Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

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

TITLE INFORMATION

Author: Nina Paulovicova

Title: “I Heard a Russian Voice: They Promised Us Girls. There by Holocaust Survivors in Slovakia Are No Bloody Girls Here”

Subtitle: Remembering Sexual(ized) Violence

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: 123-150

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, Slovakian History | Types: Sexual Assault / Sexual Violence during the Holocaust



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Author: Nina Paulovicova, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Athabasca University - Academia.edu, Google Scholar, ORCID, ResearchGate

Contents:
  Introduction (p. 123)
  Sources: Institutional Shaping and Interior Labor of Narrative Construction (p. 126)
  Scholarship Overview: Unpacking Shame and Silence (p. 127)
  Reconstructing Shattered Liberation from Holocaust Survivor’s Memoirs (p. 129)
  Tackling Voids of Sexual(ized) Violence in the Video - Recorced Oral Testimonies (p. 133)
  Mending the Harms of Stigmatization (p. 138)
  Conclusion (p. 140)
  Acknowledgments (p. 141)
  Notes (p. 141)
  Bibliography (p. 146)

Extract: »This chapter is structured as follows. The first part aims to “tune readers” into the grey zone of liberation and explore how survivors recalled liberation and what they revealed about the interactions with liberators. Were survivors indeed silent about sexual(ized) violence? The second part then zooms in on survivors and tackles voids, “a conceptual oubliette” of sexual(ized) violence in memory as a result of exogenous and endogenous factors. Here, drawing on two case studies, I first highlight how interviewers’ interventions contributed to silencing survivors’ recollections of sexual(ized) violence, illustrating an example of an exogenous factor. Second, I focus on an example of an endogenous factor, in particular victims’ screening of memories concerning liberation rape, to challenge the scholarly perpetuation of victims’ stigmatization. In the last section, I reflect on how to move away from stigmatization to “dignification” of survivors subjected to liberation rape and suggest possible pathways to breaking the cycle of the harmful perpetuation of stigma.« (Source: Article, p. 125)

Wikipedia: History of Europe: History of Russia / History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953) | History of Europe: History of Slovakia / Slovak Republic (1939–1945) | Genocide: The Holocaust / The Holocaust in Slovakia, Sexual violence during the Holocaust | Sex and the law: Wartime sexual violence / Sexual violence in World War II | War: World War II / Soviet war crimes