Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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First published: October 1, 2025 - Last updated: October 1, 2025

TITLE INFORMATION

Editors: Dorota Glowacka, Regina Mühlhäuser and Michal Aharony

Title: Gender-Based and Sexual Violence during the Holocaust

Subtitle: -

Place: London

Publisher: Routledge

Year: 2024

Pages: 205p.

Series: The Journal of Holocaust Research 38(3-4), Special Issue

pISSN: 2578-5648 - Find a Library: WorldCat | eISSN: 2578-5656 - Find a Library: 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:
- Michal Aharony, Weiss-Livnat International Center for Holocaust Research and Education, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת חֵיפָה (University of Haifa) - Personal Website, Academia.edu

- Dorota Glowacka, Contemporary Studies Program, University of King’s College - ORCID, ResearchGate

- Regina Mühlhäuser: Academia.edu, ORCID

Contents:
  Introduction
  Gender-Based and Sexual Violence in the Holocaust: On the Importance of Writing this History Today (p. 173)
Dorota Glowacka & Regina Mühlhäuser (p. 173)
  Debates
  ‘I Still Struggle to Ensure that I am Truly Listening': Understanding Gender, Sexuality, and Sexual Violence During the Holocaust. A Conversation
Kenny Fries, Dorota Glowacka, Atina Grossmann, Anna Hájková, Björn Krondorfer, Regina Mühlhäuser, Joanna Ostrowska and Zoë Waxman (p. 181)
  Asking About the ‘Unspeakable’: Joan Ringelheim and Early Research on Sexual Violence and Same-Sex Practices among Women During the Holocaust
Carli Snyder (p. 206)
  Barter, Prostitution, Abuse? Reframing Experiences of Sexual Exchange during the Holocaust
Pascale R. Bos (p. 225)
  Constellations
  ‘You are going to be my Bettmann’: Exploitative Sexual Relationships and the Lives of the Pipels in Nazi Concentration Camps
William Ross Jones (p. 253)
  Shultsloze Ferpeynikte Neshomes’ – ‘Vulnerable, Tormented Souls’: Gendered Wounds, Sexualized Violence, and Jewish Masculinity in the Yiddish Testimonies of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Christin Zühlke (p. 273)
  Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Against Romani Women and Girls in Occupied Poland during World War II
Justyna Matkowska (p. 292)
  Silences of Memory: Liberator Sexual Assault in the East at the End of World War II
Daina S. Eglitis (p. 316)
  Dynamics
  Crossing the Threshold of Sexual Violence: Sexual Humiliation and the Practice of Performative Masculinity
Edward B. Westermann (p. 336)
  Visual Pleasures? Wehrmacht Vernacular Trophy Photographs and the Female Other in Nazi-Occupied Europe
Elissa Mailänder (p. 353)

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