menschen: H flingsbordelle in NS-Konzentrationslagern 1942 bis 1945. sul serio No. 13 (2008): 35-37.

[Info] Eglitis, Daina S. »Silences of Memory: Liberator Sexual Assault in the East at the End of World War II.« The Journal of Holocaust Research 38 (2024): 316-335.

[Info] Fangrad, Alana. Wartime Rape and Sexual Violence: An Examination of the Perpetrators, Motivations, and Functions of Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust. Bloomington 2013.

[Info] Flaschka, Monika J. "Only Pretty Women were Raped": The Effect of Sexual Violence on Gender Identities in the Concentration Camps Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust. Edited by Sonja M. Hedgepeth et al. Waltham 2010: 77-93.

[Info] Flaschka, Monika J. Sexual Violence: Recovering a Suppressed History. A Companion to the Holocaust. Edited by Simone Gigliotti et al. Chichester 2020: 469-485.

[Info] Jones, William R. »‘You are going to be my Bettmann’: Exploitative Sexual Relationships and the Lives of the Pipels in Nazi Concentration Camps.« The Journal of Holocaust Research 38 (2024): 253-272.

[Info] Kiknadze-Sieland, Nino. Gender Issues and Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust. Master Thesis, Jagiellonian University, 2014.

[Info] R bener, Florian. Erfahrungen von Frauen in Konzentrationslagern anhand ausgesuchter Autobiografien. Alltag, berlebensstrategien und geschlechtsspezifische Besonderheiten weiblicher Lagerinsassen. Magisterarbeit, Universit t Duisburg-Essen, 2013.

[Info] Rudolph, Kira. »Rape and Sexual Abuse Against Women in the Holocaust: Deprived Credibility and Refused Recognition as a Form of Harm.« HARM 2 (2023): 70-83.

[Info] Schneider, Verena. The Negation of Suffering: Forced Sex Labor in Concentration Camp Brothels in Remembrance and Research. War and Sexual Violence: New Perspectives in a New Era. Edited by Sarah K. Danielsson. Paderborn 2019: 131-145.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Camp Brothels: Forced Sex Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps. Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe s Twentieth Century. Edited by Dagmar Herzog. Basingstoke 2009: 168-196.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Sexual Exploitation of Women in Nazi Concentration Camp Brothels. Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust. Edited by Sonja M. Hedgepeth et al. Waltham 2010: 45-60.

[Info] Van Der Meer, Kästle. “When I resisted him, I didn’t know what he’s going to do to me”: Jewish resistance to sexualized violence in Nazi forced labour, concentration, and death camps. M.A. Thesis, University of Victoria, 2022.

[Info] Zinner, Alin B.L. Erzwungene Lust: Literarische Erinnerungen an Sexzwangsarbeit in Konzentrationslagern w hrend des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Literarische Inszenierungen von Geschichte: Formen der Erinnerung in der deutschsprachigen Literatur nach 1945 und 1989. Edited by Manuel Maldonado-Alem n et al. Wiesbaden 2018: 221-230.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Anthony, Elizabeth. Representations of sexual violence in the records of the ITS Digital Archive. Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution. London 2015.

[Info] Halbmayr, Brigitte. Sex-Zwangsarbeit in NS-Konzentrationslagern Fakten, Mythen und Positionen. Zwangsprostitution und Krieg im 20. und beginnenden 21. Jahrhundert. F rstenberg/Havel 2007.

[Info] Hughes, Jessica A. »Forced Sexual Labor: Prostitutes in the Concentration Camp Brothels.« Thirty-Second Annual Conference of the German Studies Association. Saint Paul 2008

[Info] Hughes, Jessica A. Forced Prostitution: Sexual Labor and Resistance in the Concentration Camp Brothels. 11th Biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference. Boca Raton 2010.

[Info] M hlh user, Regina. Allt gliches Verbrechen im Ausnahmezustand? Sexuelle Gewalt im Krieg und Sex-Zwangsarbeit in NS-Konzentrationslagern. Fritz Bauer Institut. Frankfurt/Main 2010.

[Info] M hlh user, Regina. Krieg und Geschlecht: Sexuelle Gewalt im Krieg und Sex-Zwangsarbeit in NS-Konzentrationslagern. Mahn- und Gedenkst tte D sseldorf. D sseldorf 2010.

[Info] Paul, Christa. Zwangsprostitution von M dchen und Frauen im Nationalsozialismus. Zwangsprostitution in Kriegs- und Friedenszeiten Berlin 2004.

[Info] Paul, Christa. Zwangsprostitution staatlich errichtete Bordelle im Nationalsozialismus. Frauengruppe Zumutung RT/T T bingen 2006.

[Info] Schneider, Verena. The negation of Suffering: Forced Sex Labor in Concentration Camp Brothels in Remembrance and Research. Gender, Memory and Genocide: An International Conference Marking 100 Years Since the Armenian Genocide. Berlin 2016.

[Info] Schneider, Verena. The Negation of Suffering: Forced Sex Labor in Remembrance and Research. War and Sexual Violence. New York 2016.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Das KZ-Bordell: Die Bedeutung der Sonderbauten in den nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern. 11. Workshop zur Geschichte der Konzentrationslager. Blaubeuren 2004.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Sex-Zwangsarbeiterinnen im KZ: Untersuchungen zu einer tabuisierten Opfergruppe. Weibliche H ftlinge in NS-Konzentrationslagern. Vienna 2006.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Maskuline Sexualit t und sexuelle Gewalt: Bordellg nger in Konzentrationslagern. Nationalsozialismus und Geschlecht. Berlin 2007.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Warum das Schweigen? Berichte von Opfern, Mith ftlingen und SS-M nnern ber SS-Zwangsarbeit im KZ. Zwangsprostitution und Krieg im 20. und beginnenden 21. Jahrhundert. F rstenberg/Havel 2007.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Brothels in Nazi Concentration Camps. Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies, Boston University. Boston 2009.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Camps Brothels: Sexual Slavery in Nazi Concentration Camps Brown University. Providence 2009.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Lagerbordelle: Sex-Zwangsarbeit in NS-Konzentrationslagern. Historisch-Technisches Museum Peenem nde. Peenem nde 2009.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Camps Brothels: Sexual Slavery in Nazi Concentration Camps. West Chester University. Chester County 2009.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Maskulinit t und sexuelle Ausbeutung: Bordellg nger in Konzentrationslagern. Nationalsozialismus und Geschlecht: Zur Politisierung und sthetisierung von K rper, Rasse und Sexualit t im Dritten Reich und nach 1945. Edited by Elke Frietsch et al. Bielefeld 2009: 156-179.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Forced Prostitution in National Socialist Concentration Camps. Sexual Violence in World War II. Bonn 2010.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Das KZ-Bordell: Sexuelle Zwangsarbeit in nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern. Mahn- und Gedenkst tte Steinwache. Dortmund 2010.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Forced Prostitution in Nazi Concentration Camps. Florida Atlantic University. Boca Raton 2010.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Das KZ-Bordell: Sexuelle Zwangsarbeit in nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslagern. Gedenkst tte Buchenwald. Weimar 2010.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Lagerbordelle: Sex-Zwangsarbeit in NS-Konzentrationslagern. Erich Maria Remarque Friedenszentrum. Osnabr ck 2012.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Lagerbordelle: Sex-Zwangsarbeit in NS-Konzentrationslagern. Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin. Berlin 2013.

[Info] Torres-Kilgannon, Kara. »A footnote in history: Sexual violence against Jewish women in camps during the Holocaust.« Graduate and PhD Student Online Seminar Series on Jewish History, Culture, Heritage, and Memory in Eastern Europe. Virtual 2024.

[Info] Torres-Kilgannon, Kara. »Seeking the Truth: Sexual Violence in Auschwitz and The Role of Interviewers in Gathering Postwar Testimony.« 49th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association. Arlington 2025.

[Info] Van Der Meer, Kästle. »“When I resisted him, I didn’t know what he’s going to do to me”: Jewish resistance to sexualized violence in Nazi forced labour, concentration, and death camps.« nternational Congress on Women in A Global World IV. Hybrid 2024.



Auschwitz

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Auschwitz (German: [ˈaʊ̯ʃvɪts]), also known as Oświęcim (Polish: [ɔˈɕfjɛɲ.t͡ɕim]), was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers, Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labour camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben, and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish question.« -- More information: Wikipedia


B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Bock, Dennis. Literarische St rungen in Texten ber die Shoah: Imre Kert sz, Liana Millu, Ruth Kl ger. Frankfurt/Main 2017.

[Info] Cushman, Sarah M. Sexuality, Sexual Violence, and Sexual Barter in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Women s Camp. Agency and the Holocaust: Essays in Honor of Deb rah Dwork. Edited by Thomas K hne et al. Cham 2020: 105-121.

[Info] Hughes, Jessica R. Forced Prostitution: The Competing and Contested Uses of the Concentration Camp Brothel. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2011.

[Info] Irshai, Ronit. ????? ???? ??????: ???? ?????? ????? ?????? ??"? "???????. AJS Review 40 (2016).

[Info] Svirčev, Žarka. »Women’s Holocaust Narratives in the Yugoslav Jewish Almanac.« A Space of Her Own: Women in the Holocaust. Edited by Dragana Stojanović et al. Belgrade 2025: 151-170.

[Info] Yi, Tan J. Exploring the Kapo-Pipel Relationship: Conditions Facilitating the Sexual Exploitation of Young Jewish Boys in the Concentration Camp. Bachelor Thesis, National University of Singapore, 2021.

[Info] Zühlke, Christin. »‘Shultsloze Ferpeynikte Neshomes’ – ‘Vulnerable, Tormented Souls’: Gendered Wounds, Sexualized Violence, and Jewish Masculinity in the Yiddish Testimonies of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau.« The Journal of Holocaust Research 38 (2024): 273-291.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Gibbs, Charlotte. »“The helpers were the dogs”: Researching Sexual Violence and Non-Human Animals in Auschwitz through Digital Holocaust Archives.« 49th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association. Arlington 2025.

[Info] Saidel, Rochelle. Manya Horowitz s Testimony: Making Sexual Violence Part of Holocaust History. Women and the Holocaust. The Sixth International Conference. Givat Haim Ihud 2013.

[Info] Shik, Na ama. Women s testimonies about sexual violence in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Sexual Violence in the Context of the Holocaust, Genocide and War. Montreal 2018.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Lagerbordelle im KZ-Komplex Auschwitz-Birkenau: Sexuelle Zwangsarbeit im Spannungsfeld der NS- Rassenpolitik und der Bek mpfung von Geschlechtskrankheiten. Hellen Panke. Berlin 2005.

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Forced Prostitution in Concentration Camp at Auschwitz. 41st Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Boston 2009.

[Info] Weseli, Agnieszka. No Statements of their Own: Prisoner and Camp Staff Memories Create a Discourse on Forced Prostitutes in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Women and the Holocaust. The Sixth International Conference. Givat Haim Ihud 2013.

[Info] Weseli, Agnieszka. Excluded from Statements : Creating a discourse on forced prostitutes of KL-Auschwitz-Birkenau by former prisoners and camp staff. Gendered Memories of War and Political Violence. Istanbul 2014.

[Info] Zuehlke, Christin. »Marking Jewish Bodies: Jewish Masculinities during the Holocaust.« 54th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Boston 2022.



Buchenwald

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Buchenwald (German pronunciation: [ˈbuːxn̩valt]; 'beech forest') was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within the Altreich (Old Reich) territories. Many actual or suspected communists were among the first internees.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)


B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Hughes, Jessica R. Forced Prostitution: The Competing and Contested Uses of the Concentration Camp Brothel. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2011.

[Info] Schulz, Christa. Weibliche H ftlinge aus Ravensbr ck in Bordellen der M nnerkonzentrationslager. Frauen in Konzentrationslagern: Bergen-Belsen, Ravensbr ck. Edited by Claus F llberg-Stolberg et al. Bremen 1994: 135-146.

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Dachau

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Dachau (UK: /ˈdæxaʊ/, /-kaʊ/; US: /ˈdɑːxaʊ/, /-kaʊ/; German: [ˈdaxaʊ]) was one of the first[a] concentration camps built by Nazi Germany and the longest-running one, opening on 22 March 1933. The camp was initially intended to intern the Nazi Party's political opponents, which consisted of communists, social democrats, and other dissidents. It was located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory northeast of the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km (10 mi) northwest of Munich in the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany. After its opening by Heinrich Himmler, its purpose was enlarged to include forced labor, and eventually, the imprisonment of Jews, Romani, Germans, and Austrians that the Nazi Party regarded as criminals, and, finally, foreign nationals from countries that Germany occupied or invaded. The Dachau camp system grew to include nearly 100 sub-camps, which were mostly work camps or Arbeitskommandos, and were located throughout southern Germany and Austria. The main camp was liberated by U.S. forces on 29 April 1945. Dachau was the third concentration camp to be liberated by British or American Allied forces.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)


B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Engelhardt, Kerstin. Frauen im Konzentrationslager Dachau. Dachauer Hefte No. 14 (1998): 218-244.

[Info] Hughes, Jessica R. Forced Prostitution: The Competing and Contested Uses of the Concentration Camp Brothel. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2011.

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Flossenbürg

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Flossenbürg was a Nazi concentration camp built in May 1938 by the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office. Unlike other concentration camps, it was located in a remote area, in the Fichtel Mountains of Bavaria, adjacent to the town of Flossenbürg and near the German border with Czechoslovakia. The camp's initial purpose was to exploit the forced labor of prisoners for the production of granite for Nazi architecture. In 1943, the bulk of prisoners switched to producing Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter planes and other armaments for Germany's war effort. Originally intended for German "criminal" and "asocial" prisoners, the camp's numbers swelled with political prisoners from outside Germany and, after Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, Soviet prisoners of war. It also developed an extensive subcamp system that eventually collectively held many more prisoners than the main camp.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)


B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Hughes, Jessica R. Forced Prostitution: The Competing and Contested Uses of the Concentration Camp Brothel. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2011.

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Gusen

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Gusen was a subcamp of Mauthausen concentration camp operated by the SS (Schutzstaffel) between the villages of Sankt Georgen an der Gusen and Langestein in the Reichsgau Ostmark (currently Perg District, Upper Austria). Primarily populated by Polish prisoners, there were also large numbers of Spanish Republicans, Soviet citizens, and Italians. Initially, prisoners worked in nearby quarries, producing granite which was sold by the SS company DEST.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)


B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Hughes, Jessica R. Forced Prostitution: The Competing and Contested Uses of the Concentration Camp Brothel. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2011.

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Mauthausen

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Mauthausen was a Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Linz) in Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)


B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Hughes, Jessica R. Forced Prostitution: The Competing and Contested Uses of the Concentration Camp Brothel. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2011.

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Mittelbau-Dora

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Mittelbau-Dora (also Dora-Mittelbau and Nordhausen-Dora) was a Nazi concentration camp located near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany. It was established in late summer 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, supplying slave labour from many Eastern countries occupied by Germany (including evacuated survivors of eastern extermination camps), for extending the nearby tunnels in the Kohnstein and for manufacturing the V-2 rocket and the V-1 flying bomb. In the summer of 1944, Mittelbau became an independent concentration camp with numerous subcamps of its own. In 1945, most of the surviving inmates were sent on death marches or crammed in trains of box-cars by the SS. On 11 April 1945, US troops freed the remaining prisoners.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)


B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Hughes, Jessica R. Forced Prostitution: The Competing and Contested Uses of the Concentration Camp Brothel. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2011.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Sommer, Robert. Das H ftlingsbordell im Kontext der Wirtschaftsinteressen der SS am Beispiel des KZ-Mittelbau-Dora. 27. Dora-Kolloquium. Nordhausen 2003.



Monowitz

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Monowitz (also known as Monowitz-Buna, Buna and Auschwitz III) was a Nazi concentration camp and labor camp (Arbeitslager) run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from 1942–1945, during World War II and the Holocaust. For most of its existence, Monowitz was a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration camp; from November 1943 it and other Nazi subcamps in the area were jointly known as "Auschwitz III-subcamps" (KL Auschwitz III-Aussenlager). In November 1944 the Germans renamed it Monowitz concentration camp, after the village of Monowice [pl] (German: Monowitz) where it was built, in the annexed portion of Poland. SS Hauptsturmführer (Captain) Heinrich Schwarz was commandant from November 1943 to January 1945.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)


B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Hughes, Jessica R. Forced Prostitution: The Competing and Contested Uses of the Concentration Camp Brothel. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2011.

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Neuengamme

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Neuengamme was a network of Nazi concentration camps in northern Germany that consisted of the main camp, Neuengamme, and more than 85 satellite camps. Established in 1938 near the village of Neuengamme in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, the Neuengamme camp became the largest concentration camp in Northwest Germany. Over 100,000 prisoners came through Neuengamme and its subcamps, 24 of which were for women. The verified death toll is 42,900: 14,000 in the main camp, 12,800 in the subcamps, and 16,100 in the death marches and bombings during the final weeks of World War II. Following Germany's defeat in 1945, the British Army used the site as an internment camp for SS and other Nazi officials. In 1948, the British transferred the land to the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg, which summarily demolished the camp's wooden barracks and built in its stead a prison cell block, converting the former concentration camp site into two state prisons operated by the Hamburg authorities from 1950 to 2004. Following protests by various groups of survivors and allies, the site now serves as a memorial. It is situated 15 km southeast of the centre of Hamburg.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)


B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Hughes, Jessica R. Forced Prostitution: The Competing and Contested Uses of the Concentration Camp Brothel. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2011.

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Ravensbrück

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Ravensbrück (German: [ˌʁaːvn̩sˈbʁʏk]) was a Nazi Germany concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, 90 km (56 mi) north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel). The camp memorial's estimated figure of 132,000 women who were in the camp during the war includes about 48,500 from Poland, 28,000 from the Soviet Union, almost 24,000 from Germany and Austria, nearly 8,000 from France, almost 2,000 from Belgium, and thousands from other countries including a few from the United Kingdom and the United States. More than 20,000 (15 percent) of the total were Jewish. More than 80 percent were political prisoners. Many prisoners were employed as slave laborers by Siemens & Halske. From 1942 to 1945, the Nazis undertook medical experiments on Ravensbrück prisoners to test the effectiveness of sulfonamides.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)


B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Helm, Sarah. If This Is A Woman. Inside Ravensbr ck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women. London 2014.

[Info] Helm, Sarah. Ravensbr ck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women. New York 2014.

[Info] Kennedy, Ellen J. Women and Genocide: Ending Impunity for Sexual Violence. Alleviating World Suffering: The Challenge of Negative Quality of Life. Edited byRonald E. Anderson. Cham 2017: 319-334.

[Info] Schlagdenhauffen-Ma ka, R gis. Promotion de la prostitution et lutte contre l homosexualit dans les camps de concentration nazis. Trajectoires 1 (2007): 60-73.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] McFall, Kelly, et al. Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women. New Books in Genocide Studies (August 1, 2015).



Sachsenhausen

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Sachsenhausen (German pronunciation: [zaksn̩ˈhaʊzn̩]) or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. It mainly held political prisoners throughout World War II. Prominent prisoners included Joseph Stalin's oldest son, Yakov Dzhugashvili; assassin Herschel Grynszpan; Paul Reynaud, the penultimate prime minister of the French Third Republic; Francisco Largo Caballero, prime minister of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War; the wife and children of the crown prince of Bavaria; Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera; and several enemy soldiers and political dissidents.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)


B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Hughes, Jessica R. Forced Prostitution: The Competing and Contested Uses of the Concentration Camp Brothel. Ph.D. Thesis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 2011.

II. Speaker Index

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Treblinka

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Treblinka (Polish: [trɛˈblin.ka]; German: [tʁeˈblɪŋka]) was the second-deadliest extermination camp to be built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, four kilometres (2+1⁄2 miles) south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship. The camp operated between 23 July 1942 and 19 October 1943 as part of Operation Reinhard, the deadliest phase of the Final Solution. During this time, it is estimated that between 700,000 and 900,000 Jews were murdered in its gas chambers, along with 2,000 Romani people. More Jews were murdered at Treblinka than at any other Nazi extermination camp apart from Auschwitz-Birkenau.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)


B i b l i o g r a p h y

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[Info] Stichnothe, Hadassah. Gewalt und Widerstand in j discher Kinder- und Jugendliterature zur Shoah. Cambios y Permanencias 12 (2021): 151-172.

[Info] Stichnothe, Hadassah. Violencia y resistencia en la literatura infantil y juvenil jud a sobre la Shoah. Cambios y Permanencias 12 (2021): 126-150.

II. Speaker Index

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