Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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First published: March 1, 2026 - Last updated: March 1, 2026

TITLE INFORMATION

Editors: Helga Amesberger, Helga Embacher and Johannes-Dieter Steinert

Title: I haven’t even told my mother

Subtitle: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath

Place: Salzburg

Publisher: Edition Tandem

Year: 2025

Pages: 144pp.

ISBN-13: 9783903516144 - Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat

Language: English

Keywords: Modern History: 20th Century | European History: German History | Types: Sexual Assault / Sexual Violence during the Holocaust



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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Editors:
- Helga Amesberger: Wikipedia

- Helga Embacher, Fachbereich Geschichte (Department of History), Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg) -

- Johannes-Dieter Steinert, Department for History, Politics & War Studies, University of Wolverhampton - ORCID

Contents:
  Introduction (p. 7)
  Monika J. Flaschka
He no longer deserves the right to wear the uniform of a German soldier: Child abuse and the creation of the German soldier, 1933–1945 (p. 19)
  Yaakov Ariel
The pain that did not speak its name: Sexualized violence on children during the Holocaust years (p. 37)
  Sara R. Horowitz
Unsettled accounts: Sexualized memories of child survivors in the Shoah (p. 51)
  William Ross Jones
Sexual violence against male children and adolescents in the concentration camps (p. 9)
  Jonathan Lanz
I behaved like a careful virgin: Male recollections of sexualized violence in Birkenau and Mauthausen (p. 91)
  Denisa Nešťáková
Our little ones were raped: Child sexual abuse in Sereď camp (p. 107)
  Johannes-Dieter Steinert
He raped me again and again: Jewish forced child laborers as victims of sexual and sexualized violence (p. 123)
  Joey Rauschenberger
Forced sterilization of underage Sinti and the struggle for compensation (p. 141)
  Verena Meier
Forced sterilization of underage Sinti: (Non-)recognition as Victims of Fascism and their role in the judicial prosecution of medical professionals in East Germany after 1945 (p. 159)
  Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan
Revolutionizing testimony that preserves the memory of child sexual exploitation during the Holocaust (p. 179)
  Biographies (p. 199)

Description: »Die deutschen Kriegsverbrechen, die Shoa und der Genozid an den europäischen Sinti und Roma sind seit langem Gegenstand intensiver historischer Forschung. Ebenso rückt mittlerweile sexualisierte Gewalt gegenüber Frauen vermehrt in den Fokus. Kaum erforscht ist hingegen das Ausmaß der sexuellen und sexualisierten Gewalt, die Kinder durch Täter:innen vor und unmittelbar nach der Befreiung erleiden mussten. Der Sammelband geht auf eine Konferenz zurück, die im Sommer 2023 an der Universität Salzburg mit Teilnehmer:innen aus Deutschland, Großbritannien, Israel, Kanada, Österreich, der Ukraine und den USA durchgeführt wurde. Die Ergebnisse sind empörend, beschämend und erschreckend.« (Source: Edition Tandem)

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