Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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Start: Topical Index: Types: Sexual Assault:

Types: Sexual Assault:
SEXUAL VIOLENCE DURING THE HOLOCAUST

I n f o r m a t i o n

»During World War II, some Jewish men and women in concentration camps faced sexual violence, due to wartime discrimination, antisemitism, and genocidal conditions among other reasons. This discrimination happened both inside concentration camps run by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime and also outside of the camps. This sexual violence and discrimination happened not only in Germany but throughout Europe in areas that the Germans occupied during the war. Outside of concentration camps, sexual violence happened in many places, including but not limited to Jewish people's homes, Jewish hiding spaces, in public, and at killing sites.« -- More information: Wikipedia


T o p i c a l   I n d e x

Prosecution: Trials | Types: Forced Abortion, Forced Prostitution, Forced Sterilization | Offenders: Groups: German Offenders | Victims: Groups: Jewish Victims, Belarusian Victims, Polish Victims, Romani Victims, Russian Victims | Places: Concentration Camps, Ghettos, Hiding | Testimonies: Narratives | Representations: Art, Films, Literature


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

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I. Author Index

[Info] Alpert, Jessica. »Muted Testimony: Rape and Gendered Violence of the Holocaust.« Proteus 20 (2003): 64-68.

[Info] Amesberger, Helga, et al. »Nazi Differentiations Mattered: Ideological Intersections of Sexualized Violence During National Socialist Persecution.« Life, Death and Sacrifice: Women and Family in the Holocaust. Edited by Esther Hertzog. Jerusalem 2008: 181-196.

[Info] Baldwin, Annabelle. »Sexual Violence and the Holocaust: Reflections on Memory and Witness Testimony.« Holocaust Studies 16 (2010): 112-134.

[Info] Bergen, Doris L. »Sexual violence in the Holocaust. Unique and typical?« Lessons and legacies. Vol. 7. Edited by Dagmar Herzog. Evanston 2006: 179-200.

[Info] Bergen, Doris L., et al. »Buried Words: A Forum on sexuality, violence and Holocaust testimonies.« Holocaust Studies (May 15, 2021).

[Info] Bos, Pascale R. »“Her flesh is branded: ‘For Officers Only’”. Imagining and Imagined Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust.« Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World. Edited by Hilary Earl et al. Evanston 2014: 59-85.

[Info] Chalmers, Beverley. Birth, Sex and Abuse: Women’s Voices Under Nazi Rule. Guildford 2015.

[Info] Chatwood, Kirsty. »(Re)-interpreting stories of sexual violence. The multiple testimonies of Lucille Eichengreen.« Life, death and sacrifice. Women and family in the Holocaust. Edited by Esther Hertzog. Jerusalem 2008.

[Info] Chatwood, Kirsty. »Schillinger and the Dancer: Representing Agency and Sexual Violence in Holocaust Testimonies.« Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust. Edited by Sonja M. Hedgepeth et al. Waltham 2010: 61-74.

[Info] Corazza, Stephanie. »Introduction to Buried Words: Sexuality, violence and Holocaust testimonies.« Holocaust Studies (May 15, 2021).

[Info] Dror, Esther, et al. »The shame is always there.« Sexual violence against Jewish women during the Holocaust. Edited by Sonja M. Hedgepeth et al. Waltham 2010.

[Info] Earl, Hilary, et al., eds. Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World. Evanston 2014.

[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] Fogelman, Eva. »Sexual abuse of Jewish women during and after the Holocaust. A psychological perspective.« Sexual violence against Jewish women during the Holocaust. Edited by Sonja M. Hedgepeth et al. Waltham 2010.

[Info] Glowacka, Dorota. »Sexual Violence against Men and Boys during the Holocaust: A Genealogy of (Not-So-Silent) Silence.« German History (May 23, 2020).

[Info] Goldenberg, Myrna. »Sex, Rape, and Survival: Jewish Women and the Holocaust.« Women and the Holocaust (2005).

[Info] Halbmayr, Brigitte. »Sexualized Violence and Forced Prostitution in National Socialism: Jewish Women and the Holocaust.« Women and the Holocaust (2004).

[Info] Halbmayr, Brigitte. »Sexualized Violence against Women during Nazi "Racial" Persecution.« Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust. Edited by Sonja M. Hedgepeth et al. Waltham 2010: 29-44.

[Info] Hedgepeth, Sonja M., et al., eds. Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust. Waltham 2010.

[Info] Katz, Steven T. »Thoughts on the Intersection of Rape and Rassenchande during the Holocaust.« Modern Judaism 32 (2012): 293-322.

[Info] Leonhard, Claudia. Das Unaussprechliche in Worte fassen. Eine vergleichende Analyse schriftlicher und mündlicher Selbstzeugnisse von weiblichen Überlebenden des Holocaust. Kassel 2013.

[Info] Levenkron, Nomi. »Death and the Maidens: "Prostitution," Rape, and Sexual Slavery during World War II.« Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust. Edited by Sonja M. Hedgepeth et al. Waltham 2010: 13-28.

[Info] Mühlhäuser, Regina. »Understanding Sexual Violence during the Holocaust: A Reconsideration of Research and Sources.« German History (July 1, 2020).

[Info] Ringelheim, Joan M. »The unethical and the unspeakable. Women and the Holocaust.« Simon Wiesenthal Center annual 1 (1984): 69-87.

[Info] Ross, Alecia M. Criminalizing Sexual Violence in the Holocaust: The Rise of Rape Studies after Yugoslavia and Rwanda. M.A. Thesis, Lamar University, 2020.

[Info] Waxman, Zoë. »Testimony and Silence: Sexual Violence and the Holocaust.« Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation. Edited by Sorcha Gunne et al. New York 2010: 117-129.

[Info] Waxman, Zoë. Women in the Holocaust: A Feminist History. Oxford 2017.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Bos, Pascale. »The Problem of the Sources: Some Examples related to the Holocaust.« War and Sexual Violence. New York 2016.

[Info] Dror, Esther, et al. »“I didn’t know what he was doing to me?”.« Women and the Holocaust. The Sixth International Conference. Givat Haim Ihud 2013.

[Info] Flaschka, Monika J. »"And this was our liberation": Rape of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, the Reevaluation of Liberation, and the Social Meaning of Rape.« 11th Biennial Lessons and Legacies Conference. Boca Raton 2010.

[Info] Fogelman, Eva. »Psychological Consequences of Sexual Abuse during and following the Holocaust.« 42nd Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies. Boston 2010.

[Info] Grisard, Dominique. »Pink Triangle: Sexual Violence, "Homocaust," and LGBT Historiography.« Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference of the German Studies Association. Denver 2013.

[Info] Hushion, Stacy. »Silence and Noise: Re-evaluating the Role of Sexual Violence in the Holocaust.« Tenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History. Urbana-Champaign 2009.

[Info] Jinks, Rebecca, et al. »Breaking the Silence: Gender and Genocide.« The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide. London 2017.

[Info] Kiwanuka, Nam, et al. »Womanhood in Nazi Germany.« The Agenda in the Summer. TVO 2017.

[Info] Murray, Jennifer. »Mengele's Twins, Ravenbruck's Rabbits, and the Myriad Abuses against Women during the Holocaust.« 52nd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Virtual 2021.

[Info] Sinnreich, Helene. »Rape and the Holocaust.« 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Boca Raton 2005.

[Info] Sinnreich, Helene. »Violence and Sexualities: The History of Rape during the Holocaust.« Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory. Williamsburg 2006.

[Info] Waxman, Zoë. »Testimony and Silence: Sexual Violence and the Holocaust.« Women Writing Rape: Literary and Theoretical Narratives of Sexual Violence. Warwick 2007.

[Info] Waxman, Zoë. »Testimony and Silence: Sexual Violence and the Holocaust.« Les viols en temps de guerre: une histoire à écrire - Rape in Wartime: A History to be Written. Paris 2009.