Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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

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Author: Monika J. Flaschka

Title: “And This Was Our Liberation”

Subtitle: Rape of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, the Reevaluation of Liberation, and the Social Power of Rape

In: Shattered Liberation: Sexualized Violence Against Holocaust Survivors, 1943–1946

Edited by: Nina Paulovicova, Anna Cichopek-Gajraj and Joanna Beata Michlic

Place: West Lafayette, IN

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Year: 2025

Pages: 47-71

ISBN-13: 9781626712171 (hbk.) - Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat | ISBN-13: 9781626712188 (pbk.) - Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat | ISBN-13: 9781626712195 (EPUB) - Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat | ISBN-13: 97816267122O1 (PDF) - Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat

Language: English

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



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Contents:
  Introduction (p. 47)
  Wartime Rape (p. 50)
    Soviet Rape (p. 51)
  Liberation Rape (p. 52)
    Military Masculinity (p. 52)
    Rape as Reward (p. 55)
  The Social Power of Rape (p. 57)
    Worse Than the Germans (p. 58)
    Revenge (p. 59)
    Ruined Liberation (p. 60)
  Conclusion (p. 61)
  Epilogue: The Conundrum (p. 62)
  Notes (p. 64)
  Bibliography (p. 69)

Extract: »This chapter will focus only on female victims of rape, although witness testimonies come from both men and women. Given what we know about wartime rape, there is no doubt that men were victims of sexual violence, but there just is not much information about their particular experiences available at the moment. I have viewed most, although not all, of the English-language testimonies about rape by Soviet soldiers available in the USC Shoah Foundation collection, and I have only come across a single testimony that mentions male victims of Soviet rape. I refer to rape by Soviet soldiers or the Red Army, but not by Russians. Of course, a significant number of rapes were committed by those men who would identify as Russian, but there were individuals from a wide geographical area, including but not limited to Russian or Russian-speaking territory, and including soldiers of non-Russian ethnicities.« (Source: Article, p. 48)

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