Authors:
- Daina Eglitis, Department of Sociology, George Washington University - ResearchGate

- Michelle Kelso, Department of Sociology, George Washington University

Abstract: »This chapter examines gendered violence in the ghettos and camps under the control of Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust in Eastern Europe. It focuses on ghettos and camps in Latvia, Lithuania, and Romanian-controlled Transnistria, a part of occupied Ukraine. We discuss sexual violence, including the rape of Jewish and Roma girls and women, but expand the definition of gendered violence to encompass coercive phenomena that targeted prisoners both as members of targeted ethnic groups and as women. The purpose of this chapter is to construct a narrative, using women’s experiences as witnesses, victims, resistors, and survivors that may be obscured in accounts that universalize the violent and deadly experiences of the ghettos and camps during a genocide. We highlight the spectrum of gendered violence, including sexual violence and bodily humiliation, coerced abortions and sterilization, and child killing. The chapter asks: What do Jewish and Romani survivor and witness accounts tell us about women’s experiences in ghettos and camps in the Baltics and Transnistria? How is gendered violence remembered and recounted in survivor accounts? What do women’s accounts and experiences of imprisonment and violence contribute to our historical understanding of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe?« (Source: Springer Nature Link)

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Wikipedia: History of Europe: History of Germany / Nazi Germany | History of Europe: History of Latvia / German occupation of Latvia during World War II | History of Europe: History of Lithuania / German occupation of Lithuania during World War II | History of Europe: History of Ukraine / Transnistria Governorate | Genocide: The Holocaust / Sexual violence during the Holocaust | Ghetto: Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany / Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Lithuania | Sex and the law: Rape