Author: Miranda Brethour, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University - Academia.edu, ORCID

Contents:

	Seeking Shelter in the General Government: Sexual Violence and the Economy of Rescue (p. 195)
	“You can’t cry, you can’t complain, or else you get thrown outh into the Street”: The Unpredictability of Everyday Life (p. 199)
	“I know he would have raped me, if I had not threatened to scream”: Strategies of Self-Defense and Decision Making (p. 202)
	“I Was punished more for it after the War than before”: Memories of Sexual Violence (p. 204)
	Conclusion (p. 206)
	Aacknowledgments (p. 207)
	Notes (p. 208)
	Bibliography (p. 214)

Extract: »Following the life stories of seventeen survivors recorded in interviews by the University of Southern California Visual History Archive from approximately the early 1990s to mid-2000s, this chapter discusses what survivors’ narratives of sexual violence can tell us about daily life in hiding in occupied Poland, particularly concerning the role of aid-providers and the meaning of agency in this context of extreme vulnerability. Recalling their time in hiding, survivors draw attention to the often indistinguishable boundaries between the roles of perpetrator and rescuer: Gentile hosts committed acts of sexual violence and, at the same time, protected those in hiding from the ghettos and deportation to the death camps. Survivor accounts further challenge the image of hiding as a site of protection, as they recount how the terror posed by the world outside the hiding place—the ghetto, the German and Polish police, for instance—was entangled with fears of the hiding place itself, including the sexual threat posed by helpers.« (Source: Article, p. 194)

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