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Abstract: »In contrast to the two previous chapters, DENISA NEŠŤÁKOVÁ concentrates on female victims. ‘Child sexual abuse in Sereď camp’ examines a rare criminal investigation of child sexual abuse by an inmate in the labor camp Sereď for Jews in Slovakia in 1944. Based on the police and legal proceedings in which both victims and the perpetrator of the sexual abuse were Jewish, this case sheds light on children’s experience and raises questions about sexual exploitation of Jewish children, the agency of their parents, and communal norms in Sereď camp and beyond. NEŠŤÁKOVÁ then shows the limited, yet powerful, response of parents of violated children, the continuity of the old legal structures enabling a fair legal proceeding in contrast to the Slovak antisemitic laws then in force, and the lawlessness of the Sereď camp.« (Source: Helga Amesberger, Helga Embacher, Johannes-Dieter Steinert. »Introduction: Ideological Intersection of Sexualized Violence during Nazi Persecution.« I haven’t even told my mother: Children as victims of sexual and sexualised violence in the Second World War and its aftermath. Edited by Helga Amesberger et al. Salzburg 2025: 14)

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